NEARLY 2,000 junior doctors earned over £90,000 in one year, the Sun on Sunday can reveal.

But they are still planning to walk out on strike this week demanding a whopping 29 per cent pay rise.

Around five per cent of doctors in specialist training made more than £91,700, NHS England data from April 2023 to March 2024 shows.

It means over 1,800 junior doctors, now known as residents, were in the top five per cent of UK earners in that period.

Critics said the shocking revelation shows just how outrageous it is that junior doctors are going on strike this week.

They will down tools for five days from Friday morning.

Shadow health secretary Ed Argar said the strikes were a “slap in the face” for Brits who will pay the price.

He added: “These strikes are irresponsible, unnecessary and wrong, and should be called off now.

“Resident doctors will be coming off the front line and going on the picket line and this kind of chaos puts patients and lives at risk.”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has told the Commons the average first-year doctor earns £43,275 – “significantly more than the average full-time worker in this country”.

This week talks between the leftie British Medical Association and Wes Streeting ended in a stalemate.

A spokesman for the BMA said the high earnings will have been paid to a minority of more senior resident doctors working multiple weekends, anti-social hours and extra shifts to cover gaps in rotas.

He added: “It is an indication of the huge workforce shortage in the NHS because these doctors, like scores of others, step in, give up their time to fill as many shifts as they can to make sure patients are seen and cared for.”