Getting Compensation, Benefits, & Rewards Right
Design competitive compensation, benefits, and rewards programs that attract and retain top talent, motivate individual and team performance, and align with your organization’s mission to deliver best-in-class care.
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Pay Matters–But It’s Only Part of the Equation
Competitive pay and PTO are table stakes. Today’s health care leaders are navigating an increasingly constrained talent environment, with persistent shortages across clinical and leadership roles and intensifying competition for experienced professionals. At the same time, care delivery models and workforce expectations are evolving faster.
Organizations must balance rising labor costs, shifting workforce dynamics, and heightened expectations for flexibility, purpose, and performance—all while maintaining financial sustainability.
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Data-Driven Decisions You Can Stand Behind
Health care organizations turn to SullivanCotter to navigate the growing tension between market competitiveness and financial stewardship. In an environment of rising labor costs, increasing regulatory scrutiny, and persistent talent shortages, leaders need more than intuition — they need credible data and experienced guidance they can trust.
By combining the industry’s most trusted compensation, benefits, and performance benchmarks with deep health care consulting expertise, we help organizations design and implement total rewards programs that reflect role expectations, support performance, and remain economically sustainable.
Challenges We Help You Address
Compensation and benefits philosophy, policy, and strategy alignment
Base salary and pay-for-performance plan designs
Cash compensation audits
Cost impact analyses and implementation planning
Defining performance and identifying appropriate value-based metrics
Evaluation of current compensation plans
Education on market trends and work effort allocation methodologies
Survey selection and market benchmarking
Stakeholder interviews and focus groups
Compensation philosophy development
Development of conceptual compensation models
Measurement system and scorecard assessment
Financial modeling and impact assessments
Communication/implementation assistance
Plan administration support
The Science of Staying
With health care workforces under strain—both clinical and supporting—retaining talent depends on recognizing and delivering strategies to artfully address the factors that drive worker satisfaction.
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How We Help
SullivanCotter offers an integrated suite of capabilities to help health care organizations strengthen workforce structures and drive organizational performance.
With more than 35 years of workforce intelligence, SullivanCotter provides access to the research and market data leaders need to develop total compensation strategies that attract, engage, and retain talent—while remaining aligned with market best practices.
Drawing on decades of health care‑specific expertise, we help organizations design compensation and rewards strategies that align pay with performance, role expectations, and strategic priorities. Our approach balances market competitiveness with financial stewardship to support sustainable performance today and in the future.
Benefits are a core component of total rewards, influencing attraction, retention, and workforce engagement. SullivanCotter supports health care organizations in designing benefits programs that balance competitiveness, cost management, and workforce needs—while aligning with broader compensation and talent strategies.
Backed by robust data and deep regulatory expertise, SullivanCotter provides independent, defensible analyses that support confident, compliant compensation decisions—helping organizations align with strategic goals while standing up to regulatory and governance scrutiny.
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Through Co-Sourcing
SullivanCotter’s co-sourcing model provides embedded support within your HR and compensation function—delivering ongoing benchmarking, administration, and advisory expertise.
We work alongside your team to maintain operational continuity, strengthen governance, and ensure consistent, data-driven execution. Our approach helps organizations manage complexity while building long-term internal capability.
Learn MoreThe Surveys Behind the Insights
Tap into SullivanCotter’s industry‑leading workforce and compensation surveys to gain the intelligence needed to assess, benchmark, and enhance your total rewards programs.
Benefits Practices in Health Care Organizations Survey
Uniquely focused on health care organizations, this survey helps address challenges in executive, physician, and employee benefits programs, including optimizing offerings, implementing retirement plans for evolving roles, and keeping pace with trends in paid time off, severance, and disability programs.
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Our Full Capabilities
There’s Much More To SullivanCotter Than Just Compensation Data
Our Full Capabilities
There’s Much More To SullivanCotter Than Just Compensation Data
How does your health care workforce compare to its peers? At SullivanCotter, we deliver sophisticated analytics and actionable insights to help you evaluate your organization’s size, structure, cost, and performance — so you can make confident, data-driven decisions.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Workforce Metrics Benchmarking
Learn MoreYour system’s organizational design, operating models, and workforce structures are deeply interconnected. How can you ensure they’re all working in alignment to support strategy, performance, and care delivery? We partner with health care leaders to build dynamic and scalable solutions that adapt to evolving market demands.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Learn MoreYour people are your purpose. Design total compensation and rewards programs that attract, retain, and motivate the right talent. Using deep industry insight, proprietary benchmarking data, and tailored consulting, we partner with organizations to build competitive pay structures that balance workforce needs with overall financial imperatives.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Workforce Compensation Benchmarking
Compensation Design & Total Rewards
Fair Market Value & Commercial Reasonableness
Learn MoreSullivanCotter helps health care leaders improve workforce effectiveness and organizational performance by aligning strategy, structure, and talent. Through data-driven benchmarking and expert guidance, we enable organizations to optimize team effectiveness, support leadership development and succession planning, and accelerate change.
SullivanCotter Solutions:
Performance Analytics & Advisory Services
Leadership Succession & Development
Physician Affiliation & Optimization
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Ready to build a compensation, benefits, and total rewards strategy that meets today’s needs while remaining flexible for tomorrow? Contact SullivanCotter to get started.
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