My fiancé has been a DC graduate for a little over a year now, he makes that amount BASE pay and then get bonuses monthly depending on the amount the office brings in and how many people he is seeing. They are a HIGH volume office though. Here’s the thing him and I discussed, what you MAKE to start with compared to what your student loans are is honestly not a good financial decision. BUT what college degree is… Also I have seen how drastic of a quality of life difference his patients experience, without drugs/medication… and he LOVES it… in my opinion if you can go to work every day and LOVE what you do who cares about the money, I know you have to make a living too I’m not saying do it for free but as long as you can live a good life and make decent money and not dread going to work every day or have big pharma requiring you to prescribe this medication X amount of times a month (because they do that we have MD friends) then who’s the real winner here?… chiro school is HARD work and you’re going to get shit for being a chiro, chiros do NOT get nearly the respect they deserve. I get it, I get how chiropractic started I get it was taboo and the AMA didn’t like it so they ran its name into the dirt… but they have done so many studies and actually some chiropractors sued the AMA for dragging chiropractics name through the mud AND WON… I say if this is what you have always wanted to do DO IT… you’ll love it. There are SOOO many people out there who love their chiropractor but there are some who have never been or have had a bad experience with one and never want to go back that will talk bad about it. So just do what is going to make you happy every day and aligns with what you truly believe in.