A look at how much home medical equipment professionals are making this year.

GRAB YOUR PAYROLL STUBS - the results are in from HomeCare's Fifth Annual Salary Survey. This year, 374 home medical equipment companies nationwide participated in our research, sharing everything from salaries to benefits to payment terms.

For your convenience, the statistics are broken out in a variety of ways. In some cases, the survey results are broken out by company revenue and number of locations to give you an apples-to-apples look at how other companies compare to your operation. Yet other statistics are presented by geographic region to help you assess the employment market in your area.

Note: Ranges figures indicate the lowest and highest responses received. The 25th Percentile figure is higher than 25 percent of the responses, and the 75th Percentile figure is higher than 75 percent of the responses. The Median is the figure in the exact middle of all responses: Half are less than it, and half are more than it. The average is the sum of all figures divided by the number of figures gathered. Finally, some figures have been rounded off to the nearest whole number. In a few cases, this yields totals that do not add up to 100. But in all cases, we hope you find the statistics of interest and use.

The Editors