Geographic Variation in Average Salary Expense Among Rural Hospitals Nationwide, 2018–2022
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Description
Examines the change in hospital wages between 2018–2019 and 2021–2022, with a focus on the geographic variation in these changes among Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals. Describes the variation in average salary expense per full-time equivalent (FTE) employee for rural hospitals from 2018 to 2022. Appendices include the median salary expense per FTE of rural hospitals each year by U.S. Census region, state Medicaid expansion status, Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA), Frontier and Remote Area (FAR) code, and by state.
Date
04/2026
Organization
North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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Healthcare business and finance
· Hospitals
· Medicaid
· Policy
· Rural-urban differences
· State-by-state data
· Statistics and data
· State-by-state