generally needs you to either be promoted from staff (so years of service) or a graduate management programme which means a degree first...so...you dont actually get a head start time wise either...

Neither of which take 5 years so you do get a head start and again we're comparing two different things.

£10k is "basically no difference"?

So you're angry about this but not the near £30k difference in salary if you walk across our nearest border?

you have to compare LIKE with LIKE, and you cant grasp that figures in DIFFERENT CURRENCIES are not directly comparable

Ah of course, we can only compare doctors salaries within the UK to others within the UK because otherwise the currency will invalidate everything...makes sense.

There's a private hospital opening here that's going to offer a base consultant rate of £300k.

Odd that you ignored this then?

You want to compare like with like go and look at what an actually comparable job pays with a 5 year degree, a decade of training and life and death responsibility.

Oh and look at the hours worked and working conditions to.