Industry path · Healthcare & life sciences
MBA careers in Healthcare
Healthcare employers — providers, payers, pharma, and health tech — hire MBAs into strategy, operations, and commercial leadership.
- Mapped roles
- 3
- occupations MBAs take in healthcare
- With wage data
- 3
- published benchmarks
- Median wage span
- $102k–$124k
- across mapped roles
- Verified MBA outcomes
- 0
- still being collected
What MBA roles in healthcare pay
Wage ranges for the occupations MBAs commonly fill in healthcare — the soft band is the 10th–90th percentile, the solid band the middle 50%, the marker the median. These are occupational wage benchmarks across all workers, not MBA-specific salaries, but they show how pay is structured in this industry.
These are occupational wage benchmarks for roles MBA graduates commonly target — wage context across all workers, not verified MBA-specific outcomes.
Medical and Health Services Managers
$123,860median
The core health-system leadership occupation.
General and Operations Managers
$105,770median
Operations leadership across providers and payers.
Management Analysts
$101,860median
Healthcare strategy and consulting.
See the full benchmark table▸
| Role (occupation) | Median annual | 10th–90th pct | U.S. employment |
|---|---|---|---|
Medical and Health Services Managers The core health-system leadership occupation. SOC 11-9111 | $123,860 | $73,390 – $224,340 | 597,080 |
General and Operations Managers Operations leadership across providers and payers. SOC 11-1021 | $105,770 | $50,090 – $253,390 | 3,503,020 |
Management Analysts Healthcare strategy and consulting. SOC 13-1111 | $101,860 | $60,640 – $171,640 | 898,280 |
These are occupational wage benchmarks for roles MBA graduates commonly target — wage context across all workers, not verified MBA-specific outcomes.
What MBAs do here
Strategy & operations
Shapes and runs provider/payer initiatives.
Payer / provider leadership
Manages clinical-business operations.
Pharma commercial
Leads commercial strategy for a therapy area.
Functions MBAs run
The teams and remits graduates commonly own in this industry.
What affects your pay on this path
Two people on the same path can earn very differently. These are the factors that move the number most — worth weighing as you plan your MBA.
- Sub-sector (pharma vs. provider vs. payer vs. health tech)
- Clinical vs. corporate role
- System size and geography
- Commercial vs. operational track
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Help us add real salary ranges for MBAs in Healthcare
SalaryMBA is built from real outcomes people share. A reliable range here needs:
- 1A handful of real, reviewed outcomes from people on this path
- 2Their school, role, industry, and city — so ranges reflect like-for-like
- 3Public datasets and school reports to cross-check the numbers