The 2013 National Healthcare Leadership Compensation Survey, conducted by INTEGRATED Healthcare Strategies and co-sponsored by ASHHRA (the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration), has just been published.
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With a record number of 1,350 healthcare organizations participating, data was summarized for 175 executive level and 39 manager level positions, representing more than 26,000 incumbents. The data compiled for the National Healthcare Leadership Compensation Survey is effective February 1, 2013. Year-over-year trends represent changes from February 1, 2012 (the effective date of the previous survey) to February 2013.
The survey report’s highlights include:
- The median salary increase over the previous 12 months for the majority of both system and hospital positions ranged from 2.0% to 4.0%.
- Projected increases reported for the upcoming fiscal year for all executives are 3.0%.
- Approximately 80% of systems and hospitals have a short-term, or annual, incentive plan in place, while long-term incentive plans are typically only found at larger, complex organizations.
- CEOs have a total incentive opportunity as high as 80% to 100% or more of salary at target value, if they are eligible for both short- and long-term incentives.
- Median base salary for independent system CEOs is now $750,000.
In addition to detailed summaries of incentive opportunity levels by position, the survey also offers descriptive statistics regarding executive benefits, supplemental benefits, and common perquisites.
“2014 budgets are already in progress at organizations everywhere; that’s why we consistently release our leadership survey results as early in the year as possible,” Christy Boswell, surveys manager for INTEGRATED, said. “This year, ours was released in late August, a full 3 months earlier than some competitors.”