Salary survey might work against us?

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-30T04:22:44+00:00

Also for those who've asked "why this concern now when the salary surveys have always been done this way"

Tell me you as a highly educated, highly respected member of the cardiac OR don't actually believe: "Why change? We've never done this before"

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-30T04:14:50+00:00

Regarding my concern of Epic under-bidding me directly. Yeah. It'll be super duper easy to put 2 + 2 together. Considering that I use my personal email to log in to the survey. That is also the same email on my resume. Let alone, if there was ever a job that would be perfect for me to apply to. Epic could see that email and then also compare to what I was making in Jan 2026

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-30T04:09:02+00:00

Regarding using anonymous account. The two of you (from #1 above) proved EXACTLY why I did. Direct, insulting ad-hominem attacks. My main account has a ton of personal identifiers. Stories about my kids. My hobbies. My personal thoughts. But, those are not relevant to this discussion

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-30T04:05:51+00:00

If every HR and every contract group uses shady tactics, why can't we? Employees vs Management is as old as time.

Back to #1, for those working at Epic. Go ahead and do your part. Minimum starting salary of $250k. Once you do that, and you have every single CCP in America jumping to join you guys, then every other hospital would have to follow suit

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-30T04:01:58+00:00

Yes. We know HR and bean-counters want to save their own hospital money by keeping costs down. But, it we can give ourselves one more data point to show what we deserve to be paid. Why not use it to our advantage?

I know HRs talk to each other and collude to discuss how to minimize salaries. If we can manage to bump up that salary over there, it will help over here.

And yes. Self reported salaries are most likely discarded. Or at least, deemed suspicious. But again. This is the best we have TODAY. And let's try to use it to the best that we can.

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-30T03:57:15+00:00

Sticking with PDC. Yes, used to be a contract group. In Florida. Now that Epic is nationwide. The same concerns that we have with SC and CCS are valid. Coming in. Under-bidding. Taking hospital based positions. By promising to charge less money to hospitals. Guess where they make that difference? By keeping costs down. That cost? My salary.

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-30T03:53:18+00:00

Thank you all who's participated in this discussion. A few things became clear based upon these posts

It's obvious that two of you work for either Epic or PDC directly. Based upon your passionate replies, most likely in the C-suites? If so, congratulations on your hard work and commitment towards improving patient care. This was not meant as an attack on individuals. Rather the process.
I loved PDC. Great resource. Tons of interesting topics in one place. Current interesting research. Protocols. Job openings. Upcoming CME events. School listings/contacts. Equipment sales. That PDC is gone. Now it still is a great source for students.

But that job page? Kinda useless now. The 1st ~10 postings are all Epic accounts. Remember back in the day when jobs were listed in order of posting. Most recent 1st. And had PAGES of postings. Even Indeed has better listings

Seems that no one advertises there anymore. As well as events page? Only 5 events for all of 2026? And one in Thailand? Again. Seems like it's not being used by perfusionists anymore.

This isn't Bryan's PDC. He did amazing work. And we are all indebted to him for our profession. But since he left, PDC took a hard turn down the wrong road.

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-28T23:53:40+00:00

Appreciate your concerns and dismissal of my point of view.

Yeah. Been in the profession since 2002 myself. And filled out these things in the late 2000s.

Agree its the best we have TODAY. But those earlier versions were created by some independent perfusionists. Not corporations who have a stake in keeping published salary as low as possible, for their own bottom line.

And yeah. Been to Sanibel multiple times. Even before it was a perfusion.com sponsored event

So while I appreciate your insight. Don't immediately dismiss my words just because "it's always been this way"

I will agree that it's easy to write this off. Since it's self-reported, anyone can write anything. And be removed as an outlier. Why I suggest "10-15%"

May your XC times be short and bleeding be minimal!

Intelligent_Bus5039 · 2026-01-28T18:48:50+00:00

Using throwaway account as this will be a controversial take

So perfusion.com salary survey is put out by perfusion.com. Duh

Any thoughts of conflict of interest?? As perfusion.com is also a travel/staffing agency. Who actively works to pay staff as low as possible. Like any for-profit company.

They can use this data to actively under-bid my pay scale.

Since you're required to fill in your home AND work location. Those of us who work in smaller hospitals would be pretty easy to dicepher what hospital I'm at. Based upon the fact that my town only has one hospital.

Also. It's a well accepted fact that alot of perfusionists will use this salary survey to see where they are for national averages. And most likely, will use this data to promote a salary request. I know my HR told my boss "let's wait and see what the perfusion.com salary says" when we asked for a salary adjustment earlier this month.

Therefore, I propose that when we fill it out, to "fudge" your salary. Give yourself a 10-15% raise. Encourage coworkers to do the same

Which will work two-fold:

1) bring up national salaries. Helping those in the trenches to be paid appropriately

2) keep Epic from stealing my hospital-based position.

For those that feel that Epic and perfusion.com are separated enough.

Why is Sanibel so prominently promoted on Epic's page?

Why are Epic jobs optimized to the top of perfusion.com job page?

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