How much do professionals in medical administration make per year?

The median salary in 2012 for health care executives and health care administrators was $88,580, or $42.59 per hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The upper 10 percent made more than $150,560, and the bottom 10 percent pocketed less than $53,940.

Considerations such as the kind of facility and how big it is influence a medical administrator's salary. Practices that have six or fewer physicians provide a average compensation of $87,862 for their medical administrators, while administrators at those places with seven to 25 physicians made $126,478. The average annual salary for medical administrators at sites with 26 or more physicians was $148,604.