Creating a Workforce Built for Performance
Helping organizations align workforce design, compensation, and career structures with evolving operational needs.
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As health care organizations face limited availability of qualified talent, understanding all the elements of your talent ecosystem is key to attracting and retaining a high-performing workforce.
Employee Workforce Strategy Designed for Health Care
Health care workforce costs continue to rise, yet many organizations lack the structure, role clarity, and total rewards frameworks needed to deploy their workforce effectively. Unclear job hierarchies, inconsistent titling, undefined competencies, and limited career pathways create operational drag—making it harder to recruit, retain, and hold leaders accountable for workforce performance.
SullivanCotter works with hospitals and health systems to align employee roles, compensation structures, career pathways, and workforce architecture with how care is delivered across clinical, operational, and support functions. We help organizations move beyond base pay to design total rewards strategies that reflect the full employee value proposition, including compensation, benefits, professional development, and career mobility.
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Integrated Employee Workforce Solutions
SullivanCotter brings together total rewards strategy, workforce structure, skills and competency development, and career architecture into a single advisory framework. We help organizations define the right roles at the right levels, build career pathways for all employees that support professional growth, establish market-competitive total rewards, and create governance structures that sustain alignment over time.
Because compensation is only one part of the equation — employees need to see a clear path forward, understand what skills are valued, and feel that their full contribution is recognized.
Essential Survey
Health Care Staff Compensation Survey
The most relevant staff compensation survey in the market. Published regionally for over 30 years, this new national survey provides cash compensation market data on over 800 jobs.
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Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Align roles, responsibilities, and capabilities to support organizational priorities and performance.
How We Help
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Align roles, responsibilities, and capabilities to support organizational priorities and performance.
Operating Model & Strategy Alignment
Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.
Organizational Design & Workforce Structure
Align roles, responsibilities, and capabilities to support organizational priorities and performance.
Partner with SullivanCotter
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 MoreInsight Spotlight
Navigating a More Competitive Market for Registered Nurse Talent
Registered nurses are central to care delivery, yet many health systems continue to face persistent shortages, rising burnout, and increasing competition for experienced clinical talent. Shifts in workforce expectations, challenging working conditions, and ongoing pipeline constraints have made RN recruitment and retention more complex.
SullivanCotter has created an article outlining how it supports organizations in reexamining role design, career pathways, staffing models and total rewards to remain competitive in an evolving market for clinical talent.
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Technology & Data Spotlight
Workforce Insights360™
Workforce Structure Insights
How your workforce is structured has never been more consequential. SullivanCotter is your dedicated resource for analyzing, benchmarking, and optimizing workforce structure across every level of your organization.
Workforce Insights360™ delivers peer-benchmarked insights into spans of control, role distribution, workforce composition, and labor costs to support more informed, data-driven workforce planning decisions.
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Pulse on the Industry
Stay up to date with the latest research, insights, and thought leadership from SullivanCotter on workforce analytics, organizational performance, provider supply and demand, and evolving care delivery models.
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 strengthen your employee workforce strategy and support long-term organizational performance? Contact SullivanCotter to get started.
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