Hospital System CEOs’ Compensation Tops $300,000
September 3, 2001 Hospital System CEOs' Compensation Tops $300,000 Chief executive officers (CEOs) of health systems earned a base average salary of $318,000, while physician executives earned $241,620, physician CEOs earned $302,000 and hospital CEOs earned $276,668. These are the findings of a study conducted by Oak Brook, Illinois-based recruiting firm Witt/Kieffer, called the Executive Compensation Study. The information obtained for the report was from the nearly 450 placements that Witt/Kieffer did in 2000. In addition, the study found hospital executives were eligible for a wide range of additional compensation. These might . . .