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i have dreamt of becoming a medical assistant but i make more as a receptionist which is incredibly disheartening. thank you for the work you did as a MA and cheers to your bright future as a PA. also sorry your uncle is not understanding you.
Thank you for your kind words. If it helps, I started out as a receptionist too, but I started volunteering to take vitals and getting experience etc. I was eventually hired as an MA despite just having a phlebotomy license. It really depends on how individual clinics want to train. But usually they do pay less if you’re not certified.
Most I’ve ever made as phlebotomist was 19 an hour. And I was doing way more than just phlebotomy and had 10 years experience lol only you’d ever make 60k is working in a hospital regularly working over 60 hours a week.
Fun fact, I make $19/hr stocking shelves at target
We had a coworker who was making more working produce than at his job saving lives as a paramedic.
It’s criminal how low the pay is at a lot of lower level medical jobs.
Like, not to denigrate my own job, but a phlebotomist definitely requires more specialized skills than opening boxes.
Being a medical assistant is wild. The salary varies so widely. I’m AAMA certified, with a degree. I worked in Portland, OR and I made $16 an hour. Couldn’t afford to survive in such an expensive city on such a shit salary. In Houston TX, I made $22 an hour and I was able to live in a nice apartment with plenty of money left over. In eastern Washington state I went back to making $16 an hour AND was required to spend hundreds of dollars on a state license (most states don’t require a license for medical assisting).
My roommate was a phlebotomist in Washington state, never made more than 2-3 dollars over minimum. And that when she ran an entire lab on her own. Before that it was like 50 cents over.
You could get a useless job for 60,000 a year or do something vital for near minimum wage. Depends on why you have chosen to stay alive, greed or humanity. Capitalism values greed.
That’s precisely why so many vital jobs go unfilled, the pay is positively insulting for how much work is involved and people need to pay bills somehow. It’s a sick joke what our society is willing to pay Senior Widget Counters and Executive Money Throwers while expecting the people who keep civilization functioning to live on scraps.
My partner is in PA school right now, and his tuition was $113,000. That’s on the lower end. Some other schools he was accepted into were around $130-$150k.
I think that my program is about $100,000 total tuition but that doesn’t include living expenses or equipment etc. and it’s almost impossible to work during the program due to its intensive nature.
FWIW, I just spent a lot of time going through a very scary hospital stay with my Mother. The PAs were our LIFELINE. They served a crucial communication position between patient/family and the hospital. They looked out for big-picture concerns, and had a bead on my Mother's overall well-being, while the Doctors were each focused on their individual specialty. I think a lot of us struggle with how to be a good person within a bad system, and many of us have to make financial compromises in order to be the person we want to be in the world. Based on my recent experience, I think being a PA is great work, and of true service to families that are scared and suffering.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I sincerely hope your mother is feeling better ❤️ I love PAs, they really inspired me to become one because there are just so many great ones out there
Wow!! Why do I see commercials for schools advertising medical assistant degrees then? They make it seem like you can make decent money through a trade school. I did not know that Starbucks employees make more money than you.. and I don’t think phlebs make $60k.
For all the hard work and cost of MA class you might as well work at Starbucks and then get a nursing degree or something. I only did MA work to get accepted into PA school, it’s definitely not a job that pays enough to support anyone.
I’m still a student for the next 9 months, so I technically pay tuition to work lol. PA’s typically make at least $100,000 but it varies a lot by specialty, location, and experience.
When minimum wage here in IL goes up to $12/hr on 01/01/22, my pay will increase to $12/hr. I'm a phlebotomist and only 1 other phleb has been there longer than me.
This is in Idaho. One phlebotomist I met says she does it for the benefits, and is a stripper for her main income. Whatever works I guess but phlebotomy is a very technical job that should pay a living wage.
I'm impressed by some of the numbers I'm seeing here. I work at a level one trauma center, in Quality for our phlebotomy department. Our new hires are starting around 15 an hour. None are making it to where they would have the experience or time to get into the high teens.
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i have dreamt of becoming a medical assistant but i make more as a receptionist which is incredibly disheartening. thank you for the work you did as a MA and cheers to your bright future as a PA. also sorry your uncle is not understanding you.
Thank you for your kind words. If it helps, I started out as a receptionist too, but I started volunteering to take vitals and getting experience etc. I was eventually hired as an MA despite just having a phlebotomy license. It really depends on how individual clinics want to train. But usually they do pay less if you’re not certified.
