More than 8 in 10 employers say rising healthcare costs are cutting into wage and salary increases, according to a survey conducted by The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. The 2026 Pulse of the Purchaser survey, released Aug. 12,…
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Physician assistants in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery reported the highest mean income of any specialty in 2025 at $162,045, compared with $134,010 across all PAs, according to the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants’ 2025 Statistical Profile of Board…
Health system CEO pay has climbed across a range of measures over the past year, according to several reports Becker’s has covered in recent months — from academic research on nonprofit hospital pay gaps, to industrywide compensation surveys, to the…
Hospital and health system pay strategies are getting more deliberate in 2026. Minimum wage hikes are up sharply from last year, union contracts are settling into smaller, steadier raises instead of 2025’s double-digit jumps, and CHROs are steering dollars toward…
Six college degrees in healthcare are among the lowest paying, according to an Aug. 2 LinkedIn post from personal finance website WalletHub. The ranking includes the 40 college majors with the lowest median mid-career wages, according to 2024 data from…
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Psychiatric nurse practitioners have the highest share of remote job postings among medical roles on Indeed, according to a July 31 report from Indeed Hiring Lab. Healthcare and caregiving skills now account for 7.5% of all sought-after skills in remote…
Since December 2025, the following hospitals and health systems have said they plan to raise their workers’ pay. Editor’s note: This webpage was published Jan. 9 and is updated regularly. It was last updated July 14. July 1. Employees of…
The widening gap in pay among CEOs and direct patient care workers between 2015 and 2022 was focused among the biggest hospitals and health systems, according to a recent study from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston.…
Median annual wages vary widely among hospital workers, according to May 2025 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Registered nurses, the nation’s largest healthcare practitioner occupation with roughly 3.4 million employed nationwide, earned a median annual wage of $97,550,…
Pharmacy technicians in Washington, D.C., report median annual pay of $91,540 — double the national figure and the highest in the country, according to data released May 15 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nationally, pharmacy technicians reported median hourly…