Doctor with $300K salary earns more as TikTok influencer than at her day job

A expert has go an influencer and now makes much money connected societal media than her $300K expert net — sharing acquisition videos online. 

Dr. Fran Haydanek, 37, graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine successful 2017 and started moving arsenic an obstetrician-gynecologist – OB/GYN — earning $300K a year.

In 2021, Dr. Fran started posting videos connected TikTok to combat disinformation astir reproductive wellness – for illustration menopause training, pregnancy, and commencement control.

Initially, she made nary money from societal media until 2023 erstwhile she started earning done nan TikTok creator money and she started earning much than her salary.

So acold successful 2025, Dr. Fran has already earned her $300k net from societal media, and she says nan other income has allowed her to commencement paying disconnected her student indebtedness and prevention for retirement.

The physician, from Rochester, New York, said: “I person 3 young children, and a hubby who besides useful arsenic a expert – we person been playing catch-up successful our life.

“The other income has allowed america to person an emergency money and commencement redeeming for our retirement.

“It has besides allowed maine to return 2 other days disconnected a period to walk much clip pinch my kids.

“We are a spot much financially fine, we are moving connected paying disconnected our student loans.”

Dr. Fran became a afloat qualified OB/GYN successful 2017, aft spending 10 years — becoming qualified — racking up astir $300K.

She said: “I person ever been willing successful medicine and science.

“This is simply a section that allowed maine to thief group while moving successful subject each day.

“I would opportunity we are fortunate pinch nan salary we person compared to our counterparts successful different countries.”

In 2021, Dr. Fran was scrolling done societal media erstwhile she came crossed “a batch of misinformation astir childbirth and labor” – including really brith power works, and misunderstanding astir aesculapian conditions successful pregnancy

She started posting acquisition videos connected TikTok to combat immoderate of nan misinformation she saw – including videos astir aesculapian recommendations.

Dr. Fran said: “I was spending a batch of clip scrolling, I kept seeing topics astir labor, delivery, and gestation travel up.

“I saw that location was a batch of incorrect accusation retired there, and I felt for illustration personification should beryllium addressing nan misinformation.

“I started by correcting aliases giving much penetration to those misinformation posts.”

In 2023, Dr. Fran started earning a “little spot of money” connected societal media, which she tripled successful 2024.

So acold this year, Dr. Fran has already surpassed her $300K net pinch her societal media posts – successful a fewer years.

Dr. Fran said: “At this constituent successful 2024, I person already made what I will make successful my full twelvemonth of being a physician.

“As a physician, I americium already privileged pinch my finances.

“The other income has made maine consciousness much secure, because moreover if I couldn’t do my job, I person a measurement to gain money.

“I’m ever successful nan mindset that societal media is impermanent – for me, it is simply a bully measurement to bolster my income.

“This is simply a bully measurement to get up financially, erstwhile I person been playing drawback up pinch money my full life.”

Despite her financial occurrence pinch societal media, Dr. Fran insists that she will ne'er discontinue her time job. 

Dr. Fran said her patients will activity her retired from seeing her societal media posts

She besides wants to promote different doctors to beryllium resourceful pinch their skills and gain an other income.

Dr. Fran said: “I consciousness very powerfully astir nan activity that I do, and I consciousness a existent work to beryllium location for my patients.

“I person worked very difficult to get here, and I bask nan activity I do.

“My passion is societal media, but I emotion my patients.

“The logic I started TikTok is because I want different doctors to cognize that location is different avenue retired there.

“I want to promote different doctors that they excessively tin do this, and beryllium resourceful.”