Compensation Issues

The median annual income for operating room nurses is $72,248, according to data from Salary.com.

Certain factors — including age and productivity — contribute to gender disparity in physician compensation, according to the 2017 Physician Compensation and Production Survey from the Medical Group Management Association.

Although most health systems have begun restructuring their care models to accommodate value-based reimbursement, a large proportion are still paid on the traditional fee-for-service model. Many health system leaders are finding themselves "stuck in the middle" — attempting to align…

Physicians in New Hampshire have the highest compensation at $272,820, followed by Wyoming, Minnesota and Wisconsin where physicians earn more than $250,000 on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

As of April 27, the median annual income for staff nurses in intensive care units is $69,782, according to Salary.com.

Female physicians earn 26.5 percent less than their male counterparts on average, according to new data from Doximity, a medical social network whose membership includes 70 percent of the nation's physicians.

The median salary for infection control nurses is $67,211, according to Payscale data.

Vermont senators are calling on Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board to do more to address pay parity between independent and hospital-employed physicians, according to a VTDigger report.

The national average annual wage of registered nurses was $72,180 in 2016, but RNs in some states earn much more than the national average.

Physician assistants earned an average income of more than $104,000 in 2016, but in some specialties, average pay was nearly $120,000, according to survey data from the National Commission on Certification of Physician assistants.