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How much are Canada's fee-for-service
doctors earning?
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chart credit:Adapted from the
CIHI report Average Payment per Physician Report,
Fee-for-Service Physicians in Canada, 2004-2005
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The nasty battle between Quebec's
specialists and the government over pay parity is finally
over. The two camps agreed — just in time for Christmas
— to put their differences aside, get in the holiday
spirit and set a timetable for binding arbitration to
end the seven month long dispute. The province said
it will repeal the so-called Special Bill that had forced
a paltry pay raise on the specialists. The new deal
will provide a 15% raise over the next seven years.
The specialists have agreed to cease their pressure
tactics and go back to teaching.
An end-of-year report on Canadian
physician earnings from the Canadian Institute for Health
Information (see below) reveals what the fight was about.
Quebec physicians came in dead last with overall fee-for-service
earnings of $185,751 — a mere pittance compared
to top-dog Saskatchewan's whopping $277,930.
Quebec's specialists had initially
asked for a 44% raise over four years, then lowered
their demand to 28%. The apparently final 15% wage increase
will still leave Quebec specialists with the lowest
average pay in Canada, by a lot.
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