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Article: HPN pay poll: infection control professionals earn 4.9% salary increase.(Infection Connection)
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- Healthcare Purchasing News
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- September 1, 2003
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The overall earnings of men and women employed in infection control increased by 4.9 percent in 2003 over 2002, an average increase that outstripped the pay raises earned this year in many healthcare fields. The rise in average salaries amounted to an increase above the generally acknowledged national average of about 3 percent. That's the results revealed by the exclusive 2003 Healthcare Purchasing News survey of infection control personnel salaries, the third year that HPN has looked at the infection control community's pay.
Respondents to the e-mail sampling of HPN readers, 74 percent of whom said they received a pay increase this year, earn an average salary ...