Category: Compensation Issues

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.

Physicians make a lot of money, according to an Aug. 4 article in The Washington Post. Physicians know this, according to social media — and they believe the scrutiny of their paychecks is misguided. 

CEOs outearn the average worker in every state, but the gap is wider in some places than others. 

Standard annual pay raises of years past will no longer suffice as workers expect higher pay raises from their employers next year, Fortune reported Aug. 7, citing data from Payscale’s Salary Budget Survey.

The average weekly travel nurse pay in July in the U.S. was $2,447.83, down from $2,677.19 in the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

The average CEO of an S&P 500 healthcare corporation brings home more than a pretty penny, but their earnings remain significantly short of those in some other sectors. 

Employed physicians are generally paid a base salary and receive bonuses based on productivity — often measured by the number of relative value units physicians generate, the number of patients seen, net collections, and, on occasion, gross billing.