Category: Compensation Issues

Surgeons, excluding oral and maxillofacial surgeons, earn $167.25 per hour on average, according to data published April 25 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ occupational employment statistics survey.

Nurse practitioners in the U.S. make an average of $124,680 annually, according to the latest data released April 25 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Registered nursese receive $42.80 on average, according to data published by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational employment statistics survey.

Pharmacists in the U.S. make an average of $129,410 annually, according to the latest data released April 25 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The types of jobs available at hospitals vary widely, and so do the annual wages for those jobs. 

The top executives at S&P 500 companies reported pay increases were down in 2022-23 compared to the year prior, according to a report from ISS Corporate Solutions.

Ballad Health’s CEO said he believes nurses at the system’s tertiary hospital deserve the higher pay they receive, the Elizabethton Starr reported April 18. 

The lowest annual pay a worker would find acceptable for taking a new job reached $75,811 in March, up about $2,100 from November, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest Survey of Consumer Expectations. 

Executive pay cuts marked 2022 at three of the nation’s largest for-profit health systems. 

Tenet Healthcare’s highest-paid executives took significant pay cuts in 2022, according to a proxy statement the Dallas-based company filed April 14.