The chart below shows the annual pay (thousands of US dollars) for doctors and other workers in seven countries in 2004.

The bar chart compares seven countries in terms of annual salaries for doctors and other professionals, in thousands of USD, in the year 2004.

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, doctors in each of these nations were paid considerably more than other

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, with the largest pay gap recorded in the US. It is

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clear that American

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earned more than their European counterparts regardless of their job. As for doctors’ remuneration, the US was the top payer at $120,000 in 2004, followed far behind by France and Switzerland at about $70,000 each. The earnings of these professionals in Italy, the Czech Republic and Germany were close ($60,000),

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their Finnish colleagues were paid only $50,000 in the same year.

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, the figures for other jobs were much lower.

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various other

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in the US were paid only about a third of doctors’ salary in the country (around $43,000),

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was still higher than in the European countries. The second-ranked Switzerland showed a figure of exactly $40,000 – twice the earnings in Italy, the Czech Republic and Germany. French and Finnish

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earned even less than the Swiss, with their salaries at approximately $25,000 in the former and $30,000 in the latter.