Salary Report Shows Increased Salaries for PAs
Do you ever wonder if you’re being compensated fairly? With the use of salary reports you can compare you compensation with other PAs. Clinical Advisor puts out an annual salary survey for NPs and PAs; as with other reports it is important to not overthink the data, and know that it is a general report that includes a limited number of PAs.
Consistent with other reports, this report shows PAs earning more in 2018-2019 compared to previous years and PAs out earning NPs. PAs reported an average annual salary of $115,881 and NPs an average salary of $107,973.
Does this mean if you’re a PA you will receive a higher salary? Not necessarily. The report does not show who responded to the survey and the reason for the difference. A reason for the difference in salaries could be more PAs working in specialty care or surgical specialties compared to NPs. Providers working in specialties typically have higher salaries, so if the PAs that were surveyed worked mostly in specialties and not primary care, than that could account for the higher reported salaries.
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Another answer might be geographical location. This survey, as well as other reports shows that the West Coast has the highest average salaries for PAs. If certain states hire PAs more often than others there might be a higher percentage of PAs working in those states. Also, if the PAs that responded were from the West Coast and the NPs that responded were from different areas that could also affect the data.
A big downside to this report is the low number of respondents. There were more NPs that responded than PAs, and that could have skewed the numbers some. The average salary for PAs is higher than we’ve seen in other reports, but one thing that is consistent is that PA salaries continue to increase from year to year.
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Sad, depressing, demeaning. I do home wound care. I worked for this company from 2003-2006 and again from 2016-present. Back when, we made $50 or even $55 per visit, altough we were not compensated more for longer (or more complicated/higher acuity) visits, like a start-of-care (first visit). So whether it was a first visit that could take 2 hours, or the last visit, discharging the patient, taking 5 minutes, we got the same reimbursement. If a patient wasn’t home when we went, we didn’t get paid. If they were in the hospital or out to lunch with their family or had a doctor’s appointment, and missed the visit, we didn’t get paid. So unpredictable, a rollercoaster, never knowing what my paycheck will look like. Sometimes having no work at all, or just 2-3 patients. For $47 per visit, and that includes driving around the county to see people, doing the wound care, and then going home at the end of the day spending hours on the iPad doing documentation in the crappy EHR that deletes stuff on a whim and you do the data entry over and over and over.
SOOO frustrating. They say they are going to do a salary review. Three years i’m with them now the second time, never had a performance review or a salary review, never got a penny raise.
That sounds like a difficult situation. Every job has pros and cons and you have to find what works for you!