Case Manager Salaries Show Strong Growth Trend

by | Nov 6, 2024

Summary: The 2024 Case Management Salary & Trends Survey reveals an impressive case manager salary growth trend in the profession, with over 36% of case managers earning $100,000 or more annually. The survey also shows continued high job satisfaction among case managers.

What is the Salary for Case Managers?

The Case Management Society of America (CMSA) and Case Management Institute (CMI)‘s 2024 Case Management Salary and Trends Survey reveals compelling salary data for current and prospective case managers. The results demonstrate significant growth in case manager compensation over the past four years.

Today’s case managers see substantial salaries, with 36.1% earning $100,000 or more annually. The largest segment (26.4%) falls within the $80,000-$89,999 range, and 78% earn between $70,000 and $119,999. Notably, only 7.2% earn less than $70,000 annually, representing a dramatic improvement from 2020, when 54% of case managers earned under $70,000.

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The upward trajectory continues, with 71% of case managers reporting a salary increase in the past year alone. This positive trend is further reinforced by the emergence of higher salary brackets, with 3% now earning $170,000 or more, demonstrating exceptional earning potential in the field.

Factors Influencing a Case Manager’s Salary

Several factors impact a case manager’s earning potential. The 2024 survey highlights the importance of experience and role level. For supervisory positions, the earning potential is notably higher, with the largest segment (18.15%) earning $100,000-$109,999 and a significant portion earning substantially more.

Professional certification continues to play a significant role in salary potential. The survey shows that 39.2% of certified case managers reported that certification helped increase their salary. Additionally, 60.03% indicated that certification helped them maintain their position, highlighting its value for job security and career stability.

Work setting also influences compensation. Case managers in insurance/managed care/health plans (37.09% of the workforce) and inpatient healthcare facilities (30.65%) represent the largest employment sectors, often offering competitive salary packages.

Looking at the broader healthcare landscape, case management remains a financially attractive career option, particularly for nurses. The profession continues to offer strong earning potential without requiring additional degrees, making it an appealing career advancement path for healthcare professionals.

These salary trends and the fact that 79% of case managers report satisfaction with their compensation suggest that case management remains a rewarding career choice with strong financial benefits and growth potential. For healthcare professionals considering case management, these trends indicate a profession increasingly recognizing and rewarding case managers’ vital role in healthcare delivery.

Those interested in learning more about case management salaries and trends can access the 2024 Case Management Salary and Trends Report at CMSalaries.com. 

For healthcare professionals considering a career in case management, the Case Management Institute (CMI) offers specialized courses designed to help nurses transition successfully into case management roles. These courses provide the foundational knowledge and skills needed to excel in this rewarding and growing profession.

How Does Your Case Management Salary Compare? (Updated August 2020)

by | Aug 25, 2020 | 2 comments

How does your case management salary compare?

For the most up-to-date information, see our newest article here.

Wonder how your employer compares with others? How does your case management salary compare to the industry? Need a reference to show your employer standards for salary, benefits, caseload, education, certification, and continuing education reimbursement?

We have you covered. The 2020 Salary and Trends Survey provides all this and more.

We’ve updated the salary and trends survey for 2020 and here is an updated summary. The survey was participated in by 1,000 case management professions. It collated valuable data on the case management industry that helps us understand who case managers are, the challenges they face, their salary potential, job satisfaction, and the value they bring to consumers of healthcare and the organizations for which they work.

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Healthcare CRM | A Go-To Tool for Case Managers

by | Aug 11, 2017 | 2 comments

Healthcare CRM A go-to tool for case managersA healthcare CRM system can streamline case management processes to improve patient outcomes, reduce payer denials and support revenue cycle and a great Go-To Tool for Case Managers

Being complex and collaborative, case management implies not only care coordination from admission to discharge, but also advocating for options and services to meet patients’ health needs and achieve improved health outcomes.

Handling this process without any dedicated tools or (even) with outdated technology is troublesome, at best. Sometimes, case managers even have to resort to paper to document patient data or draft a care plan. Accordingly, using ineffective and inconvenient technology for case management can cause business problems. (more…)

How To Earn 75K+ A Year As A Case Manager

by | Apr 18, 2017 | 11 comments

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Are you currently working as a case manager?

Are you making $75,000 or more a year?

The CCM recently released a new survey which reveals some fascinating facts about the growth of Certified Case Managers. As the healthcare world continues to become harder to navigate, the need for qualified case managers is growing rapidly.

As the survey points out, since the Affordable Care Act has become law, the number of case managers holding the CCM credential has risen from around 20,000 to more than 42,000. This is good news for the patients who rely on well-educated, dependable care coordinators to help guide them, and the hard working case managers themselves. Becoming a certified case manager is a win, win for all involved.

Here are just a few reasons to take that next step and become certified.

Increased Earning Potential

According to the latest CCM survey, released at the end of March 2017, the median average salary for Certified Case Managers is between $75,000 – $80,000 a year, well above the average RN or Social Worker salary. Even more interesting is that almost half (45%) earn over $80,000 a year! (more…)

What is a Case Manager?

by | Oct 3, 2015 | 2 comments

What is a Case Manager?I heard that question a lot after accepting my new position as a nurse case manager for a large insurance company. To be truthful, I did not know how to answer the question. I had applied for the job at the suggestion of a friend, even though I did not know what a case manager did.

Even after I was hired I still did not know what a case manager did. My new boss told me not to worry, that I had the qualities needed to be a great case manager, and that she could train me on the rest. Wow, talk about pressure. Then she handed me a book about case management and told me to read it. I was getting paid to read a book, so I didn’t complain.

I had been a case manager for about a year when I finally came up with an answer to the often asked question, “so what do you do?” My reply was, “I educate and support patients with complex medical issues and helped them to navigate the healthcare system.” Sounds good, but what exactly does that mean?

First things first, who needs a Case Manager?

Case management clients are not healthy people trying to prevent disease. They are people with either a chronic illness or injury or a complex acute illness or injury. They can range from a newborn infant born with a congenital heart condition, to a 26 year old with a spinal cord injury following an MVA, to a newly diagnosed Hepatitis C patient in liver failure requiring a liver transplant. (more…)