POCC Salary

Upper Midwest here. We have 2 hospitals - 400 beds between the two. I am also technical consultant to a surgery center and off site nursery and have testing in 3 off site clinics.

I fall under the Technical Specialist category. I don't know the pay range but I'm thinking the median is around $40/hr. I was a bench tech for 17 years before taking this position - I don't feel I got a big enough bump in the transition. I was told by HR that I "already made too much as a tech".

I am the only Lab POC Coordinator for a physician office group of 80+ offices, soon to acquire 50+ more:  1 highly complex office, 3 mod, and the remaining are PPM or waived.  Also serve as a liaison between the offices and hospital labs.

I have my BS in MLS and 4 years of POC experience, salary $60k/year.

Located in Michigan.

Thank you everyone! I appreciate your input. This is very helpful as I have not had much luck in doing searches for a POCC salary. I did reach out to my HR department and found that our bench tech pay scale is higher than the POCC pay scale, which I found surprising.

We used to have separate job descriptions for our POC techs and POC supervisors, and they were paid less than bench techs and supervisors. We had a lot of trouble finding techs and supervisors for POCT, in spite of the flexible schedule and no holidays or weekends except for call. I lost quite a few folks to the clinical labs. My director and I went to HR and asked that our folks be listed as techs and supervisors the same as the lab, just that the department would be POCT. We did that a few years ago, and all the salaries/hourly are equivalent to the other lab jobs. It has made it much easier to attract good candidates. 

My management was pro-active when they created this position. My job title is POCT Coordinator/CLS. In this way I still have claims to being a Clinical Laboratory Scientist. We discovered that how titles can impact salary. When we moved from MT to CLS, it placed us in a different category from other "techs".