Pay for nurse practitioners and physician assistants increased over the last year, according to the 2019 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey from the American Medical Group Association.
The AMGA included responses from 117,000 providers representing 272 medical groups in its survey.
How pay and productivity changed for physician assistants and nurse practitioners:
Physician assistants
Compensation: 2.5 percent increase
Work relative value unit (productivity): 0.05 percent decrease
Nurse practitioners
Compensation: 2.92 percent increase
Work relative value unit (productivity): 3.46 percent increase