In a number of U.S. cities, physicians are among the highest-paid jobs across all industries. But regardless of specialty, their pay differs drastically from one city to another, according to a recent series of analyses from Zippia. 

The average weekly travel nurse pay in September in the U.S. was $2,383, a decrease of 0.2 percent from the previous month and a 9 percent decrease from the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

Cooperstown, N.Y.-based Bassett Healthcare Network is offering enhanced sign-on bonuses for a number of open positions within its network, including up to $35,000 for registered nurses. 

Workers anticipating merit raises equal to their last may be disappointed in the year ahead as companies look to scale back after years of increases throughout the pandemic, Bloomberg reports. 

Many final-year residents have said they are both underpaid and underappreciated for the sheer volume of work they are expected to do within what some termed a "brutal" healthcare system.

Job offers for final-year residents may be widely present, but burnout is a problem. A lack of business preparedness and gender differences on pay expectations are also significant issues.

Prospect Medical's Waterbury (Conn.) Hospital and Eastern Connecticut Health Network in Manchester have struggled to pay physicians amid financial difficulties and a cyberattack in August that crippled their computer systems and disrupted operations, according to the CT Mirror.

Several reports have come out in recent months highlighting physician compensation trends. While data periods, criteria and samples differed over such reports, some trends emerged that showed consistent data, including a strong correlation between compensation increases in certain specialties.

Median sign-on bonuses in 2023 varied across physician specialties, according to Sullivan Cotter's 2022-23 Physician Compensation and Productivity Report. 

Median compensation increased by double-digit margins for 11 physician specialties in 2023 compared to last year, according to Sullivan Cotter's 2022-23 Physician Compensation and Productivity Report. 

The compensation package for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia CEO Madeline Bell was under a spotlight last week after the Philadelphia Inquirer published an article revealing her 2021 pay in early September.

SEIU California and healthcare facilities in the state are making progress toward a $25 minimum wage for employees, but the process won't be speedy, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 12. 

Three employees of West Virginia United Health System, commonly branded as WVU Medicine, recently filed a class-action lawsuit against the health system, alleging it failed to compensate them for overtime work.

In July, registered nurse travel jobs in the cardiac progressive care unit received the highest pay, according to one new analysis. 

Nurse practitioners are projected to be the fastest-growing occupation in healthcare and the second fastest-growing occupation in all industries from 2022 to 2032.

The average weekly travel nurse pay in August in the U.S. was $2,430.33, down 9.56 percent from $2,687.13 in the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

It's common for top healthcare executives to obtain some sort of graduate education. But where will that degree translate to dollars? 

The rich may be getting poorer, but Americans' pay expectations are only gaining steam. 

A number of healthcare and pharmaceutical company CEOs are the highest earners among organizations in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, according to data from research firm Equilar provided to Becker's on Aug. 25.

On Aug. 11, Illinois became the ninth state to pass a pay transparency law.