Median Salary

• The median salary of a hospital or other health care consultant was $96,000 per year, as of 2010, according to CNN Money. The BLS does not provide a median salary for hospital consultants, but it does indicate an average salary of $99,570 for medical and health services managers working in hospital settings.
  
  

Pay Scale

• An examination of the pay scale for medical and health services managers provides additional context for the salaries of hospital consultants. Whereas the median salary for hospital consultants was $96,000, the BLS indicates that medical and health services managers made a median salary of $84,270 per year. Those in the middle 50 percent made between $65,650 and $109,490 annually, while the highest-paid managers made $144,880 or more per year. The highest-paid consultants made $174,000 in 2010, according to CNN Money.
  
  

Location

• Location also provides an indication of what hospital consultants and other health services managers can expect to make. According to the BLS, California and New York were the states with the highest levels of employment for medical and health services managers. Managers and consultants in California earned an average salary of $105,190 per year, while those working in New York earned $108,090, on average. The highest-paid professionals in this field worked in Massachusetts and Washington and made average salaries of $112,670 and $109,670, respectively.
  
  

Job Outlook

• According to the BLS, jobs in the medical and health services field should grow at a rate of 16 percent during the period from 2008 to 2018, a rate faster than average for all other professions. CNN Money indicates that the job market for health care consultants should grow at an even faster rate of 24 percent during this period. Despite the growth in available jobs, the BLS indicates that stiff competition will also be the norm since the allure of these high paying careers will draw many applicants to apply for open positions.