Category: Compensation Issues

Pittsburgh-based UPMC has made plans to raise minimum wage to $18 per hour, more than double the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. 

DuBois, Pa.-based Penn Highlands Healthcare is offering hefty sign-on bonuses up to $15,000. 

Average weekly travel nurse pay in December in the U.S. varied across states compared to the month prior, with some seeking increases and others seeing decreases, according to a report shared with Becker’s from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiri…

The average weekly travel nurse pay in December in the U.S. was $3,177, down 16 percent from $3,782 during the same month in 2021, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

Lancaster (Pa.) General Health System, part of Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine, canceled employee holiday bonuses because of rising costs, inflation and “radical changes” in healthcare, according to LNP | Lancaster Online.

According to the “2022 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives” provided by AMN Healthcare’s physician recruiting firm Merritt Hawkins, orthopedic surgery offers the highest average base salary while pediatrics offers the lo…

Upper Allegheny Health System is boosting employee wages across the Olean, N.Y.-based organization. 

The total amount of cash compensation paid to physician assistants and nurse practitioners can vary significantly by region, according to a survey released Dec. 7 by consulting firm SullivanCotter.

Twenty-seven states will raise their minimum wage this year — some already have. 

More employers opted out of holiday bonuses this year than last, while 81 percent of those that did extend bonuses kept the value flat, according to a year-end report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.