Health Care Staff Compensation Survey
Take advantage of comprehensive staff compensation benchmarks to support competitive, equitable and market-aligned practices for your pay programs.
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National Benchmarks for
All of Health Care
The most relevant staff compensation survey in the market, collecting compensation data on over 800 jobs. This national survey provides cash compensation market data for health care staff.
Survey Highlights
Benchmarks:
Market payroll data by region, state, organization size, job level and work status, including hourly base rate and total cash compensation for jobs in clinical and nonclinical functions
Detailed on-call pay and shift differential data, including evening, night and weekend coverage, and data on certification, charge, extra-shift, per diem, float pool and preceptor pay
Additional data on FLSA status, union status and incentives
Pay Practices:*
Compensation and governance practices, pay range structures, pay increases, premium pay and variable pay practices
*Only available to participants
Key Details
Updated incumbent and premium pay templates with new instructions tab and hover text functionality for the incumbent and premium pay fields.
Added new incumbent and premium pay fields collecting data on annual incentive thresholds, other cash award types and shift differential types provided.
Job list expanded to include 50 new jobs in the following job families: finance and accounting, human resources, information technology, marketing and communications, nursing and care management and more.
Download a sample of the 2025 survey report.
Your time is valuable, which is why we’ve designed our survey systems to minimize your effort and provide an easy and flexible experience.
Data collected through our secure, online data collection.
Submit data once and qualify for all applicable surveys.
Prepopulated prior-year data whenever possible.
Submit compensation data through an Excel file upload.
Delegate survey tasks across your organization to other colleagues.
Enhanced multiphase auditing process helps to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts on hand to assist with any questions.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts to assist with any questions.
Exclusive participant pricing and bundles as well as early submission discounts.
Early access to benchmarks and pay practices reports.
Input on preferred topics for future surveys.
Access to pulse survey results covering hot topics.
Complimentary access to pay practices reports when submitting to those survey sections.
The compensation benchmarks and pay practices report are delivered via SullivanCotter’s web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite – providing users with self-serve analytics dashboards for their unique reporting needs.
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Key Dates:
Opens: January 6, 2026
Early Submission: February 24, 2026
Closes: March 13, 2026
Publication: July 2026
Current Status: Closed
2026 Pricing*:
Participants: $1,350
Health Care Nonparticipants (i.e., Direct Care Delivery): $5,400
Non-Health Care Organizations: Call 888.739.7039 for Pricing
Early Submission Discount: $300 Off Participant Price
Additional Modular Pricing
* Report pricing for the national survey report only includes access to the most prevalent 200 survey jobs. Additional benchmarks are available through the modular pricing structure.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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More details regarding submission and publication dates can be found here.
More details regarding pricing options can be found here. Non-health care nonparticipants will need to call 888.739.7039 for pricing information. Participants can receive $300 off the participant price by submitting their organization’s data by the early submission deadline
The survey report includes benchmarks, electronic data table results and a pay practices report.
Pay practices reports are complimentary to organizations who have answered all questions labeled as required in the corresponding survey sections.
Our benchmarks, electronic data table results and pay practices reports are delivered via our web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite.
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