Seventy-one percent of chief medical information officers have received a salary increase of less than 10% over the past year, though the percentage of CMIOs making over $350,000 a year has risen from 56% in 2023 to 83% in 2025, according to executive search firm WittKieffer.
“This significant shift likely reflects a combination of factors: higher starting salaries for newly hired CMIOs, experienced CMIOs leveraging job changes for substantial compensation increases … and the cumulative effect of even modest annual increases,” the June report’s authors wrote.
Seventy-eight percent of CMIOs are also eligible for an annual bonus. Here are CMIOs’ annual base salaries in 2025, per WittKieffer’s survey of dozens of the executives, mostly from health systems:
Over $500,000: 12%
$451,000 to $500,000: 15%
$401,000 to $450,000: 31%
$351,000 to $400,000: 25%
$301,000 to $350,000: 11%
$300,000 or less: 6%
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