The 9 Highest-Paying W-2 PA Jobs Right Now
The 9 Highest-Paying W-2 PA Jobs Right Now
Three cardiothoracic surgery roles. Three dermatology. Two orthopedics. That is the entire board ā€” and it tells you exactly what I've been saying for years.
There's a moment in my book I still think about.
I was working 60 to 80 hours a week. Full-time job plus four per diem positions, stacked highest-hourly-first like a puzzle. I was earning a lot of money and missing a lot of life.
Then a mentor rewrote a role that hadn't been publicly posted yet. Different schedule. New procedural competencies required. And a salary so much higher that I would earn more in one year at that single job than I had earned at my full-time job and all the per diem work combined.
Combined.
That was the day I understood the thing I'd been getting wrong. My income problem was never a volume problem. It was a positioning problem.
I was working...
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Kristin Burton
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Kristin Burton is a pulmonary/critical care PA and founder of Millionaires in Medicine. She paid off $161,000 in student loan debt in 16 months, and then went on to become a millionaire at 31.
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