The given bar chart illustrates the average salaries per year of doctors and other workers in seven nations in 2004.
In general, it is clear that the pay of doctors registered the highest position compared to other professions in the countries surveyed. Additionally, both doctors and non-doctor occupations of the United States were paid salaries which outnumbered the figure for the others.
Regarding the jobs’ annual pay in the United States, the remuneration medical professionals received was $120.000 in 2004, exceeding that of Italian doctors by a ratio of 2 to 1. Relatively similar to earnings for them in Italy, those in the Czech Republic and Germany accounted for the same proportion, each at just over $60.000. Besides, there was a similarity in the figures for other occupations’ payings among three distinct areas named Italy, the Czech Republic and Germany, which were less than a third of the salaries of doctors in these three countries ( roughly $20.000). Moreover, workers in Italy and the Czech Republic were earners, paid the lowest earnings among those in other countries, while other American professions’ salaries were the highest, at more than $40.000.
In comparison with health professionals’ pay in France and Switzerland, demonstrating an equal share ($70.000), that in Finland was around $20.000 less than the former. In addition, it could be observed that the salaries of French non-doctors professions differ from that of Swiss ones by approximately $10.000, standing at $30.000 and $40.000, respectively. Furthermore, there is a slight disparity between the remuneration of other Finnish workers and that of its German counterpart, with the former being $5.000 higher than the latter.