Stat Tracker

The Latest Data on Staff Salaries

Staff personnel costs remain the highest expense item for almost all ophthalmology practices, often constituting more than 50% of total practice overhead. Practices pay from 21% to 27% of their gross collected revenue for such staff personnel costs. The 2007 Staff Salary Survey, published by The Health Care Group, located in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., provides hard data for comparing and structuring staff compensation. Below are the national averages for ophthalmology practices as reported in the 2007 Staff Salary Survey.

Note that staff averages are given on a per-hour basis while the administrator/executive director, assistant manager, business manager and office manager averages are given on an annual salary basis.

About this data: The staff salary national averages in this installment of Stat Tracker were drawn from The Health Care Group’s 2007 Staff Salary Survey. In the fourth quarter of 2006, questionnaires were mailed to more than 9,179 medical, dental and other practices nationwide and 562 practices responded, including 110 ophthalmology practices. Those ophthalmology practices supplied 2,664 different staff salaries. The complete 2007 Staff Salary Survey, with more staff categories and additional results, is organized by staff position, geographic region and metropolitan statistical area. For more information about the survey, call Mark E. Kropiewnicki, J.D., LL.M., at (800) 473-0032.