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One unmentioned upside to being a doctor is you make a good salary anywhere in the country. A GP can make $180K in a town where an engineer would be lucky to make $40K, if any engineering jobs existed at all. PAs are mostly in the same boat but top out around $90K. Nurses are usually in demand in most places but the pay can be lousy. Every other well paying job is very location dependent.

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Also, one thing I forgot to add, is that PA school is very expensive.

For example, at the University of North Dakota, the PA school tuition is $34,287 per year, with no discount to in-state residents. In contrast, the medical school tuition is $24,998 per year for out of state students, and $12,815 for in-state students.

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