Coders’ National Salary Survey: Average salary holds steady at $47K

Why This Topic Matters

It offers a practical compensation snapshot for the coding workforce and highlights how pay varies across common roles, practice environments, and credentials.

Article Sections

1. Survey overview and methodology

   Introduces the national salary survey, the respondent group, and the general approach used to summarize the results.

2. Compliance titles anchor the top tier of the salary chart

   Summarizes compensation patterns across selected job-title groupings and compares broad salary levels among common coding-related roles.

3. "Coding specialists" average $18/hour

   Covers hourly wage reporting and compares average hourly compensation across grouped coding-related titles.

4. Multi-specialty and anesthesia pay best

   Reviews salary differences by practice structure and specialty category, including comparisons between single-specialty and multi-specialty settings.

5. Organization - and practice - size matters

   Examines how compensation varies with the number of physician practice locations in an organization and the size of the practice itself.

6. Salaries in South Central region inch ahead of Pacific and Northeast

   Discusses regional compensation patterns and summarizes how salaries differ across U.S. regions represented in the survey.

7. Education and certification do increase your bottom line

   Looks at how education level and professional credentialing relate to salary patterns in the survey results.

8. Average 2008 Salary by Select Title and Specialty

   Presents a title-by-specialty salary breakdown for selected physician specialties and coding-related roles.