Compensation Issues

Female surgeons earn 24 percent less per hour than male surgeons under a fee-for-service system in Canada, a difference that can cost women more than $50 per hour in some specialties, according to new research published by JAMA Surgery.

Akron (Ohio) Children's Hospital will increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour effective Nov. 24, reports the Akron Beacon Journal.

A financially strapped Catholic hospital in New York can't pay retired workers' pensions — and due to a loophole, it may not be the only hospital that puts workers' financial futures at risk, according to NPR. 

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare will raise minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2021, the system announced. 

Here are 10 hospitals that posted job listings offering registered nurses up to $10,000 in signing bonuses.

Labor and delivery travel nurses can earn close to $2,000 per week, making it the highest-paid travel nurse specialty, according to a report by Trusted Health, a nurse-staffing firm.

A Maine woman said she has been mailed more than 500 letters in five days from UnitedHealthcare, the insurance arm of UnitedHealth Group, according to News Center Maine.

The cost of health insurance offered to workers through their employers is increasingly unaffordable, according to an annual report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The board of Valleywise Health, a public and nonprofit safety-net health system in Phoenix, postponed discussions about increasing its CEO's pay after The Arizona Republic inquired about the hike Sept. 24.

The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a rule on Sept. 24 that would alter earnings thresholds to make more than 1 million American workers eligible for overtime pay, effective Jan. 1, 2020.