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. 2008 Jun;49(3):298–306. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2008.3.298

Table 5.

Overview of the relation between job complexity index for healthcare employees, as a basis for calculating salaries

Healthcare employees Category station Job complexity index
Head of the University Hospital Center in Zagreb and clinical hospitals 1st 3.50
Deputy head of University Hospital Center and clinical hospitals 3.20
Assistant of the head of University Hospital Center and clinical hospitals 3.10
Superintendent of a clinic 3.10
Chief nurse in a state institution 1st 1.35
Chief nurse in a clinic 1.28
High qualifications, healthcare employee, specialist + general practitioner in a hospital 1st 2.35
High professional qualifications health care employee; specialist 2.00
High professional qualification health care employee 1.61
Healthcare employee working in intensive care unit, on hospital infection control, patronage; engineer of medical radiology, 2nd 1.18
Healthcare employees (nurses, health care technician) 1.07
Healthcare employee working on open sources of radiation, with cytostatics, AIDS treatment, in an intensive care unit, instrumentation, hemodialysis, obstetrics, emergency department, anesthesiology 3rd 1.10
Nurse in a polyclinic service, diagnostics; health care technician 0.92
A highly qualified driver in the Croatian emergency health care service 0.95