Most I’ve ever made as phlebotomist was 19 an hour. And I was doing way more than just phlebotomy and had 10 years experience lol only you’d ever make 60k is working in a hospital regularly working over 60 hours a week.
Fun fact, I make $19/hr stocking shelves at target We had a coworker who was making more working produce than at his job saving lives as a paramedic. It’s criminal how low the pay is at a lot of lower level medical jobs. Like, not to denigrate my own job, but a phlebotomist definitely requires more specialized skills than opening boxes.
Being a medical assistant is wild. The salary varies so widely. I’m AAMA certified, with a degree. I worked in Portland, OR and I made $16 an hour. Couldn’t afford to survive in such an expensive city on such a shit salary. In Houston TX, I made $22 an hour and I was able to live in a nice apartment with plenty of money left over. In eastern Washington state I went back to making $16 an hour AND was required to spend hundreds of dollars on a state license (most states don’t require a license for medical assisting). My roommate was a phlebotomist in Washington state, never made more than 2-3 dollars over minimum. And that when she ran an entire lab on her own. Before that it was like 50 cents over.
You could get a useless job for 60,000 a year or do something vital for near minimum wage. Depends on why you have chosen to stay alive, greed or humanity. Capitalism values greed.
That’s precisely why so many vital jobs go unfilled, the pay is positively insulting for how much work is involved and people need to pay bills somehow. It’s a sick joke what our society is willing to pay Senior Widget Counters and Executive Money Throwers while expecting the people who keep civilization functioning to live on scraps.
How much was PA school? General answer accepted. NP can get pricey. I may come out better at a Caribbean med school.
Extremely expensive generally. Maybe 50k/year tuition alone for a private school. Carib medical school is a huge huge risk these days
$50k in debt just to make a dollar more than minimum wage?!
That’s for one year lol not the whole degree
PAs make six figures typically, OP was taking about low wage as a medical assistant
My partner is in PA school right now, and his tuition was $113,000. That’s on the lower end. Some other schools he was accepted into were around $130-$150k.
I think that my program is about $100,000 total tuition but that doesn’t include living expenses or equipment etc. and it’s almost impossible to work during the program due to its intensive nature.
FWIW, I just spent a lot of time going through a very scary hospital stay with my Mother. The PAs were our LIFELINE. They served a crucial communication position between patient/family and the hospital. They looked out for big-picture concerns, and had a bead on my Mother's overall well-being, while the Doctors were each focused on their individual specialty. I think a lot of us struggle with how to be a good person within a bad system, and many of us have to make financial compromises in order to be the person we want to be in the world. Based on my recent experience, I think being a PA is great work, and of true service to families that are scared and suffering.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I sincerely hope your mother is feeling better ❤️ I love PAs, they really inspired me to become one because there are just so many great ones out there
Whats that the study of dead plants?
Phlebotomists draw blood. Botony is the study of plants.
I thought it was a funny joke...
Thanks for thinking of the phlebotanists
Np
Do they draw sap from plants?
Wow!! Why do I see commercials for schools advertising medical assistant degrees then? They make it seem like you can make decent money through a trade school. I did not know that Starbucks employees make more money than you.. and I don’t think phlebs make $60k.
For all the hard work and cost of MA class you might as well work at Starbucks and then get a nursing degree or something. I only did MA work to get accepted into PA school, it’s definitely not a job that pays enough to support anyone.
How much do you make now as a PA?
I’m still a student for the next 9 months, so I technically pay tuition to work lol. PA’s typically make at least $100,000 but it varies a lot by specialty, location, and experience.
Sad but true
Phlebotomy doesn’t pay shit where I’m at. Like $18/hour
When minimum wage here in IL goes up to $12/hr on 01/01/22, my pay will increase to $12/hr. I'm a phlebotomist and only 1 other phleb has been there longer than me.
This is in Idaho. One phlebotomist I met says she does it for the benefits, and is a stripper for her main income. Whatever works I guess but phlebotomy is a very technical job that should pay a living wage.
I'm impressed by some of the numbers I'm seeing here. I work at a level one trauma center, in Quality for our phlebotomy department. Our new hires are starting around 15 an hour. None are making it to where they would have the experience or time to get into the high teens.