Band 6+: The chart below shows the annual pay (thousands of US dollars) for doctors and other workers in seven countries in 2004. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The provided chart presents data regarding the average yearly salary of doctors and that of other professions in seven nations during the year 2004.

Overall, it is clear that doctors had higher annual earnings than other workers across all the countries surveyed. Of the seven countries, the United States showed the highest remuneration for both doctors and other occupations.

For doctors in the United States, the typical annual earning was 145 thousand US dollars, the highest figure presented in the chart. This was followed by Germany, Switzerland and Canada, where doctors’ average pay ranged from around 105 to 115 thousand dollars per year. Doctors’ yearly salaries in the remaining countries all stood below 100 thousand dollars, with the Czech Republic at the bottom position.

Regarding annual pay in other occupations, the United States and Switzerland ranked the highest, as annual salaries in these places exceeded 40 thousand dollars, still not nearly as high as the aforementioned doctors’ pay. Canada, Finland, France and Germany showed remarkably similar yearly earnings in jobs other than doctors, at exactly 30 thousand dollars on average. Among them, Finland stood out as the country with the least drastic difference between doctors’ salaries and those of other workers. Finally, the Czech Republic continued to have the lowest pay for its labor, barely reaching 20 thousand dollars per year.