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Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Hassanmaye(m): 4:24am On Oct 19, 2025
Commentor:
He fails to explain how much he spends on his studio flat.
No matter how he spend I don't care, I just want to leave this country
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Hassanmaye(m): 4:25am On Oct 19, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.
Unfortunately all this media rants won't stop the youths from japa
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Hassanmaye(m): 4:28am On Oct 19, 2025
grandstar:
You have a point but what the doctor may be earning in the UK is nothing to write home about.

I have been to the UK. It seems what he is earning may not be more than £2,000 a month which is lamentable.
shocked shocked
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by planetx: 4:46am On Oct 19, 2025
Sometimes it's also about patriotism and love for your people, Nigerian doctors will never be paid on the same level like an American or British doctor, so if because of that all the doctors leave who is going to take care of the medical needs of 200 million Nigerians. The oyinbos you are running to their country, their doctors will never leave their fellow oyinbos in large numbers to die because of money, there are things that are of greater importance than money despite the importance of money.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by 66uvie: 5:48am On Oct 19, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.

......
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by 66uvie: 5:50am On Oct 19, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.
.....who is this the we that build houses in Nigeria, how many people can afford to build houses in Nigeria and on which salary?
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by 66uvie: 5:53am On Oct 19, 2025
shox:
at least bandits won’t march him out into the bush at night.

Peace over tinubu
....and he can drive around without visiting kazeem every time to fix his shock absorbers.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by adonainana: 6:07am On Oct 19, 2025
tegrianonigltd:
I am a data engineer with a company here, I do not need to hustle like thief.


UK HAS 3m plus millionaires in dollars
Nigeria has 8100 millionaires in dollars (add all the illegal and thief politicians, crooked men of God) 50k or 100k

Not up to 10 percent of Uk

Uk has 177 billionaires and Nigeria 4

Uk population 60m+
Nigeria population 220m+


Do the maths.


If you like remain for Nigeria.

If you like dey hustle like thief for Nigeria, dey find one big man to connect you.

Over here, you can be somebody without knowing anybody.
Over here you do not need anyone to buy job
Over here they employ on merits.

Over here you can apply for loan to start your business from the comfort of your home, you can apply for a credit card to run your business, you can get products on loan and trade.

You don’t need to beg anyone, if you have good credit score, the sky is a starting point.

Men are doing numbers, You dey follow newcomers mouth. They enter system wey dey work, they need to adjust.
As a data engineer doing well how much money do you have in your savings

Let’s start from there first

Let’s leave millionaire and billionaire in the different countries alone

Let’s start from there first

Take a screenshot of how much you have in your savings all the years you have been data engineering
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by adonainana: 6:10am On Oct 19, 2025
tegrianonigltd:
uk has over 3m people who are millionaires in dollars,

Nigeria has 8100, add all the thieves who are politicians and pastors, add all the rest thieves, 100k, them no reach uk 10%

In a population ratio of 60m+ to 220m+

Uk has over 175 billionaires in dollars and Nigeria 4

London is the 2nd financial capital of the world slightly behind New York.




Read that again.
So all the billionaires in the uk did 9-5 to make

Rat race claiming the fat cat is the financial district

What else are you meant to say

Uk has billionaires are you one of them

Uk has millionaires are you one of them

What distorted argument are you making
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by 66uvie: 6:11am On Oct 19, 2025
Jakarta:
Ogbeni close your dirty mouth and call a spade by its name. How can a medical doctor be earning 185k a month? Even if his tax bills are high at least he is enjoying what he paying for. Is the price of energy cheap here, I'm paying 209.50 for a unit on band A yet I've spent 175k fueling my generator. I once visited a general Hospital, and I saw people sleeping outside on tents, no power. Only 1 doctor attending to over 18 patients in a ward. Folks like you are taking this country backward due to your blinded support.
.....my brother the thing weak me, they will asay people pay too much taxes in the UK, but at least we see what the taxes are used for, fire services, Police services, Road repairs, free education etc, the last time I checked the school fees for Baze University in Abuja run into millions, to set up a good solar system is millions, and if you don't live in a secure estate with armed security guards then you sleep with one eye close or try doing tourism in the outskirts of Zamfara or Kogi/Kwara axis then I suppose you have nine lives.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 6:13am On Oct 19, 2025
kennethesan:
Tell us about the work load not just the money... Exchange rate is a current key factor
Hospital work is busy work. Even in the UK.

Even as a GP, your workload would be as busy as Nigerian one. You not only have to see patients, you have to even full out forms and documentations for each patient. And you can be at work till late

Don't even get me to talk about emergency room and even normal hospital work.

