Exactly 400 of the 8,140 health information management professionals employed in Missouri, work in Columbia. There has been a 208% growth in the number of health information management professionals in Columbia between the years 2006 and 2010. As the number of health information management professionals in Columbia has increased, overall employment in Columbia has also increased.

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In Columbia, salaries for health information management professionals have decreased. In 2010 Columbia health information management professionals earned an average yearly salary of $56,965. Health information management professionals in Columbia made a yearly average salary of $86,270, four years earlier in 2006. The decline in the salary of health information management professionals in Columbia is faster than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Health information management professionals make a median salary of $53,420 per year in Columbia. The 10% of health information management professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $29,100 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately $93,035 per year.

On average health information management professional salaries in Columbia are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

Many of Columbia's health information management professionals are graduates of the only accredited health information management school in the city.

Columbia's health information management schools offer 2 health information management degree and certificate programs.

In 2010 approximately 40 students completed health information management courses.