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workers ($78,010).
Ultimately, it's a question of perspective. Loving your job goes a long way, whether you make $50,000 a year or $150,000 a year.
Or as Karen Gabbert, RN, BSN, center director for the Surgery Center of Kansas in Wichita, puts it: "Who's to say what is adequate compensation for what we do? I was hired to do a job and it is my passion to do it to the best of my ability. I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to work where I do and with the people that surround me every day. It isn't always all about the
money."
— Jim Burger
