Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who alleges the health system unlawfully failed to pay employees for all hours worked due to its time-rounding policies and/or practices, according to court documents accessed by…
Compensation Issues
The Guthrie Clinic, a Sayre, Pa.-based health system with 10,000 total employees, is rolling out new benefits in 2025, including a 3% across-the-board wage bump for nearly all caregivers.
Average weekly travel nurse pay in the U.S. in January was $2,294.14, up 0.01% from December and down 3.57% from January 2024, according to data shared with Becker's from Vivian, a healthcare career marketplace.
A bill introduced in the Vermont state Senate by Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky on Jan. 24 would cap compensation for hospital executives and clinical leadership.
The following hospitals and health systems have announced or shared plans for raising workers' pay since December 2024.
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From January through July 2024, staff registered nurses involved in direct patient care saw their median base pay increase by 2%, compared to 1.4% for those in indirect patient care. However, RNs involved in direct and indirect patient care were…
Hagerstown, Md.-based Meritus Health has implemented the next phase of its planned minimum wage increase.
Minimum wage increases took effect on Jan. 1 in 21 states, impacting more than 9.2 million workers and resulting in a projected total wage increase of $5.7 billion annually, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Average weekly travel nurse pay in the U.S. in December was $2,293.97, up 0.13% from November and down 3.84% from December 2023, according to data shared with Becker's from Vivian, a healthcare career marketplace.
Medical school debt has increased by 268% over the past 40 years, outpacing the increase in surgeon salaries almost 10-fold, according to a study published Dec. 11 in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.