What is it about?
Current salary data for speech pathologists is provided for clinicians across medical settings, however, there is currently no data that reported on area of expertise. This study investigates how much voice and upper airway (VUAD) SLPs are making as compared to government wage data.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that VUAD SLPs make significantly more than prevailing wage data in all regions but the Northeast. This data can be used to help VUAD SLPs negotiate wage and benefits with prospective employers.
Perspectives
Voice and Upper Airway SLPs bring a specific skill set to the patients and setting where they work. This study gives those clinicians reassurance that compensation is adequate in most areas, and that while other factors aren't significantly related to salary they can be used as leverage points to position themselves better when compared to other candidates. The findings from this article gave me some guidance in how to leverage myself and ask for additional compensation and I hope that it is a tool that helps many other clinicians.
Catherine Whiteside
University of Colorado
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This page is a summary of: Salary Benchmarking for Voice-Specialized Speech-Language Pathologists, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, October 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2024_persp-24-00101.
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