Physician Executive Compensation Continues Climb (Compensation Survey) (Report‪)‬

Physician executive compensation rose by an average of 7.5 percent--to $258,000 from $240,000--based on 2006 data collected for the 2007 Physician Executive Compensation Survey released by Cejka Search and the American College of Physician Executives (ACPE). As last reported in the 2005 survey, the two-year rate of increase was 6.7 percent. Over the past 10 years, the two-year rate of increase in physician executive compensation has grown to 7.5 percent compared from a 5.9 percent rate of increase published in the 1999 survey, which compared 1996 and 1998 compensation data.