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Posted on 8/27/25 at 7:28 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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Is $300K still a lot of money these days?
Depends where you live and what your lifestyle and expectations are.
The person in the OP lives in New Mexico and is young and single. So, yes that’s a lot.
It’s also basically a guaranteed salary, so much different than a business owner or commission-based career, that could make way more or less, depending on business conditions.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 7:29 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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Feels good man
it does, sometimes hard to keep perspective...luckily we have this place for that
Posted on 8/27/25 at 8:34 am to redchaser
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I got the 100k from the same place almost everybody on this forum pulls stuff. My arse of course. I did see sofaking post earlier that average salary for a CAA is $140k, if that’s average benchmark it there. Still a good savings.
After the increased costs of compliance with an S corp, not really, if any at all
Posted on 8/27/25 at 8:43 am to SmackoverHawg
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The top end is significantly lower in every specialty I know of and you're having to work harder to get it.
You doctors keep saying this, but how many radiologists were making over $1 mil in the 90s and 2000s and how many Anesthesiologists were making more in the 90s and 2000s than they are today?
Maybe the Avg clinical doc is doing worse but it sure seems like the docs that want to and know how to make money, can do pretty damn well today.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 8:53 am to baldona
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Maybe the Avg clinical doc is doing worse but it sure seems like the docs that want to and know how to make money, can do pretty damn well today.
Primary care is actually doing better than ever before.
Radiologists are doing way more work than they used to for a similar amount. More studies being ordered at lower reimbursement.
Neurosurgery still kills it financially but they work like dogs.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:43 am to Mingo Was His NameO
There was varying levels to the travel contracts. I’ve personally seen possibly thousands of them at this point.. This article shows a girl making $300k. Excellent, that’s great and probably on the upper middle end of the spectrum. It is an absolute fact that there are hundreds of CRNA travel contracts that pay $100-150k per 3 month stints. I’ve seen them they are there. The locations and hospitals are terrible but, as I said, if you want to grind these contracts, a half million is attainable.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:57 am to LSUDVM1999
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This is the way.
so she has 8 years of school, is 1099 with little in the way of benefits, never sleeps in her own home daily and works insane hours? all while having 124k in student loans
i mean Im all for going to school but would you say
going to work on a rig in some shite hole country while working your arse off working 80+ hours a week knocking down 300k is the way too? i mean zero debt
look CRNA is a great job, but stop acting like this particular case is the way please.
how long is she going to do this? she didnt start until 26 and had 123k in student loans. she has no company match on 401k, doesnt have helath insurance(these gigs are 1099), she has no chance of a normal family life doing this etc
this is cool to do until you are 30 to get the loans paid off but you better be ready to settle down quickly and start a family if you have any hope of having one.
why not go for a stem degree in state somewhere, graduate at 22/23 with minimal dept and by the time you are 30 have a family knocking down 125-150k with full benefits?
most of you bash people taking out 100k plus in loans and now suddenly....this is the way? wtf
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:07 am to lsu777
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look CRNA
She isn’t a CRNA, but anyway.
Your point is why I don’t do locums as a physician. There are some crazy locums contracts out there for doctors, but I like be in my own house at night.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:10 am to GeauxTigers123
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She isn’t a CRNA, but anyway.
my bad, i thought thats what some others said.
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Your point is why I don’t do locums as a physician. There are some crazy locums contracts out there for doctors, but I like be in my own house at night.
kind of
i was more pointing out the hypocrisy of the OT. They would bash taking out 124k in loans any other time.
most dont even realize she had to go to school for 8 years. they think it was some bachelors or associates degree. they dont factor in the OT, they dont factor in the per diem, they dont factor in here being a 1099(most posters dont even know what that means) etc etc
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:16 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Not sure about that, my S Corp compliance is costing me about $2,500 a year with my CPA and is resulting in net savings with a considerably smaller amount of revenue vs what she is making. If the S Corp had a lot of employees on payroll etc, I could certainly see those cost going up, but for what is essentially a 1 person company it isn't that bad.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:25 am to Mingo Was His NameO
I wonder how much she writes off in terms of mileage and other allowable expenses.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:26 am to LSUDVM1999
She get's it.
Minimal investment in an educational path that bring the highest return on investment.
In a time where young people are spending decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars on education and degrees that have little to zero return on investment, she is a breath of fresh air.
She will make an excellent wife if she is not already married.
Minimal investment in an educational path that bring the highest return on investment.
In a time where young people are spending decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars on education and degrees that have little to zero return on investment, she is a breath of fresh air.
She will make an excellent wife if she is not already married.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:30 am to Snipe
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Minimal investment in an educational path
so 8 years and 124k in student loan debt and having to travel to BFE, living in a different place every 6 months and be a 1099 employee is
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the highest return on investment
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In a time where young people are spending decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars on education
thats exactly what she did.....well 80% of a decade
and how many students do you think have hundreds of thousands in debt? here is a hint, the median for student loan debt upon graduation with a bachelors is under 30k
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she is a breath of fresh air.
oh so boss bitches who travel all over the country doing the travel nurse gig are a breath of fresh air?
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She will make an excellent wife if she is not already married.
:rotflmao: yea who doesnt love a wife who is gone 8-9 months a year, they usually make amazing partners and mothers. :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:32 am to LSUDVM1999
I wonder if she has any time to spend that money though.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:35 am to TigerTatorTots
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It is an absolute fact that there are hundreds of CRNA travel contracts that pay $100-150k per 3 month stints.
True, but this is not isolated to CRNAs, damn near every locum pays… CRNA, NP, Hospital administration for similar rates.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:36 am to TigerTatorTots
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This article shows a girl making $300k. Excellent, that’s great and probably on the upper middle end of the spectrum. It is an absolute fact that there are hundreds of CRNA travel contracts that pay $100-150k per 3 month stints. I’ve seen them they are there. The locations and hospitals are terrible but, as I said, if you want to grind these contracts, a half million is attainable.
When my sister travel nursed prior to Covid, it seemed most of the travel nursing gigs were in the crappy areas of the country. Using common sense, it would seem its general places people don't want to work so they have to overpay for a "traveling" employee.
Oakland, Spokane, Fairbanks, etc. is where my sister worked. Some of that was to a degree by choice as she enjoyed seeing different parts of the country.
ETA: But this is NM in the OP. Makes sense they have to pay a lot in the shittier areas of the state
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 10:37 am
Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:39 am to Snipe
You can make great money in Eagle pass or Brownsville but you’ll also work at one of the most sued hospitals while doing it… there is a reason why these contracts pay so much.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 11:00 am to bengalbait
quote:The gal is 25, no student loan debt, making over $250g's a year, investing and saving heavily for her future. She's sitting pretty and she will still have a well-paying job when she chooses to settle down and raise a family.
Also, you have to consider the amount of student loan debt she saved by not going the MD route. In this day and age it's significant.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 11:09 am to lsu777
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so 8 years
I’m not super familiar with this degree she has but I don’t think it takes 8 years.
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