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Radiography or Radiation Therapy

  • 22-09-2009 7:45pm
    #1
    ScienceBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 ✭


    Hope I'm in the right section, I am applying to either Radiography or Radiation Thrapy next year. I didn't know which appealed to me more so I started googling information about them. One site I went into said that radiation therapists only get paid €26,000 pa. Is this right? My job that I'm leaving to go back to college pays more than that! :confused:


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  • #2
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    That's probably a starting salary. Though others might know for sure.


  • #3
    lonestargirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭lonestargirl


    Starting salary for radiation therapists is currently €38,310 (DOHC salary scales). Historically people could make almost as much again working on-call, this has been reduced in the last year with only emergency patients being treated on-call (in St. Luke's anyway).

    Personally I think radiation therapy is a more interesting profession. There is also a lot more scope for work outside the day-to-day job on the treatment units (e.g. research, dosimetry) that I think there would be in radiograpy. Be prepared though, it's hard work.


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