Amazon raised its minimum wage for hourly employees to $15, but it is taking away incentive pay, monthly bonuses and stock option awards, according to Fortune.
Compensation Issues
On average, annual family premiums for employer health plans totaled about $20,000 this year, according to new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
1. For the first time, the costs of employer sponsored family healthcare coverage has reached approximately $20,000 per year. The year-over-year growth in this number exceeds average inflation. This does not match the horrendous increases over inflation of several years…
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente was listed among the top 50 highest-paying companies, according to an analysis of employee reviews by job-hunting website Comparably.
Amazon will raise its minimum wage for all U.S. hourly employees, including full-time, part-time and seasonal employees, to $15 per hour, according to Fortune.
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Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health could pay out nearly $120 million to four of its top executives after Apollo Global Management closes its acquisition of the company, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As an emphasis on value-based care increases, healthcare leaders with strong clinical backgrounds are in high demand, increasing opportunities for physicians in high-paying executive roles, according to SullivanCotter's 2018 Physician Executive Compensation Survey Report and 2018 Medical Group Executive Compensation Survey Report.
Physicians are satisfied with their jobs, but less so with their income, with only 37 percent of them reporting earning more last year than they did in 2016, a physician survey from PracticeMatch found.
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare was listed among the top 15 companies hiring for six-figure jobs in September, with more than 500 job openings, according to a report from job seeker resource website Ladders.
In 2018, workers with employer-sponsored insurance will pay an average deductible of $1,491 for individual coverage and $2,788 for family coverage, according to a new survey from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, cited by Benefit News.