I was wondering that as our profession is moving toward a doctoring profession will our salaries start to go up?  I was told that after Pharmacy converted to the PharmD that thier salaries rose. I actually can make more as a personal trainer then I can as a doctor of physical therapy...One of my patients who is a nurse anesthetist makes 160,000 a year. He said that his program was 51 credit hours past a bachelors. My DPT program was 137 hours past a bachelors. In the end it will be nice to do what you enjoy doing  but it does seem that salaries are abysmal for a clinical doctorate and not commensurate with the education.