Who deserves a higher salary: A soldier, or a doctor?

i never understood why soldiers get crappy pay.:?Punjabiking101

Easily replaceable, basically. Sounds rather callous, but that's the way supply and demand works.

That's not to say I don't think they deserve better pay, of course.

Private Military Contractors. Those fine, brave, mercenaries.Hoobinator

I think a soldier deserves more salary. The drama of watching your friends die, and the unforgivable guilt of killing someone, is much more demanding than being a doctor. Not to mention the likeliness of a soldier being killed in combat. How many doctors do you hear of on the news being killed on the job.

[QUOTE="Funky_Llama"][QUOTE="Legendaryscmt"]

Engineer does do a lot of work though, so can't forget him.

Lief_Ericson

Pyro's can get heat exhaustion or accidently burn themselves maybe they should get a raise too for those nasty medical bills

Definitly doctors, what the point of going through medical school if your not going to get good pay.

soldiers are in dangerous areas fighting for the protection of this country and doctors are in a room telling whats wrong with you and make u wait along time.

soldiers i would think

Definitly doctors, what the point of going through medical school if your not going to get good pay.

alphamale1989

Not if you're a solider working for Blackwater.

And this is another interesting Blackwater cost comparison:

An unmarried sergeant given Iraq pay and relief from U.S. taxes makes about $83 to $85 a day, given time in service. A married sergeant with children makes about double that, $170 a day.

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Baghdad overseeing more than 160,000 U.S. troops, makes roughly $180,000 a year, or about $493 a day. That comes out to less than half the fee charged by Blackwater for its senior manager of a 34-man security team.

hmm never really thought about it before but I'm going with the doctor simply because it takes a lot more intelligence to be a doctor. There are a lot of doctors who could go be a soldier but how many soldiers could turn around and be a doctor?

also good job this topic it has just as much controversy as a religion thread but its original.

Doctor. After spending years learning to be a doctor they then have to pay for all their loans from medical school. Besides they're saving lives not killing.artichoke

Definitly doctors, what the point of going through medical school if your not going to get good pay.

[QUOTE="artichoke"]Doctor. After spending years learning to be a doctor they then have to pay for all their loans from medical school. Besides they're saving lives not killing.Serraph105

I like how everyone just implicitly assumes without any question that the soldier must be working for the "forces" of good. Yep he saves lives just like the Doctor. Erm, wait a minute that's not necessarily a given. The reasons as it has been said before why a soldier gets paid less is because he is disposable, a piece of cannon fodder to those who wish to wage war. The ones who want it are never on the front lines waging it.

The Doctors job is to save lives, that's what everything he does entails. There is no such memorandum of understanding with a soldier, he does whatever his superiors tell him, good or bad. Rescue baby orphans, or blow an innocent village to shreds, he either does it or faces court marshall.

The value of a doctor is worth far more than a soldier for a variety of reasons, which I can't be bothered to list. The irony of all this is that a PMC will get paid far more than a top doctor and soldier combined with far less work and responsibility, and he's not as accountable. Yay for modern madness.

*Hoobinator telling it as it is, yet again*

A person who takes a life shouldn't be paid at all.Honenheim

[QUOTE="Honenheim"]A person who takes a life shouldn't be paid at all.UT_Wrestler

Doctors, for sure. The work they do is much more important than what anyone else does.Bloodbath_87

Is it? well if it weren't for the Armed Forces there would be no doctors so your logic fails right there. Secondly there are many more important jobs than doctors, in my experience doctors are useless for the most part they just prescribe antibiotics like they are candy.UrbanSpartan125

I didn't know the armed forces created doctors? And wouldn't there be doctors as part of the armed forces anyway what with them treating wounded soldiers? So if all there was were armed forces there would be doctors and if there were no armed forces or those willing to fight around the world, then doctors would naturally still be around treating people during peace time without a threat to their lives? In which case your argument about there being no doctors without armed forces kind of fails. Because doctors never originated with the military and would be around regardless of wars or armies anyway?

Anyway you're right, I thank the brave Russian and Chinese soldiers who fight for the protection of modern day doctors in their countries and around the world from evil out of control rogue regimes? You guys are the best.

Intense physcial labor against intense mental labor.Legendaryscmt

[QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"][QUOTE="Honenheim"]A person who takes a life shouldn't be paid at all.Honenheim

Think of it this way. There would be no American doctors if there was no American Soldiers to defend our landbrickdoctor

If you took that to its logical extreme, then you'd be paying soldiers more than any other job on the planet... and given that there are over a million of them in the American armed forces alone, that'd kinda require rather strong tax increases to pay for them all.

[QUOTE="UrbanSpartan125"]Is it? well if it weren't for the Armed Forces there would be no doctors so your logic fails right there. Secondly there are many more important jobs than doctors, in my experience doctors are useless for the most part they just prescribe antibiotics like they are candy.Hoobinator

I didn't know the armed forces created doctors? And wouldn't there be doctors as part of the armed forces anyway what with them treating wounded soldiers? So if all there was were armed forces there would be doctors and if there were no armed forces or those willing to fight around the world, then doctors would naturally still be around treating people during peace time without a threat to their lives? In which case your argument about there being no doctors without armed forces kind of fails. Because doctors never originated with the military and would be around regardless of wars or armies anyway?

Anyway you're right, I thank the brave Russian and Chinese soldiers who fight for the protection of modern day doctors in their countries and around the world from evil out of control rogue regimes? You guys are the best.

[QUOTE="UT_Wrestler"][QUOTE="Honenheim"]A person who takes a life shouldn't be paid at all.Honenheim

As the person above me said, There would be no American Doctors, without American Armed foces. We would be taken over by another country and the doctors in this country would have no way to defend themselves against and enemy threat. Thus doctors are useless without the Armed foces.UrbanSpartan125

Doctors, of course. Am i the only one in a country where military forces are not treated like saviours?joao_22990

[QUOTE="UrbanSpartan125"] As the person above me said, There would be no American Doctors, without American Armed foces. We would be taken over by another country and the doctors in this country would have no way to defend themselves against and enemy threat. Thus doctors are useless without the Armed foces.Hoobinator

[QUOTE="joao_22990"]Doctors, of course. Am i the only one in a country where military forces are not treated like saviours?Hoobinator

Yes but why would a doctor from the US want to treat enemy combatants and others who have just invaded our nation, although this is even required for US medics now to treat enemy combatants, an invasion would be different. And just because he is a soldier doesnt mean they dont have a career ahead of them, many people in the military are there for 4 years on average and then move on to a career in which they like. Just because someone is in the military doesnt mean they are killing machines, they have families and they have careers.UrbanSpartan125

A soldier, could it be more vague?

Are you referring to a private, or what?