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Mission Health announces new minimum wage of $12.50/hour

By Bill Moss, Published: October 21, 2019

HCA Healthcare, the new Mission Health owner, has implementing an enterprise-wide minimum wage of $12.50/hour.

At Mission Health, this will be an increase from our current division-wide minimum wage of $11/hour. At this time, only employees who are below the new range minimums will be adjusted. The federal minimum wage is $7.25.

In addition to the new minimum wage, the minimums for grades D and E are being adjusted as well. Those changes include grade C, $11 to $12.50; grade D, $11.35 to $12.75, and grade E, $12.26 to $13.
“At Mission Health, we value our colleagues and will continue to invest in our people by offering competitive compensation and benefit packages,” said Sheila Meadows, VP of Human Resources. “How we recruit, pay, develop and retain our staff is important and key to our success, and we want to continue to attract and retain our best talent and provide our colleagues with compensation that is competitive in today’s market.”