{"id":418,"date":"2011-01-16T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-01-16T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T17:55:00","slug":"healthcare-compensation-still-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare Compensation Still Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthleadersmedia.com\/content\/MAG-261150\/Healthcare-Compensation-Still-Strong\">Healthcare Compensation Still Strong<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New survey results from Executive Compensation 2010\/2011 show that hospital CEOs earn an average $353,900 per year, (CEOs at not-for-profits average $225,400; at home care facilities, $282,300 a year; at physician clinics, $254,000; at behavioral health facilities, $241,300; and at long-term care facilities, $235,700.<\/p>\n<p>These executives, physicians, and skilled clinicians undoubtedly would make a strong argument that they deserve the salaries they&#8217;re getting. Besides, it&#8217;s what the market is paying, and it&#8217;s hard to blame anyone for earning as much money as he or she can.<\/p>\n<p>However, let&#8217;s put this in perspective. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 4.1% of U.S. households had an income between $150,000 and $200,000 in 2009, and 3.9% had an income of $200,000 or higher, while 11% of U.S. households earn between $15,000 to $25,000 annually. The median household income in the U.S. that year was $50,221.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I threw this in the &#8216;contrarian economics&#8217; category because it has the 2009 income data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare Compensation Still Strong New survey results from Executive Compensation 2010\/2011 show that hospital CEOs earn an average $353,900 per year, (CEOs at not-for-profits average $225,400; at home care facilities, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Healthcare Compensation Still Strong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-costs","category-contrarian-economics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}