Medical residents getting the very short end of the stick

 I've been passing around some thoughts I've had on (especially males) becoming nurses.  Seems median nurses pay in Illinois is $75,000 -- in New York is $100,000.

Finally occurred to me that medical residents with four years of medical school and who work 100 hours a week get only $65,000.  Physicians assistants in Illinois average $135,000 a year. Residents do more complicated procedures than PAs -- for 100 hours (!) a week compared to 40 hours.  If the excuse is that residents are getting an free education (as it were) -- I remember a PA in an urgent care clinic telling me that PAs get their residency on the job.

Nothing could be easier to sell to the public that inherent unfairness here -- wildly so.  Physicians pretax earnings are only 10% of the medical costs so paying residents what they are worth should hardly cause any strain.

Cite articles like these:
"Officials say the 5 1/2-year contract gives nurses an immediate $16,000 raise in the first year and over $5,500 in the second year. The increase will bring salaries for nurses up to par with those at private facilities."
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjT7KroqIuDAxWqtokEHWWBDsUQFnoECA0QAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbronx.news12.com%2Fnyc-health-hospitals-nurses-to-receive-major-pay-bump-following-new-contract&usg=AOvVaw2wDtggAOn8m4FMDxfZdOSd&opi=89978449

"The Teamsters union reached an agreement with UPS that secured a total compensation package of $170,000 for UPS drivers ..."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ups-drivers-video-breaking-down-185543274.html

What I've been passing around:
https://ontodayspage.blogspot.com/2023/08/jimmy-hoffas-wet-dream-strong-squaws.html

(I was in Teamster 804 back in 1970 when it was Gimble's furniture warehouse.)