Total Compensation and Workforce Performance Surveys


Credible, comprehensive benchmarking resources designed with your organization in mind.

Provides critical benchmarking data on executive and management compensation trends and pay practices. For over 30 years, this survey has been the largest of its kind for health care organizations nationwide.

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Gain access to compensation and incentive data specific to independent health plans and those owned by health systems.

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Focusing on the broad population of registered nurses navigating the complex and fast-changing landscape of health care organizations, this survey provides insights on nursing salary trends and pay practices.

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Shares detailed total cash compensation data on physicians in C-suite, service line and other key executive roles.

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Provides vital total compensation benchmarking data on key executive positions collected from both independent medical groups and those owned by health systems.

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Uniquely focused on only health care organizations, this survey helps organizations address challenges related to executive and physician benefits programs, including optimizing benefits offerings, implementing retirement plans for evolving executive and physician roles and keeping pace with emerging trends in paid time off, severance and disability programs.

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This survey offers a comprehensive look into pay levels, practices and trends among the investment staff of university endowments, foundations and other not-for-profit organizations.

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For over 30 years, this survey continues to be the largest and most comprehensive dataset of its kind and provides compensation, pay practices and productivity benchmarking data for employed physicians and PhD clinicians and researchers.

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As the largest medical group compensation dataset in the market, this survey offers a comprehensive look into pay practices and productivity across a wide spectrum of physician specialties.

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This one-of-a-kind survey provides deep insight to on-call pay rates and practices. These data are virtually impossible to find elsewhere.

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This survey provides insight into compensation topics specific to hospital-based physicians with a focus on understanding work effort and related compensation structures.

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Offers unique insights on advanced practice provider compensation levels, trends and pay practices.

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This survey identifies leadership roles and responsibilities clarifies the different levels of leadership and evaluates the infrastructure in place to help support the practice and management of APPs.

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This survey provides critical utilization and benchmarking data to support comprehensive APP workforce strategies.

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This longstanding national survey provides cash compensation market data for both clinical and nonclinical health care staff positions. Empower your organization with critical data-driven insight!

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This survey helps health care organizations understand how their workforce size, distribution and cost compares to market practices.

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Strengthening Total Compensation Solutions through Data-Driven Intelligence and Insights

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Advantages of Survey Participation


Participants have access to critical data to make informed compensation decisions.

Contribute to Gain Participation Privileges

Your participation helps ensure our surveys remain among the best in the industry, providing you with the most comprehensive information available. In addition, participants receive exclusive, discounted pricing on valuable data and reports and early access to survey results.

Participation in our surveys is made easy through our online data collection tool

SullivanCotter maintains strict confidentiality regarding all survey data submissions, and all of our surveys adhere to the safe harbor guidelines published by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

Participants receive the following benefits:


  • Obtain complimentary reports for some surveys and substantial discounts for others.
  • Have access to the Consultants who conduct these surveys to answer any technical questions participants may have regarding the survey data.
  • Are the first to obtain the survey data when they are published.
  • Have the opportunity to provide feedback and input on what they would like to have surveyed in the future.

Custom Surveys


When health care and not-for-profit organizations need highly specific executive, employee or physician compensation and benefits data, they come to SullivanCotter.

Not only can our experienced advisers help you mine current data sources, we can customize surveys and analyses to match your organization’s specific needs (e.g., sub-specialties in a tertiary care teaching hospital).

And with the SullivanCotter approach, the data may reveal risks and problems, but our experienced advisers can lead and support you in crafting the solutions.

To learn more, contact the Survey Team

Consulting Services


We believe a consulting firm should complement its clients, providing them with an experienced, independent perspective and measurable results based on substantial expertise. That's our consulting philosophy; enhancing each client's ability to achieve goals and support organizational missions through informed, tailored approaches.

Through a combination of expertise, insight and experience, we devise executive compensation strategies that navigate organizations through regulatory compliance to achieve business and performance goals.

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We recognize the importance of physician recruitment, retention and alignment strategies and develop conflict-free compensation plans that attract the right talent, achieve quality outcomes and maintain regulatory compliance.

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The role of the advanced practice provider (APP) in transforming care delivery is critical as the focus on team-based care intensifies and health care organizations seek to drive performance through meeting the strategic goals of improving access, quality, service and affordability

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Our approach uses expertise and tailored processes to help organizational leaders make informed decisions about fiduciary requirements and total compensation program value.

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