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. 

Orthopedists have the highest average incentive bonus compared to other physician specialties, according to Medscape's "Physician Compensation Report 2023," released April 14. 

Women earn the same or more than their husbands in nearly half of U.S. marriages, shattering households' reliance on male "breadwinners," Bloomberg reported April 13. 

Plastic surgery is the highest-paying physician specialty, according to Medscape's 2023 Physician Compensation Report. 

While overall physician salaries rose about 4 percent, earnings disparities remain wide between genders and between races even as some gaps are narrowing, the 2023 Medscape "Physician Compensation" report showed.

Eligible Penn Medicine Lancaster (Pa.) General Health employees will receive 4 percent pay increases, lancasteronline.com reported April 12. 

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health invested $138 million in its workforce and $271 million into base-pay increases and incentives in 2022, according to a report shared with Becker's April 10. 

The following hospitals and health systems have announced or shared plans for raising workers' pay in 2023. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, the largest hospital operator in the country, has reported performance-related details of its compensation package for senior executives, a Security and Exchange Commission filing April 6 showed.

Iredell Health System, based in Statesville, N.C., said April 6 it will increase pay for nurses and other positions over the coming months. 

Statesville, N.C.-based Iredell Health is rolling out pay increases for most of its 1,800-person workforce over the next few months.

  A Los Angeles judge has denied a challenge from the California Hospital Association to a ballot measure that would cap pay of hospital executives.

Most people do not get the higher pay they ask for when taking a new job — but most people do not even ask, according to Fortune. 

State lawmakers in Washington have introduced legislation aimed at imposing an excise tax on hospital employees making "excess compensation," according to an April 4 report in The Center Square.

The average weekly travel nurse pay in March in the U.S. was $2,590, down 14.09 percent from $3,015 during the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

A Los Angeles ballot measure backed by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West would cap pay for hospital executives at the compensation of the U.S. president, or $450,000 per year. The California Hospital Association is challenging the measure, arguing that the president earns more. 

In 2022, Community Health Systems' highest-earning executives saw pay cuts by the millions, according to a proxy statement filed March 30. 

Female physicians earn less than their male counterparts for all ages and family types, according to a study published March 24 in JAMA Health Forum.

Physician pay increases have failed to keep up with inflation rates in recent years, with average physician compensation declining by 2.4 percent last year. This decline is compared with an increase of 3.8 percent the prior year, according to Doximity's 2023 "Physician Compensation Report."