Many UK doctors flee to Australia because better work life balance .
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Shantyken(m): 6:20am On Oct 19, 2025
Jakarta:
Ogbeni close your dirty mouth and call a spade by its name. How can a medical doctor be earning 185k a month? Even if his tax bills are high at least he is enjoying what he paying for. Is the price of energy cheap here, I'm paying 209.50 for a unit on band A yet I've spent 175k fueling my generator. I once visited a general Hospital, and I saw people sleeping outside on tents, no power. Only 1 doctor attending to over 18 patients in a ward. Folks like you are taking this country backward due to your blinded support.
Trash, even my younger brother that graduated last 3 years dey earn 450k. Other benefits no follow. That aside make that guy post his monthly expenses from the his earning
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by 66uvie: 6:51am On Oct 19, 2025
[quote author=goslowgoslow post=137172174]Who says? Go and check the rate of kidnapping in the UK. [/quote...I have checked and Google says kidnapping is not common in the UK, I have lived in the UK for over thirty years and never heard of mass kidnapping, or highway robbery, what is common in the UK is phone snatching, burglary in opulent areas and high end car theft, however, if you are insured you will get a replacement car immediately.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by VeeVeeMyLuv(f): 6:52am On Oct 19, 2025
nairalanda1:
The reason why the UK can afford to pay premium salaries by Nigerian standards for it's doctors is because they spend 248bn pounds on healthcare, and a large.chunk of that money comes from taxation of almost every brit. And that's income tax.

As a Nigerian doc, I would love it if Nigeria paid me the kind of salary UK pays it's doctors, but I also have to be effing realistic. If Nigeria paid doctors 2-4 million naira monthly, the healthcare budget would need to either go up to something like 60 trillion or more naira , or hospital fees go up drastically.

The fact is , anyway, Nigerian doctors are getting ripped off because government, including this tinubu one, have not done what needs to be done to make pir economy as prosperous as the UK, and that is manufactured goods and services
Dey deceive yourself
You think if they were reckless and irresponsible

They would be so organized to be able to pay their doctors like that?

Why do you guys like defending rubbish here ? For how long? Right now almost every worker is underpaid whether private or public sector due to the twin effect of devaluation and subsidy removal policy compared to other parts of the world .

And on top of that they still want this same people to pay the tax and prices for goods and services that developed country pay, using devalued , purchasing power destroyed naira.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by VeeVeeMyLuv(f): 7:00am On Oct 19, 2025
nairalanda1:
Most Nigerians want to live the good life of saner climes without realizing that you pay heavily on taxes for that good life

UK funds doctors salaries with national income tax . That's how they fund their NHS which employs most doctors there. If tinubu or anyone of our past leaders passed laws that charged UK tax rates in nigeria,there would be a coup and a popular revolution, which even his diehard supporters will support

Nigerians don't trust their government. Which they are right not to do so, because corruption and bad leadership. But as a result people are susceptible to flawed populist economics that promise goodies without an idea of how they would be paid for
If they were doing this from a genuine heart
People would buy into it wholeheartedly, knowing that govt like (Uncle Sam in United States) got their back. They would pay the taxes.

And within a short time Nigeria will turnaround, transform , flourish prosper, peace will return, they would now be able to drive again peacefully at night or be able to enter the bush peacefully to explore.

But what we have are very unrepentant hardened recalcitrant dubious characters.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 7:05am On Oct 19, 2025
VeeVeeMyLuv:
If they were doing this from a genuine heart
People would buy into it wholeheartedly, knowing that govt like (Uncle Sam in United States) got their back. They would pay the taxes.

And within a short time Nigeria will turnaround, transform , flourish prosper, peace will return, they would now be able to drive again peacefully at night or be able to enter the bush peacefully to explore.

But what we have are very unrepentant hardened recalcitrant dubious characters.
The problem with your view is that it essentially states that people should not hold their government to account and also that things can be gotten for free.

You think the UK government is somehow free of evil? It is the way it is because people did the hard work of holding their government to account.

Here in Nigeria we don't do that.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by VeeVeeMyLuv(f): 7:10am On Oct 19, 2025
66uvie:
.....my brother the thing weak me, they will asay people pay too much taxes in the UK, but at least we see what the taxes are used for, fire services, Police services, Road repairs, free education etc, the last time I checked the school fees for Baze University in Abuja run into millions, to set up a good solar system is millions, and if you don't live in a secure estate with armed security guards then you sleep with one eye close or try doing tourism in the outskirts of Zamfara or Kogi/Kwara axis then I suppose you have nine lives.
Leave them o, make them continu
Nigerians just like to deceive themselves
They like to console themselves in their misery

They are in romantic love affair with their oppressors.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 7:11am On Oct 19, 2025
VeeVeeMyLuv:
Dey deceive yourself
You think if they were reckless and irresponsible

They would be so organized to be able to pay their doctors like that?

