Health Care Workforce Support

Strengthen your health care workforce management with flexible, embedded support from SullivanCotter that’s built for ongoing execution.

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When Compensation Complexity Outpaces Capacity


Health care organizations face workforce shortages, rising labor costs, compliance pressures, and increasingly complex compensation—with HR and compensation teams facing demanding needs.

Yet many teams lack internal bandwidth or specialized expertise to sustain consistent compensation management at scale. The challenge is not strategy alone—it is day-to-day execution.

HR & Compensation Teams Must Deliver

Accurate market benchmarking

Regulatory compliance and governance

Data-driven compensation planning

Ongoing compensation administration

Operational execution during leadership gaps

Our Co-Sourcing Approach

Embed

We integrate into your human resources and compensation operations and daily workflow.

Diagnose

We identify root-cause issues through overall program assessments and operational improvement opportunities.

Enable

We deliver sustained performance through execution, process improvement, technology optimization, and internal capability development.

Partnering with SullivanCotter

A Smarter Model for Ongoing
Compensation Management

SullivanCotter’s co-sourcing model delivers ongoing health care compensation support—not one-time consulting projects, and not traditional interim staffing.

We embed within your HR and compensation function to provide continuous operational execution, benchmarking insight, and process discipline.

By combining proprietary health care compensation benchmarking data with hands-on operational support, we help organizations transform compensation management from reactive administration to structured, market-aligned execution.

Whether addressing workforce volatility, system transitions, compliance risk, or leadership vacancies, our co-sourcing model provides stability today and strengthens your compensation function for the future.

SullivanCotter’s Core Co-Sourcing Services

Our co-sourcing model integrates experienced workforce and compensation professionals into your organization—delivering operational continuity, market insight, and regulatory discipline when you need it most.

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Executive & Employee Services

Ongoing Health Care Compensation & Workforce Support

Our co-sourcing engagements focus on recurring, operational compensation management—work that requires continuity, accuracy, and embedded expertise.

Market Benchmarking & Competitive Analysis

Conduct ongoing compensation benchmarking using a consistent methodology. Provide internal equity analysis, salary grade recommendations, and pay structure guidance aligned with health care market trends.

Compensation Planning & Administration

Support annual salary structure reviews, supplemental pay modeling, cost projections, and implementation. Ensure disciplined compensation planning and execution aligned with organizational strategy.

Compensation Data Management

Strengthen data governance, manage compensation survey submissions, oversee job mapping, and improve reporting accuracy across HRIS and market pricing platforms.

HRIS and Compensation Technology Support

Optimize compensation systems, organize workforce data, and ensure accurate compensation administration through integrated technology management.

M&A and Integration Support

Consolidate job data, harmonize compensation processes, and provide ongoing operational support during health care system integrations.

Job Description & Leveling Support

Develop and maintain job descriptions aligned with market pricing, leveling structures, and internal governance standards.

Ongoing Advisory & Regulatory Support

Provide embedded advisory on market movement, compliance requirements, legislative updates, and compensation governance best practices.

Dedicated Compensation Operational Support

Integrate a SullivanCotter professional into your team to:

  • Serve as a compensation point-of-contact
  • Manage recurring compensation administration
  • Conduct market analysis
  • Support onboarding and internal training
  • Maintain operational workflow continuity
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Clinical Services

Ongoing Health Care Compensation & Workforce Support

Our Co-Sourcing engagements focus on recurring, operational compensation management—work that requires continuity, accuracy, and embedded expertise.

Market Benchmarking & Competitive Analysis

Conduct ongoing compensation benchmarking using a consistent methodology. Provide internal equity analysis, salary grade recommendations, and pay structure guidance aligned with health care market trends.

Compensation Planning & Administration

Support annual salary structure reviews, supplemental pay modeling, cost projections, and implementation. Ensure disciplined compensation planning and execution aligned with organizational strategy.

Compensation Data Management

Strengthen data governance, manage compensation survey submissions, oversee job mapping, and improve reporting accuracy across HRIS and market pricing platforms.

HRIS & Compensation Technology Support

Optimize compensation systems, organize workforce data, and ensure accurate compensation administration through integrated technology management.

Ongoing Advisory & Regulatory Support

Provide embedded advisory on market movement, compliance requirements, legislative updates, Fair Market Value and compensation governance best practices.

Dedicated Compensation Operational Support

Integrate a SullivanCotter professional into your team to:

  • Serve as a compensation point-of-contact
  • Manage recurring compensation administration
  • Conduct market analysis
  • Support onboarding and internal training
  • Maintain operational workflow continuity

Why SullivanCotter

We don’t just recommend—we execute, improve, and sustain.

SullivanCotter Combines:

30+ years of health care compensation expertise

Proprietary compensation benchmarking data

Deep regulatory knowledge

Operational execution experience

Our Co-Sourcing Model Delivers:

Ongoing workforce and compensation support

Reduced operational strain

Improved compensation governance

Data-driven decision-making

Long-term internal capability

“Through our co-sourcing model, we embed our expertise, tools, and insights alongside your team to diagnose workforce challenges across people, process, and technology—and enable lasting solutions that turn insight into sustained performance.”

— Sally LaFond, Managing Director, SullivanCotter

Insights Into Workforce Management

Explore SullivanCotter’s comprehensive survey data—including compensation, workforce, and performance benchmarks—to inform workforce planning decisions and support operating model and care delivery evolution.

Health Care Workforce Premium Bundle

Includes six survey reports: Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity, Health Care Management and Executive Compensation, Health Care Staff Compensation, Medical Group Executive Compensation, Physician Compensation and Productivity, and Physician Executive Compensation.

Health Care Workforce Bundle

Includes four survey reports: Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity, Health Care Management and Executive Compensation, Health Care Staff Compensation, and Physician Compensation and Productivity.

Health Care Staff and Nursing Bundle

Includes two survey reports: Health Care Staff Compensation and Registered Nursing Compensation.

Pulse on the Industry

Stay up to date with the latest research and thought leadership from SullivanCotter on issues related to compensation design, total rewards, and related challenges such as talent retention and leadership succession.

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Let’s Architect Your Solution

Ready to add thoughtful design to your workforce compensation design and total rewards focus? Contact SullivanCotter to get started.

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