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More than three decades of data-driven insight helping organizations design executive structures, rewards, and governance that support leadership effectiveness and long-term performance.

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Competing for Executive Talent Requires More Than Competitive Pay

Health care organizations are competing for executive talent in an environment defined by complexity, heightened scrutiny, and constant change. As expectations on senior leaders continue to rise, there is an imperative to not only provide competitive pay, but also ensure that talent strategies, leadership development, performance objectives, and operating models are aligned with the organization’s goals and mission.

Misalignment can undercut leadership’s effectiveness, compromise performance, create recruitment and retention challenges, and impair the organization’s ability to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care. Organizations must offer a leadership framework that aligns pay, performance, and talent strategies with strategic goals.

Partnering with SullivanCotter

Architect Leadership Excellence

Organizations partner with SullivanCotter to bring structure, insight, and alignment to executive leadership strategy. We combine workforce analytics, executive compensation insight, governance expertise, and strategic advisory services to address the complex challenges facing today’s leadership teams.

Working with our teams, leaders, and boards assess how executive roles, spans of control, governance structures, and reward programs support—or hinder—effective leadership and strategic execution.

Through integrated workforce advisory solutions spanning executives, physicians, advanced practice providers, and employees, we help organizations design leadership models that reinforce accountability, improve decision-making, and support sustained performance as care delivery and operating models continue to evolve.

Essential Survey

Health Care Management 
and Executive Compensation

The most relevant leadership compensation survey in the market, collecting data from nearly 50,000 executives from over 3,000 organizations—and covering base salary to total compensation.

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How We Help

Workforce Metrics Benchmarking

Benchmark your workforce against peers across structure, size, cost, and managerial oversight.

Operating Model & Strategy Alignment

Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.

Organizational Design & Workforce Structure

Align roles, responsibilities, and skills with enterprise priorities.

Job Architecture

Objectively define leadership roles, levels, and expectations to support clarity and consistency across the organization, aligned with each function’s unique operating model.

Workforce Planning

Plan for future leadership capacity and capabilities aligned with organizational needs.

Corporate Governance

Strengthen board structure, roles, and practices to enhance oversight, decision-making, and overall effectiveness.

Workforce Compensation Benchmarking

Benchmark executive total compensation against relevant peers.

Compensation Design & Total Rewards

Design executive rewards that attract and retain executives, support performance objectives, align with talent strategies, and are beyond reproach if scrutinized.         

Benefits

Design executive benefits that support workforce well-being and retention.

Performance Analytics & Advisory Services

Develop executive incentives and goals that reinforce operating and strategic priorities.

Optimize Team Effectiveness

Improve leadership team effectiveness and collaboration.

Leadership Succession & Development

Strengthen leadership pipelines and succession readiness.

Change Management

Support leaders and organizations through complex change.

How We Help

Assess Your Workforce

Workforce Metrics Benchmarking

Benchmark your workforce against peers across structure, size, cost, and managerial oversight.

Build the Right Organizational & Workforce Structure

Operating Model & Strategy Alignment

Design organizations that support leadership effectiveness and strategy execution.

Organizational Design & Workforce Structure

Align roles, responsibilities, and skills with enterprise priorities.

Job Architecture

Objectively define leadership roles, levels, and expectations to support clarity and consistency across the organization, aligned with each function’s unique operating model.

Workforce Planning

Plan for future leadership capacity and capabilities aligned with organizational needs.

Corporate Governance

Strengthen board structure, roles, and practices to enhance oversight, decision-making, and overall effectiveness.

Align Compensation & Rewards

Workforce Compensation Benchmarking

Benchmark executive total compensation against relevant peers.

Compensation Design & Total Rewards

Design executive rewards that attract and retain executives, support performance objectives, align with talent strategies, and are beyond reproach if scrutinized.         

Benefits

Design executive benefits that support workforce well-being and retention.

Accelerate Workforce & Organizational Performance

Performance Analytics & Advisory Services

Develop executive incentives and goals that reinforce operating and strategic priorities.

Optimize Team Effectiveness

Improve leadership team effectiveness and collaboration.

Leadership Succession & Development

Strengthen leadership pipelines and succession readiness.

Change Management

Support leaders and organizations through complex change.

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.

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“Organizations are balancing what is a complex, challenging operating and financial environment with what is still a highly competitive executive talent market.”

Bruce Greenblatt, Executive Workforce Services Practice Leader, SullivanCotter

Executive Compensation & Leadership Benchmarks

SullivanCotter’s survey insights cover base pay, total cash compensation, incentive design, governance practices, and leadership trends—helping boards and organizations make informed, defensible decisions around executive rewards and performance alignment.

Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey

Provides critical benchmarking data on executive and management compensation trends and pay practices. For nearly 35 years, this survey has been and continues to be the largest of its kind for health care organizations nationwide.

Medical Group Executive
Compensation Survey

Provides a vital source of benchmarking data on key executive positions in both independent medical groups and those owned by health systems.

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.

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

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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.

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Your 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.

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Your 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.

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SullivanCotter 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.

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Let’s Architect Your Solution

Ready to strengthen your executive leadership strategy and support sustained organizational performance? Contact SullivanCotter to get started.

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