W
ho earned more in 2018, our hospital readers or our
surgery center readers? Depends. If you're going
straight salary, slightly better to be in a hospital. But if
you're going salary plus bonus, slightly better to be in
an ASC. Outpatient Surgery Magazine's 2018 Salary
Survey found that hospital OR managers averaged around $2,300 more in
salary than ambulatory surgery center administrators — $109,384 to $107,050.
But surgery center leaders were paid around $3,700 more in bonuses than
their hospital counterparts — $7,734 to $4,029. When you add it all up, gross
income was nearly $1,400 more at ASCs ($114,784) than at hospitals
($113,413). Better to have a bigger salary than a bigger bonus, but money is
money, right? Well, not always.
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