Comments on: Kazakh Pensions Are A Disgrace!

By: ChrisM

ChrisM — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:59:26 +0000

Thanks for the confirmation, I didn’t want to go stating that that wage level was normal without knowing for sure.
Hopefully see you soon - I’m pretty much recovered now from that stupid flu.

By: Dan The Man

Dan The Man — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:56:36 +0000

$160 for his salary is the norm not the exception, this extreme low pay also extends to teachers and other public sector workers, crazy, and they wonder why there’s a lack of good health care here !

By: ChrisM

ChrisM — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:35:20 +0000

The last time I heard a doctor discuss their wages (this was in a public hospital, obviously private ones pay more) was a year or so ago. They got paid the princely sum of 20,000 Tenge. (Thats just under 80 quid or $160 if you prefer).
It may be that public sector doctor’s wages have improved since then (I doubt it), or that this doctor was being paid an unusually low amount (a small possibility, I just don’t know that many doctors well enough to actually ask them about their income level).

By: Paul McElroy

Paul McElroy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:54:33 +0000

What about the doctor’s level of pay? I’ve been to Karaganda and toured a hospital my friend was interning at. I can imagine it must be pretty low, but as an intern studying in Kansas I bet he gets paid squat over the summer vacation anyways.