Why do you guys like defending rubbish here ? For how long? Right now almost every worker is underpaid whether private or public sector due to the twin effect of devaluation and subsidy removal policy compared to other parts of the world .

And on top of that they still want this same people to pay the tax and prices for goods and services that developed country pay, using devalued , purchasing power destroyed naira.
In other words you are assuming that we can provide the same kind of service that the UK provides for 275 billion pounds in Nigeria where our health budget is a measly 1-2 billion pounds and our budget is half of what the UK spends on policing

You are also wrong to assume I am excusing or supporting bad government. My beef with apc has been their failure to even diversify the economy and to fight corruption. So please disabuse yourself of the idea that I am supporting apc. It is even an indictment of apc that our country is not prosperous and powerful under their rule.

But to return to the topic, if we want UK level , we should pay at UK level or vote government that would make our economy dependent on innovation and industrialization or both. And we should fight corruption as well. Only fogithing corruption does not make our health care budget sufficient.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Judolisco(m): 7:11am On Oct 19, 2025
Zonefree:





,

So, how was he able to save about 18Million Naira to move to UK since his monthly income was just N185,000.

Abi e dey thief? undecided
baba na even lamba.... He said no hospital paid him above 185k... Pure lie
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by VeeVeeMyLuv(f): 7:26am On Oct 19, 2025
nairalanda1:
In other words you are assuming that we can provide the same kind of service that the UK provides for 275 billion pounds in Nigeria where our health budget is a measly 1-2 billion pounds and our budget is half of what the UK spends on policing

You are also wrong to assume I am excusing or supporting bad government. My beef with apc has been their failure to even diversify the economy and to fight corruption. So please disabuse yourself of the idea that I am supporting apc. It is even an indictment of apc that our country is not prosperous and powerful under their rule.

But to return to the topic, if we want UK level , we should pay at UK level or vote government that would make our economy dependent on innovation and industrialization or both. And we should fight corruption as well. Only fogithing corruption does not make our health care budget sufficient.
Okay so what do you want Nigerians to do?
Shebi they say God bless Nigeria with abundant human and natural resources? So why is it in this state? Why are they not harnessing these? They don't need to do much , just a little sincere effort and the seed will blossom into a tree just like the magic OBJ did with telecoms sector. But do we have? They lack sincerity! See how they mess up ABP in Agric sector under PMB. A good program fa.

It wasn't this bad under GEJ that they lampooned and lambasted so much. Though I have to admit that insecurity was just as bad and so pronounced under his regime, those enemy of state terrorist were hitting major capital cities of states even federal capital with bombs!


Why we can't follow China example is beyond me. If I tell you they were once worse than us would you believe? Now that money they borrowed in the past is now chicken change to them

They are now lending to many nations (such as Nigeria)!
See their govt policy deliberately to developed the human capacity of the people.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by tete7000(m): 7:33am On Oct 19, 2025
After converting his earnings in UK (where he spends in pounds) to naira?
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Successsearch90(m): 7:48am On Oct 19, 2025
Commentor:
He fails to explain how much he spends on his studio flat.
lols. U Don get am
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by nairalanda1(m): 7:51am On Oct 19, 2025
VeeVeeMyLuv:
Okay so what do you want Nigerians to do?
Shebi they say God bless Nigeria with abundant human and natural resources? So why is it in this state? Why are they not harnessing these? They don't need to do much , just a little sincere effort and the seed will blossom into a tree just like the magic OBJ did with telecoms sector. But do we have? They lack sincerity! See how they mess up ABP in Agric sector under PMB. A good program fa.

It wasn't this bad under GEJ that they lampooned and lambasted so much. Though I have to admit that insecurity was just as bad and so pronounced under his regime, those enemy of state terrorist were hitting major capital cities of states even federal capital with bombs!


Why we can't follow China example is beyond me. If I tell you they were once worse than us would you believe? Now that money they borrowed in the past is now chicken change to them

They are now lending to many nations (such as Nigeria)!
See their govt policy deliberately to developed the human capacity of the people.
Face realism.

Unless you want us to take more loans to guarantee UK level of health?

