Liaison vs clinical liaison

The differences between liaisons and clinical liaisons can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 6-12 months to become a liaison, becoming a clinical liaison takes usually requires 1-2 years. Additionally, a clinical liaison has an average salary of $66,331, which is higher than the $53,737 average annual salary of a liaison.

The top three skills for a liaison include patients, customer service and home health. The most important skills for a clinical liaison are patients, home health, and rehabilitation.

Liaison vs clinical liaison overview

	Liaison	Clinical Liaison
Yearly salary	$53,737	$66,331
Hourly rate	$25.84	$31.89
Growth rate	12%	6%
Number of jobs	34,074	237,166
Job satisfaction	5	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 62%	Bachelor's Degree, 54%
Average age	43	44
Years of experience	12	2

What does a liaison do?

A liaison is a middle person responsible for collaborating different institutes, managing professional relationships to create benefiting results that would help a business' meet its goals and objectives. Duties of a liaison include facilitating communications, establishing partnership contract plans and procedures, managing conflicts, providing immediate resolution for concerns, and evaluating collaboration parameters. A liaison must be highly knowledgeable about the subject matters of the represented organization, handling inquiries, and coming up with strategic solutions to make the project successful.

What does a clinical liaison do?

A clinical liaison's role is to promote health care and rehabilitation facilities to patients and their families. Their responsibilities revolve around devising strategies to reach sales targets, reviewing patient cases, having an in-depth understanding of the facilities and potential patients, assisting clients in filling up paperwork, maintaining records and data of all transactions, and addressing inquiries and concerns. Furthermore, a clinical liaison may perform clerical tasks such as producing reports, answering calls and correspondence, and arranging meetings and appointments with clients. Should there be any issues, it is essential to report to the managers or supervisors promptly.

Liaison vs clinical liaison salary

Liaisons and clinical liaisons have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Liaison	Clinical Liaison
Average salary	$53,737	$66,331
Salary range	Between $30,000 And $95,000	Between $39,000 And $111,000
Highest paying City	Washington, DC	Sacramento, CA
Highest paying state	Washington	California
Best paying company	Apple	Intuitive Surgical
Best paying industry	Manufacturing	Manufacturing

Differences between liaison and clinical liaison education

There are a few differences between a liaison and a clinical liaison in terms of educational background:

	Liaison	Clinical Liaison
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 62%	Bachelor's Degree, 54%
Most common major	Business	Nursing
Most common college	Northwestern University	University of Pennsylvania

Liaison vs clinical liaison demographics

Here are the differences between liaisons' and clinical liaisons' demographics:

	Liaison	Clinical Liaison
Average age	43	44
Gender ratio	Male, 41.9% Female, 58.1%	Male, 23.4% Female, 76.6%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 12.3% Unknown, 5.2% Hispanic or Latino, 18.2% Asian, 6.9% White, 55.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.2%	Black or African American, 10.6% Unknown, 4.3% Hispanic or Latino, 9.5% Asian, 9.0% White, 66.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	11%	9%

Differences between liaison and clinical liaison duties and responsibilities

Liaison example responsibilities.

Manage and increase social activity of the WVUncovered twitter account.
Manage and create original content for all social media platforms (twitter, instagram, tumblr).
Manage social media outlets for the organization; such as Facebook, update weekly status and weekly inspirational videos.
Educate physician group practices to reduce hospitalizations, increase positive patient outcomes & achieve meaningful use of EMR systems.
Perform assessments on ICU patients and market to many members of the health care team.
Work predominantly ICU cases, acquiring considerable experience with high-level complex patients.

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Clinical liaison example responsibilities.

Manage social media outlets for the organization; such as Facebook, update weekly status and weekly inspirational videos.
Provide crisis intervention and triage services to clients in compassionate and responsible manner, serving individually tailor services to clients.
Perform clinical evaluations to determine if patients would qualify with acute rehab criteria and review with physicians.
Communicate with physicians regarding prospective patients and their diagnosis, rehabilitation needs and expectations of family prior to admission.
Spearhead marketing and business initiatives to increase patient referrals for skil nursing facility specializing in rehabilitation services for senior adults.
Provide elbow support for physicians learning to navigate Cerner and use PowerPlans.

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Liaison vs clinical liaison skills

Common liaison skills

Patients, 24%
Customer Service, 14%
Home Health, 10%
Rehabilitation, 5%
Social Work, 5%
Patient Care, 5%

Common clinical liaison skills

Patients, 26%
Home Health, 11%
Rehabilitation, 7%
Patient Care, 6%
Social Work, 5%
Customer Service, 5%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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