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Compensation Issues

The average CEO of an S&P 500 healthcare corporation brings home more than a pretty penny, but their earnings remain significantly short of those in some other sectors. 

The average signing bonus for physicians increased 21 percent from 2022 to $37,473 this year, according to AMN Healthcare's "2023 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives," released Aug. 14.

The average weekly travel nurse pay in July in the U.S. was $2,447.83, down from $2,677.19 in the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.    

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Physicians may be the most common occupation among the top 1 percent of income earners, but their earnings are nonetheless difficult to measure — despite the government's role in the market. New research out of the University of Chicago aims…

As companies endure difficult times, some are maintaining one cost-cutting measure from the pandemic's early days: reduced pay for executives. 

Southern states have the lowest income thresholds, while those on the East Coast gravitate toward the higher side, according to a recent analysis by SmartAsset. 

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