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Mass General Brigham battle pits $400K top nurse pay against $8.4M CEO
Boston Herald • • business
Key Points:
- Nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, part of Mass General Brigham (MGB), ended a one-day strike but remain in conflict with management over wage increases amid the state's largest nurses' strike.
- Hospital CEO Dr. Anne Klibanski earned $8.4 million in 2023, while the top 100 nurses at BWH earned between $237,000 and $412,299, highlighting a disparity in pay amid union demands for cost-of-living raises.
- The Massachusetts Nurses Association argues that nurses deserve raises to keep up with a 50% rise in the cost of living since 2020 and to retain staff amid competitive wages at other hospitals.
- MGB proposed wage increases of 5% across most pay steps and 2.5% at the top step without raising base wages but emphasized added value through benefits, while stating union demands would significantly increase labor costs.
- The ongoing dispute involves a strike by 4,000 nurses and a lockout by MGB, with the hospital employing over 1,300 agency nurses to maintain operations during the work stoppage.
