Sullivan Cotter’s 2023 Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey Report highlights proprietary market findings from our latest survey

SullivanCotter can help your organization design a comprehensive executive compensation program that supports your team.

Utilizing data from SullivanCotter’s 2022 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey – which includes information on 10 job families, 6 career level stages, and 3 demographic groupings – organizations can reevaluate their employee workforce planning and distribution efforts to help offset rising costs and create a more sustainable workforce architecture.

SullivanCotter’s Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey includes data from more than 3,000 organizations on nearly 42,500 individual managers and executives - providing health care organizations with critical compensation market data, information on key executive workforce practices, and insight into emerging industry trends.

Learn more from SullivanCotter’s recent Remote Work and Geographic Pay Pulse Survey, which examines how health care organizations are responding to what has changed with respect to remote work policies, geographic pay differentials, and staffing models.

SullivanCotter recently conducted a pulse survey to help pediatric hospitals understand how their peers are addressing 2022 executive salary increase budgets and incentive awards for FY2021 performance.

SullivanCotter conducted a pulse survey to help participants understand how health systems are addressing FY2022 executive salary increase budgets, incentive awards for FY2021 performance and other actions to support executive recruitment and retention in this dynamic market.

This year more than ever, medical groups require access to critical data-driven insights as they look to address the impact of COVID-19 on workforce compensation and productivity, prepare for the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule changes, and balance the need for competitive total reward programs against pressure on operating margins.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2020 Endowment and Investment Staff Compensation Survey

View highlights of the results from SullivanCotter's Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey as well as considerations for using the 2020 benchmark data and navigating future executive compensation decisions in light of COVID-19 and other market dynamics.

View highlights SullivanCotter's COVID-19 Executive and Employee Compensation Practices Survey series - featuring data and insights from more than 108 different organizations.

View highlights from SullivanCotter’s 2019 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey. Now in its 27th year, this survey is the largest and most comprehensive of its kind for hospitals and health systems nationwide.

View highlights from the results of our 2018 Not-for-Profit Manager and Executive Compensation Survey, which features data from 121 organizations and focuses exclusively on compensation and benefits practices in service and charitable organizations, trade and professional associations, research institutes, health plans, education and more.

View highlights from two different sections of SullivanCotter's 2018 Benefits Practices in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, featuring data from more than 200 health care organizations.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2018 Physician Executive Compensation Survey and 2018 Medical Group Executive Compensation Survey

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2018 Manager and Executive Compensation in Hospitals and Health Systems Survey, which features data from over 2,300 organizations on more than 32,000 individual managers and executives.

As health care undergoes unprecedented change and the marketplace for talent grows increasingly competitive, hospitals and health systems must design executive compensation programs that effectively support the organization’s talent management strategy.

Executive compensation programs are evolving to meet the needs of business transformation while providing compelling and sustainable rewards in an uncertain environment.

To help ensure the effective governance of executive compensation, SullivanCotter recommends developing a Compensation Committee Handbook –- a valuable resource that can be made available to all Committee members.

As health care continues to evolve, pediatric hospitals and health systems face a unique set of challenges in the way they recruit, engage and retain key executive talent. Adapting to industry transformation and aligning executive incentive plan design and reward strategies with both the organization’s annual and long-term goals is critical, and requires a close review of health care industry norms and best practices.