Table 2

Health care wages in source and destination countries, most recent data available


USDPPP monthly wage



Nurse
Doctor


Source countries
Chad
$
425
$
1,050
Cote d'Ivoire
$
530
$
774
Ghana
$
206
$
473
Lesotho


$
3,379
Malawi
$
489
$
868
Mozambique
$
441
$
2,826
Namibia


$
2,503
Phillipines
$
380


Sierra Leone
$
175
$
228
South Africa
$
1,486
$
2,836
Sri Lanka
$
407
$
1,329
Trinidad Tobaggo
$
913
$
1,514
Uganda
$
38
$
67
Zambia
$
106
$
425
Destination countries
USA
$
3,056
$
10,554
U.K.
$
2,576
$
7,676
France
$
2,133
$
5,120
Canada
$
2,812
$
8,472
Australia
$
2,832
$
5,438

Source: WHO

Vujicic et al. Human Resources for Health 2004 2:3   doi:10.1186/1478-4491-2-3