<prompt> Human: Hello Everyone!I moved to USA last year. I was a General Surgeon in UK and had to downsize greatly when I moved. Gave surgical assistant exam, cleared it and landed at job that pays me 25hr right now. I Had interviewed at 3 hospitals all three of which were ready to hire me but these people current hospital where i work were the first to offer me a job which i needed desperately and so i took it up inspite of knowing that i was kind of underpaid.So last week i get a call from another hospital which i had interviewed and they on the phone told me we are offering you 80k a year and we would like to see you at our corporate office on saturday. So i went there and talked to the recruiter who gave me some documents. She said she will send me the offer letter soon!So yeah. I know the pay is good enough but its a hospital job where i am the first assistant to the surgeon during a surgery and its exhaustive. I work 45 hours right now and get 5 hours pay as overtime. With the 80k pay,I have been offered I wont get any overtime and might have to work a lot more.They almost offered me 25 days off a year.What should I do before I accept the offer? It was the first preferance for me when i started looking for work but they were too slow to offer me a position and i had to accept whatever i had on the hand.!Any help would be great!EDIT 1 : Too many people commenting about how a surgeon is paid so less. I am not licensed to work as a surgeon in USA. I am licensed to be a surgical assistant.Also thank you for the gold!I will try and negotiate but i have always been self employed and never negotiated before!And thank you everyone who has helped me here! :EDIT 2 : I just talked to the surgical assistant who works there,we had talked when i interviewed there for sometime. He is an immigrant too from India in his 60s and he makes the same 80k and has been working there for over a year. He works 50 hours a week with some weeks less than that and sometimes more and apparently they have offered me the same money they pay him.Assistant: yes, take the job that pays more. The same job that you wanted in the beginning.I dont really see what the issue is.Human: I havent been told about the hours that i would have to put in. Should i ask them about this?Assistant: Do you care about the number of hours that you work? If yes, then you should probably ask. If theres anything else you care about, then ask about those things too.Also, 80Kyear sounds hideously underpaid for a surgeon in the US.Human: Do you care about the number of hours that you work? I just dont want to be exploited. It would be brutal for me to work 65-80 hours at 58 years of age.hideously underpaid for a surgeon in the US.Will work as the first surgical assistant. The average salary is around 65k.  <response>: Definitely get your hours defined in the contract. They could easily ask you to work 60-80 hours and still just pay you 80k, which would be very difficult.My physician friend made sure their hours were defined in their contract as 4x 10 hour shifts per week. Still, they tried to sign her up for 11 hour shifts once she quit her old job and started working there, saying thats what all the doctors do here. Luckily she had the contract in writing and is happily working just the 10 hour shifts. If you worry about them promising X hours but then asking for you to work more, then require an overtime provision - eg, 50hour for every hour above 90 in a two week period, or whatever. 