Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, August 9, 2023

  • Just in case you weren’t, trash pickup rates in Mineral Wells will rise from $21.53 to $22.16.
  • This was an interesting article to read – The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why?
    • By accounting for all streams of income, they revealed that doctors make more than anyone thought — and more than any other occupation we’ve measured. In the prime earning years of 40 to 55, the average physician made $405,000 in 2017 — almost all of it (94 percent) from wages. Doctors in the top 10 percent averaged $1.3 million. And those in the top 1 percent averaged an astounding $4 million, though most of that (85 percent) came from business income or capital gains.
    • In certain specialties, doctors see substantially more in their peak earning years: Neurosurgeons (about $920,000), orthopedic surgeons ($789,000) and radiation oncologists ($709,000) all did especially well for themselves. 
    • “In general, U.S. physicians are making about 50 percent more than German physicians and about more than twice as much as U.K. physicians,”
  • Until yesterday, I did not know that Cincinnati and Indianapolis were so close to each other. It’s less than a two-hour drive. I never thought about it before, but from a football perspective, I’m guessing the Bengals and Colts are rivals. Both teams are in the AFC, but not in the same division, though they should be because of their proximity to each other. It would make for a great division rivalry.
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