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What the wage survey shows

The national median is $123,860 a year, and the bottom tenth sit near $73,390. Take this one with care. The federal survey has no health information manager line, so the job is counted inside medical and health services managers, a group that also holds hospital chief executives and nursing home administrators. Those people pull the median up. A first health information management job pays nearer the bottom of this range than the middle.