Should doctors get more pay than actors????
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 11:42 pm
some feel that certain workers like Nurses,Doctors and Teachers are undervalued and should be paid more especially when other people like film actors are paid huge sums of money that are out of proportion to the importance of the work they do.
How far do you agree?
What criteria should be used to decide how much people are paid.
You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence
The trend in today’s Labour market sees professionals like nurses and doctors underestimated in preference to less skilled workers like actors as well as the remuneration of the latter paid in excess compared to the former. It is agreed that this isn’t the right thing to do as professionals spend more years studying and their job is considered more essential for the community. The yardstick for payment of wages should be based on how important a workers job is as well as the number of years he spent studying. These view points will be discussed in this essay
The training as a medical doctor or a nurse takes some donkey years. This is because the job of a doctor or a nurse is considered significant as it has to do with savings life. A little mistake can decide if a patient lives or dies. For an instance I spent over ten years to train as a medical practitioner which involved 8 years of didactic lectures, one year of clinical training and another one year of unpaid services to my community. Also, the services of health workers requires them to spend more time at work and also to be more careful as their job involves a lot of scrutiny and also vulnerable to litigation. Hence, it becomes imperative that specialist should receive more pay than other unskilled workers.
The benchmark for paying salaries should be judged on how important an employers services are to the community and the number of years spent studying. The doctors and nurses match this criterion as they spend more years in school and also their services are so invaluable to the society. It is so disheartening to find unskilled people like actors or company administrative officers offered huge amount of salary. For example, in Nigeria workers are paid a range of 150 to 300 thousand naira while film actors whom perhaps didn’t attend the university are paid almost a million naira, an amount that is quadruple of the professionals.
To conclude,I firmly agree that experts like doctors and nurses should receive a better pay for their essential services to the society and also for the fact they spend more years to train in school. This should be the criteria for selecting what should be paid to whosoever is working
How far do you agree?
What criteria should be used to decide how much people are paid.
You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence
The trend in today’s Labour market sees professionals like nurses and doctors underestimated in preference to less skilled workers like actors as well as the remuneration of the latter paid in excess compared to the former. It is agreed that this isn’t the right thing to do as professionals spend more years studying and their job is considered more essential for the community. The yardstick for payment of wages should be based on how important a workers job is as well as the number of years he spent studying. These view points will be discussed in this essay
The training as a medical doctor or a nurse takes some donkey years. This is because the job of a doctor or a nurse is considered significant as it has to do with savings life. A little mistake can decide if a patient lives or dies. For an instance I spent over ten years to train as a medical practitioner which involved 8 years of didactic lectures, one year of clinical training and another one year of unpaid services to my community. Also, the services of health workers requires them to spend more time at work and also to be more careful as their job involves a lot of scrutiny and also vulnerable to litigation. Hence, it becomes imperative that specialist should receive more pay than other unskilled workers.
The benchmark for paying salaries should be judged on how important an employers services are to the community and the number of years spent studying. The doctors and nurses match this criterion as they spend more years in school and also their services are so invaluable to the society. It is so disheartening to find unskilled people like actors or company administrative officers offered huge amount of salary. For example, in Nigeria workers are paid a range of 150 to 300 thousand naira while film actors whom perhaps didn’t attend the university are paid almost a million naira, an amount that is quadruple of the professionals.
To conclude,I firmly agree that experts like doctors and nurses should receive a better pay for their essential services to the society and also for the fact they spend more years to train in school. This should be the criteria for selecting what should be paid to whosoever is working