Female medical assistants and women in healthcare support roles earn a higher median salary than their male counterparts, according to CNBC.

As the number of nurse practitioners hits a record high in the U.S. and the demand for advanced practice providers continues to grow, this provider group's compensation is increasing across specialties, according to a SullivanCotter survey.

Physicians specializing in infectious diseases earn less than most other physicians, which causes a number of medical students to opt out of pursuing the specialty, according to a survey conducted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Despite an increase overall in physician compensation for 2018, African-American physicians make an average of $50,000 less per year than white physicians, according to Medscape's annual Physician Compensation Report.

Indiana is the highest earning state for physicians, with physicians earning $334,000 in annual compensation on average, according to Medscape's annual Physician Compensation Report.

The average overall physician salary is $299,000, including primary care and specialties, with plastic surgeons earning the highest average annual compensation at $501,000, according to Medscape's annual Physician Compensation Report.

Seventy-six percent of hospitals said they pay their CEO a bonus, with the average bonus for a hospital CEO at just over one-third (33.2 percent) of their base salary, according to a report published by Total Compensation Solutions.

The average annual salary for a medical information officer is $120,822, according to data from Payscale.

Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems Chairman of the Board and CEO Wayne T. Smith's total compensation was nearly $5 million in 2017. That's 80 times as much as the company's median employee, according to a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

Tenet Healthcare's CEO Ronald A. Rittenmeyer made $3.7 million last year, according to a recent proxy statement.

Registered nurses in operating rooms earn $66,390 on average annually, according to the latest Payscale data.

More than 1 million healthcare workers in the U.K.'s National Health Service, including nurses, paramedics and emergency call handlers, will soon receive their first real pay raise since 2010, according to a CNNMoney report.

Surgeons in the U.S. make roughly $252,910 per year, with an hourly wage of $121.59, according to 2016 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In a recent post, Premier Inc. shares an analysis of health systems participating in its QUEST® collaborative using results from a matched cohort analysis of FY18 data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).   

The annual mean wage for anesthesiologists in the U.S. is roughly $269,600. However, anesthesiologists in some states surpass the figure by almost $18,000, according to 2016 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

General internists in the U.S. make approximately $201,840 per year, which averages to about $97.04 per hour, according to 2016 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The median annual salary for a chief information security officer in the U.S. is $215,273, according to data from Salary.com.

Fiscal year 2017 marked the first time in U.S. history publicly traded companies were required to disclose how much they paid their CEO in comparison to their median employee, reports Bloomberg.

Anthony Tersigni, president and CEO of St. Louis-based Ascension, topped The Wall Street Journal's "Million-Dollar Club" for executives of nonprofit organizations who earned at least $1 million in 2014.

As healthcare information technology embraces its shift from a traditional, administrative role to a more strategic and disruptive role supporting the evolution of volume to value, it is more essential than ever to ensure that organizations are able to pinpoint the differences in pay for highly specialized information technology positions.