Advance for Health Information Professionals published their annual HIM professionals’ salary survey results in the December Issue (pages 12-15). For the convenience of The Factoring Blog’s HIM readership, we’ve included some of the more pertinent findings below:

• 90% of respondents are full-time HIM professionals (up from 88% in 2008)
• 64% of those who responded to the survey are employed as a HIM director, coder, MT or cancer registrar
• Only 19% of respondents indicated that they were working more than 45 hours/week
• 46% said their salary had NOT increased from 2008
• 8% said their salary actually DECREASED from 2008