A long time ago I was working for a small company in a niche industry. I represented 50% of the sales team and between me and my coworker, we balanced and managed a company making millions of dollars a year in sales revenue. Despite the herculean efforts between myself and my other coworker, we both took home a meager salary and made peanuts to the dollar. How is it normal that companies– even small ones –can finagle their team out of money that they're earning simply because of their title?
Although every child growing up believes that doctor's are considered inherently successful, doctors are not immune to the effects of corporate greed. The higher ups, even in a hospital, seek to scrape a little off the top of every employees salary and despite doing all of the leg work, doctors and nurses often get the short end of the stick when it comes to their pay.
However, there is a way to combat penny-pinching managers, especially when you have the leverage to take your skills elsewhere. Scroll onward to read more about our next story, where a doctor gets denied a raise that would make his pay equivalent to others in his field, but uses the loss as an ultimate win, bringing home 3x the salary with a new company.
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