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FEATURE


ASCA’s 2012 ASC Salary & Benefits Survey Reports Modest Increase in Most Salaries


CASC-certified administrators with a clinical background report higher earnings than those without the credential. BY JOE HORNIG


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verall, most salaries for ASC em- ployees rose slightly in 2012, ac-


cording to ASCA’s 2012 Salary & Ben- efits Survey.* Nationally, administrator salaries increased by 5%, business office manager salaries by 3.6%, director of nursing salaries by 3.3% and materials manager salaries by 1.2%. Also according to the report, medi- cal directors and administrators who worked in single-specialty ASCs had higher median salaries than those who worked in multi-specialty ASCs. Con- versely, business officer managers, di- rectors of nursing, materials managers and registered nurses who worked in multi-specialty ASCs had higher me- dian salaries than those who worked in single-specialty ASCs.


Median Salary Distribution


By region, New Jersey, New York and Puerto Rico boasted the high- est median salaries for eight dif- ferent positions, including admin- istrator, medical director, certified nursing assistant, instrument tech- nician, licensed practical nurse, ra- diology technician, scheduling clerk and maintenance/cleaning staff.


Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, on the other hand, had the lowest median salaries for eight positions, including direc- tor of nursing, business office man- ager, licensed practical nurse, surgical technologist, insurance clerk, recep- tionist/admitting clerk, scheduling clerk and maintenance/cleaning staff.


For the first time, results from ASCA’s 2012 ASC Employee Salary & Benefits Survey are now available to ASCA members online at www. ascassociation.org/SalarySurvey.


One of the key findings from this year’s


survey was the benefit of being CASC (Certified Administrator Surgery Center) certified. Without the CASC certification, an administrator with a clinical back- ground had a median salary of $92,872. With the CASC certification, however, an administrator with a clinical background had a median salary of $110,000. This year, ASCA’s Salary & Ben-


efits Survey collected salary data for three new positions—certified nursing assistant, surgical assistant and surgical technologist. It also collected specialty- specific salary data for six positions— medical director, administrator, business office manager, director of nursing, ma- terials manager and registered nurse. The survey also revealed that, nation-


ally, 22% of ASCs found that it was more difficult to recruit new employees in 2012 than it was in 2011, 68% found the re- cruitment climate to be the same as 2011 and 9% found it to be easier than 2011. Regionally, the recruitment environ- ment improved the most in Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii and Nevada, where 20% of ASCs reported that re- cruiting new employees was easier in 2012 than it was in 2011 and 64% re- ported that it was the same. ASCs in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas experi-


CAREERS SPECIAL FEATURE—


enced the most difficulty recruiting new employees as 36% reported that recruit- ing had become more difficult in 2012 compared to 2011. Only 2% reported that it had gotten easier. Survey results also found that a large percentage of ASCs offer a wide variety of employee benefits. Nationally, 97% of ASCs offer health insurance, 84% offer family health insurance and 79% offer life insurance. In addition, 76% of ASCs nationwide offer a pension or retirement plan as well as flexible hours. ASCA has been conducting this sur-


vey since 1986. This year, 1,122 ASCs participated. The final report provides national salary and benefits data for 19 ASC positions, state-specific reports for 27 states and state-based regional infor- mation for California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas.


ASCA members can access the full results of the 2012 ASC Employee Salary & Benefits survey free at www.ascasso- ciation.org/SalarySurvey. Nonmembers can purchase the results of the survey at www.ascassociation.org/Store.


Best Benefits States


Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming had the highest


percentages of


ASCs that offer employee benefits, including health insurance, family health insurance, conferences and a pension or retirement plan. One hundred percent of the ASCs that participated in the survey from this region offered health insurance.


In contrast, Connecticut, Maine, Mas- sachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont had the lowest percentages for many employee ben- efits, including health insurance, den- tal insurance, vision insurance and conferences. Only 26% of ASCs that participated in the survey from this region offered vision insurance.


* The data reported in ASCA’s 2012 Salary & Benefits Survey is necessarily limited to information received from persons responding to the survey and should not be viewed as representative of the entire field.


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