Category: Compensation Issues

Shorter contracts, noncompete agreements and increased emphasis on value-based components are among the shifts occurring in physician contracts as hospitals and medical groups build recruitment pipelines and offer incentives to retain physicians. 

A common scapegoat for the gender wage gap now has numeric value: U.S. women would collectively make an additional $627 billion per year if paid for their caregiving work. 

Average starting salaries increased in 12 specialties tracked in AMN Healthcare’s “2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” for which there were year-over-year comparisons.

Orthopedic surgeons have the highest base salaries in 2023 among the most-recruited physician and advanced practitioner specialties, according to a report published Aug. 15 by AMN Healthcare.

Pharmaceutical S&P 500 companies — including major vaccine manufacturers like Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — have smaller CEO-to-worker pay gaps than many other healthcare companies. 

At Align Technology — the San Jose, Calif.-based orthodontics manufacturer responsible for Invisalign — the CEO makes 1,026 times what the median worker brings in. 

America’s top-earning physicians practice in some unexpected pockets of the country. 

The verdict is in: Workers prefer money, not pens, when they serve a health system for five years. But if they are going to receive an anniversary check, there are certain dollar amounts that remain “insulting[ly]” low, according to a popular post on R…

Generation Z has earned a reputation as work-averse, namely due to trends they circulate on TikTok. 

The University of California has released 2022 wage data for every employee on its payroll, including the CEOs of its six highly ranked academic health centers.