COS - 217 - Structuring Associate DVM Pay To Compete
Dr. Karen Felsted DVM, CPA joins Dr. Andy Roark to talk about how practices can structure veterinarian compensation to better compete for new hires. They discuss salaries, production, split rate production, new graduate compensation and what the future of pay for veterinarians may look like.
LINKS: PantheraT Management Consulting: https://www.pantherat.com
ABOUT OUR GUEST: Dr. Karen Felsted is a CPA as well as a veterinarian and has spent the last 20 years working as a financial and operational consultant to veterinary practices and the animal health industry. She is active in multiple veterinary organizations, has written an extensive number of articles for a wide range of veterinary publications and speaks regularly at national and international veterinary meetings. In 2011 and 2017, she was awarded the Western Veterinary Conference Practice Management Continuing Educator of the Year and in 2014, the VetPartners Distinguished Life Member Award.
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