Female surgical residents have similar career goals as their male counterparts but expect lower salaries, according to a study published in JAMA Surgery.

Physician compensation increased significantly for psychiatrists and some primary care specialties from 2017-18, while productivity largely stayed the same, according to AMGA's "2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey."

This year, women gained a slight majority in the college-educated workforce for the first time in U.S. history, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Below are eight hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking registered nurses. These organizations are offering sign-on bonuses of up to $20,000.

The Medical Group Management Association reports compensation is increasing for medical practice leaders, with the biggest increases among CEOs or executive directors.

Columbus-based OhioHealth will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour in November, reports The Columbus Dispatch.

The median base salary for U.S. physician assistants climbed from $105,000 in 2017 to $106,000 in 2018, according to a new salary report released by the American Academy of PAs .

While compensation is important in recruiting physicians to rural areas, it is not as important as hospital administrators may think, according to a survey conducted by clinician search firm Jackson Physician Search.

The House approved a measure July 18 to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 and to annually revisit the minimum wage after that.  

Union workers from Southfield, Mich.-based Beaumont Health system plan to rally July 17 after learning their CEO earned an 82 percent compensation increase in 2017, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Here are five recent articles about average pay for hospital executives:

Physician recruitment data indicates relative value units, or RVUs, are still the dominant metric for production bonuses in 2018-19, according to Merritt Hawkins' "2019 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives."

Family physicians were the most in-demand specialty for the 13th year in a row, according to physician search firm Merritt Hawkins' annual report of clinician recruitment incentives.

On average, the top executives at the 82 largest nonprofit health systems were paid $3.5 million annually in fiscal year 2017, according to a new oversight report analyzing the top 82 nonprofit hospitals. 

The annual mean wage for anesthesiologists in the U.S. is $267,020, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected in May 2018.

Alaska is the top-paying state for nursing assistants, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data collected in May 2018.

Nurses trained in informatics can earn an average of $101,160 per year in the U.S., according to job search website ZipRecruiter.

Physician compensation increased across the board from 2017 to 2018, with primary care physicians earning a 3.4 percent increase, specialty physicians earning a 4.4 percent increase and advanced practice providers earning 2.9 percent more, according to data from the Medical Group Management Association.

In recent months, Becker's has compiled average annual salary information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for healthcare professions, including registered nurses, physician assistants, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses.

Across the nation's more than 6,000 hospitals, chief executives made an average annual salary of $242,550, compared to phlebotomists, who made an average of $34,750 per year, according to Business Insider.