Category: Compensation Issues

Healthcare, with women holding 77% of its jobs, could be a strong leader in gender equity for pay. Instead, its pay gaps are growing in complexity — and at a really bad time. 

Orthopedic surgeons are offered the highest average base salary among physicians and rheumatologists are offered the lowest, according to AMN Healthcare’s “2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives,” released in August.

Availability of high-paying healthcare jobs increased 54% in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the three months prior, with various companies offering these roles, according to one new report.

Pay for travel nurses is evolving as the country moves away from the peak of the pandemic.

The median total cash compensation paid to physician assistants and nurse practitioners varies by region, according to one survey.

Half of U.S. states will increase their minimum wages throughout 2024, with 22 of those changes already taking effect. 

Median annual wages for nurse anesthetists vary across states, with the national median estimated at $203,090, according to the most recently available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released April 25.

Median annual wages for nurse practitioners vary across states, with the national median estimated at $121,610, according to the most recently available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released April 25.

Median annual wages for physician assistants vary across states, with the national median estimated at $126,010, according to the most recently available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, released April 25.

Median annual wages for registered nurses vary across states.