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.

The average signing bonus for physicians increased 21 percent from 2022 to $37,473 this year, according to AMN Healthcare's "2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives," released Aug. 14.

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.    

Orthopedic surgeons are offered the highest average starting salary ($633,000) among physicians, according to AMN Healthcare's "2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives," released Aug. 14.

Physicians may be the most common occupation among the top 1 percent of income earners, but their earnings are nonetheless difficult to measure — despite the government's role in the market. New research out of the University of Chicago aims to resolve that. 

As companies endure difficult times, some are maintaining one cost-cutting measure from the pandemic's early days: reduced pay for executives. 

Job search engine Adzuna released new research July 18 highlighting healthcare jobs and their average advertised salaries and vacancies as of June 2023.

Southern states have the lowest income thresholds, while those on the East Coast gravitate toward the higher side, according to a recent analysis by SmartAsset. 

A healthcare administration degree can open a variety of doors in the field — and land recipients in a variety of pay ranges, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics and Payscale data.

The average weekly travel nurse pay in June in the U.S. was $2,466, down 8.56 percent from $2,697 during the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

The average weekly travel nurse pay in June in the U.S. was $2,466, down 8.56 percent from $2,697 during the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

The following hospitals and health systems have announced or shared plans for raising workers' pay since June 21. 

SEIU Local 521, a union representing employees of the Bakersfield, Calif.-based Kern County Hospital Authority, has accused the system of overpaying two private consulting firms that provide its top executives. 

Primary care compensation climbed 6.1 percent from 2021 to 2022, compared to 1.5 percent and 1.6 percent increases for medical and surgical specialties, respectively, according to a new survey from the American Medical Group Association.

Leaders at University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque have taken a pay cut as part of efforts to improve the organization's financial picture. 

Salary transparency laws have extended to more than one-quarter of the U.S. labor force, according to an estimate from the National Women's Law Center  — but not all covered organizations have embraced them, The New York Times reported June 20. 

Los Angeles voters will decide on a measure that would cap pay of hospital executives.

The following hospitals and health systems have announced or shared plans for raising workers' pay since May 20.