If the latest annual GP Earnings and Expenses 2013/14 report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre is anything to go by, the average income for salaried GPs (a mix of full and part time salaried GPs) in the UK was £54,600 in 2013/14 compared with £56,400 in 2012/13, representing a decrease of 3.3%.
While this sounds alarming, there is in fact a simple explanation as to how these figures were collected:
“The majority of salaried GPs have a combination of self-employment and employment income. Therefore the average total income before tax is based on medical income from self-employment sources and all employment income. The total expenses figure for salaried GPs will also be based on an average total of self-employment and employment data.”
And accompanying data suggests that more salaried GPs were earning more money in the middle pay bands, and slightly fewer earners in the higher pay bands.
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Year,12-13,13-14
20k-30k, 770, 890
30k-40k, 1210, 1340
40k50k, 1320, 1550
50k-60k, 1360, 1500
60k-70k, 1230, 1190
70k-80k, 750, 700
80k-90k, 440, 410
90-100k, 300, 300
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All of which suggests that salaried GPs are choosing to spend less time in clinical practice and, since it’s not clear if other non-clinical roles outside the practice have been considered, perhaps are working in other roles such as appraisers or commissioning roles.
GP partners’ pay fell by 1.4% to £96,000 before employers’ superannuation costs were taken into account, having decreased every year since a peak of £110,000 in 2005/06.
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