Doctors' Incomes

From the U.S. Department of Commerce's Survey of Current Business doctors learned last week that:

> The net income of U.S. doctors has increased 73.9% in the last decade; they grossed more than a billion dollars in 1941, netted $640 million--almost their 1929 net income. But the number of doctors in practice had increased by over 10,000. The doctors' average income was still below what it was in 1929.

> Half the doctors netted less than $3,912 in 1941; 23% earned less than $2,400; 1.3% operated at a loss; 12.8% earned over $10,000 and one doctor in a thousand earned $40,000 to $50,000.

> Highest average incomes are in cities from 100,000 to 150,000 population. In cities larger than that, the average falls off; e.g., the average income of New York City's doctors (popularly supposed to be the best paid in the world) is less than that in other cities of more than 500,000 population and less than the $5,179 which the Commerce Department figures the average U.S. doctor netted in 1941.

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