Health Administration Salaries

What to Expect in Health Administration Salaries

When looking at health administration salary data, it's important to consider, the many factors that can affect earning potential. For instance, geographical location, education level, years of work experience and the size of the employer all play a part in determining each individual worker's wages.

Medical Office Administrator

The following salary data for medical office managers (from the 2008 Managers Compensation Survey by the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management) shows what office managers in different practice specialties earn:

Health Information Administrator and Technician Salaries

Workers in the health information sector manage and maintain important patient medical records. The chart below (based on Payscale.com's February, 2009 data) details the average salaries of health information workers with varying levels of experience:

Medical and Health Services Manager Salaries

Medical and health service managers provide direction and planning for many kinds of health care agencies. The following chart (based on Payscale.com's February, 2009 data) shows the average salaries of medical and health service managers working for a variety of employers:

Health Administration Workplaces

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 37 percent of health services managers worked in hospitals, and 22 percent worked in physicians' offices or in nursing care facilities. Other health administrators worked in the following kinds of locations:

• Home health care services
• Federal government health care facilities
• Outpatient care centers
• Insurance carriers
• Community care facilities for the elderly