We can also.do the alternative..Vote apc out, vote a new government that would.make.nigeria productive in

We can do revolution, it won't change the fact of our poor income
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Iamzik: 7:53am On Oct 19, 2025
WhizdomXX:
Nobody even asks how much they use to get education over here. There should be a temporary ban on medical professionals leaving the country. You can't get subsidized education and go on to insult the same country by going to where they spend over 1000% on the same education to work.
Oya nau tell your Tinubu to ban them. APC supporters with their mumu reasoning sha... You support wicked leaders to destroy the country yet you want to chain everybody down

The world is a global village. Skilled manpower will gravitate to where they are rewarded and appreciated
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Successsearch90(m): 7:53am On Oct 19, 2025
EvilMerodack:
I used to think all medical doctors are smart, guess I'm wrong

Thank God I've never visited any hospital for medical attention in my entire life, but if I would have to now, I'd need to test the doctor's intelligence first.


This dude is prolly poor at Economics. You don't flatly compare earnings in diff countries with diff currencies, you consider purchasing power, tax and other factors that can influence potential savings at the end of each month/year
The most intelligent comment have come across so far on this thread
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by BrighterSyde: 8:23am On Oct 19, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.
I used to have this stupid mentality until I moved to the uk and saw things for myself. But I’ll leave you to keep believing this nonsense…
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by bibiking7(m): 8:27am On Oct 19, 2025
grandstar:
You have a point but what the doctor may be earning in the UK is nothing to write home about.

I have been to the UK. It seems what he is earning may not be more than £2,000 a month which is lamentable.



Thats not quite true though. Even junior doctors earn between 3 to 4k pounds per month. Nurses that work private and not under NHS earn 22 pounds per hour and work 12 hours a day for 4 days a week. Believe it or not, the doctor is actually right. In 5 months, I earned my 11 years gratuity payment. I'm not even a doctor. I am talking about what I had left after rent, bills, tax. Yes, things may be quite expensive in london, same way it is lagos, in New York. Those are highly populated cities. Rent will be high. Folks fail to realize though that the UK is 4 countries in 1. England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Expenses vary in these countries. Rent for a 1 bedroom flat in London will get you a 3 bedroom flat in many other parts with council tax and bills.


Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Adakintroy: 8:31am On Oct 19, 2025
Idiots them go use Nigeria save run go UK go de Yab Nigeria. no patriotism no respect. That's why I like wetin trump de do them for America.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by MrGerald(m): 8:32am On Oct 19, 2025
Commentor:
He fails to explain how much he spends on his studio flat.
No matter what you spend you'll still have savings that would help you achieve more, someone I know in UK made over 2m under three weeks from cleaning alone in the UK, no matter how much you earn in naija it's almost like nothing
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by KaLuCh: 8:36am On Oct 19, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
He should also compare the bills and tax!

Does he know his entire annual salary in Nigeria is the mortgage or rent for what you can call home in the UK?

How many people live in homes in the UK? Many reside in Kennels called homes. Small things we can’t call BQ in Nigeria.

Does he know price of energy and taxes that follow after those numbers he quoted?

I am not saying Nigeria is better than the UK, but the true reality of the difference is not much.

Do you know the cost of living same life you were living in Nigeria under that low salary, with that of the UK?

Many can’t even live that life. It’s a party after party champagne campaign in Nigeria with the lowest we earn. We build houses to taste and own outrightly. We not chased by banks.
You're not just lying, you're deluded. There is not a single legal resident of the UK from Nigeria that is experiencing those trash you typed up there.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by ukaface(f): 8:47am On Oct 19, 2025
Zonefree:





,

So, how was he able to save about 18Million Naira to move to UK since his monthly income was just N185,000.

Abi e dey thief? undecided
You know he said he lived with his parents, he was earning 185k
I’m sure he wasn’t paying rent or having extra bills
If he saved 100k every minute month for 7 years , then I think he saved enough to relocate.
Re: Doctor Compares His 7-year Salary In Nigeria And 6-month Salary In The UK by Lamasta(m): 8:55am On Oct 19, 2025
CoronaVirusPro:
Because many have been brainwashed to believe there is a better life there. They convert GBP to Naira in their head forgetting they don’t spend Naira in UK.

Wrong calculations is what has landed many into a journey of no return.

Someone lifting boxes in UK will tell you he is making over 1 million Naira a month, ask him his bills and tax and you will find out what’s left and he even still can’t afford that life he was living in Nigeria
There is better life there compared to the one here in Nigeria, there is nothing you can type that will counter that
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