U.S. Nonprofit Hospital CEO Annual Pay Averages $600,000
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Heads of U.S. nonprofit hospitals earn an average of almost $600,000 a year, compensation that isn’t tied to quality measures such as mortality rates, a Harvard University study found.
The chief executive officers paid the most oversee larger, urban hospitals that are usually teaching institutions and have a median salary of more than $1.66 million, according to research published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. The top executives paid the least –- a median of $117,933 –- are most often at small, non-teaching facilities in rural areas.