Benchmarks360™
Powered by SullivanCotter’s proprietary survey data and research, Benchmarks360™ is a suite of intelligent, web-based products that enables health care organizations to analyze and visualize compensation, clinical productivity, and workforce perceptions and composition.
Designed to address enterprise-wide benchmarking needs for employees at all levels – including executives, physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs) and other clinical and non-clinical staff positions – Benchmarks360™ provides critical industry-leading data, analyses and reporting to support the compensation and workforce performance processes in an increasingly complex operating environment.
A Suite of Applications Designed to Address Your Unique Needs
The Benchmarks360 Workforce Compensation and Clinical Productivity Manager includes workforce specific applications for:
Physician Workforce
Advanced Practice Provider Workforce
Employee Workforce
Executive Workforce
In Spring 2025, SullivanCotter will be releasing a new vision for Benchmarks360 that will change the way users of the Physician and Advanced Practice Provider specific applications are able to identify opportunities and derive actionable insights using advanced applications to effectively manage a dynamic and evolving clinician provider workforce.
ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
Manage Data
Compile, blend, upload, and compare market data. Access SullivanCotter surveys and create custom modules for tailored insights. View your organization’s survey submissions or upload incumbent data.
Survey Report
Access and filter market data effortlessly. Choose between a comprehensive specialty-focused view or a detailed view, and filter by specific data variables.
At-A-Glance
Quickly gain visual insights into a single provider’s compensation and productivity. Input provider details, select market data sources, and generate PDF reports that plot percentiles for easy comparison and strategic planning.
Market Positioning
Compare organization data to market benchmarks. Calculate TCC (Total Cash Compensation), wRVU percentiles, and identify alignment. View detailed results at incumbent, specialty, and group levels with tables and graphs. Includes an opportunity assessment to pinpoint areas of success and opportunities for improvement.
Market Modeling: Coming Soon
Market Trends: Coming Soon
NEW PEER GROUP Data Modules
Academic Medical Centers
Includes incumbent data from nearly 90 affiliated Academic Medical Centers representing the physician and APP workforces.
Includes ability to filter organizations by level of Research Intensity to create more meaningful benchmarking.
Pediatrics
Includes incumbent data from nearly 70 Children’s or affiliated Children’s organizations representing the physician and APP workforces.
Includes ability to filter organizations by Free-Standing Children’s Hospital or affiliated Children’s Hosptital to create more meaningful benchmarking.
Spring 2025
New Version of Benchmarks360
(Physician and APP applications only)
Compare your organization’s compensation and clinical productivity benchmarks to the nation’s largest health systems and medical groups. Utilize SullivanCotter’s proprietary data, representing over one million incumbents, and other third-party sources.
- Scatterplots: Plot your individual incumbents against market benchmarks, visually identify where outliers exists, and view regression data
- Quantitative Reviews: Model compensation-levels against client-established and common industry standard quantitative reviews, visually assess incumbents that fall outside of review threshold, define custom regulatory parameters, and engage SullivanCotter consultants for detailed review
- Custom Analysis: Perform “what-if” analyses and evaluate against standard quantitative reviews, generate multiple pro-forma scenarios, and quickly assess compensation changes
Analyze and compare your organization’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding distribution against national physician and advanced practice provider clinical benchmarks at the specialty, work RVU and CPT level.
- Coding Distribution: Custom benchmarks for your organization, automation to remove data and reporting errors, multi-year coding profiles and trends, and filters to configure views of APP and physician coding details for clearer insights
- Annual CMS Changes: Annual updates to CPT codes and benchmarking data with the ability to analyze Evaluation and Management (E&M) CPT code changes
- Custom Analysis: Assess impact of volume and full-time equivalent (FTE) changes
Collect, benchmark and report on the thoughts and experiences of your APPs and physicians related to APP compensation, resources and job responsibilities to help ensure current pay programs and care models are competitive and effective.
This module includes two surveys designed to measure and compare individual organizations to national benchmarks.
- APP | Utilization and Perceptions Survey: Gain greater insight into the APP employment experience within your organization as it relates to scope of practice, clinical and non-clinical responsibilities, and perceptions on culture and compensation
- Physician | APP Utilization and Perceptions Survey: Learn more about your physician workforce and their experience working with APPs
Compare your organization’s specific pay practices and compensation design elements to many of the nation’s leading hospitals, health systems and medical groups. This module provides unique benchmarks that are often difficult to find and covers the entire health care workforce – including executives, physicians, advanced practice providers and other staff positions.
- Difficult to Find Benchmarks: Gain market insights into unique pay practices – such as on-call pay, shift differentials, paid time off, sign on and retention bonuses and more – to help inform the design of competitive compensation programs
- Custom Analysis: View and analyze relevant benchmarking data tailored to your organization's characteristics (e.g., academic, pediatric, geographic)
Workforce Metrics Manager
Analyze and benchmark job family and career level information to provide insight into the size, shape, cost and demographic representation of your workforce. Benchmarks are reported for support and clinical job families and career stages on:
- Size: Understand the number of full-time equivalent headcount
- Shape: Analyze career stage distribution of full-time equivalent headcount
- Cost: Annualize base payroll expense of full-time equivalent headcount
- Demographics: Evaluate gender, ethnicity and generational representation
- Oversight: Assess management direct span of control
Strengthening Workforce Analysis Through Data-Driven Insights
As one of the most comprehensive products of its kind, Benchmarks360™ currently comes with five distinct modules to help you understand pay, clinical productivity, and workforce perceptions and composition across your organization.
Licensing Information
Workforce Compensation and Clinical Productivity Manager comes in both a Standard (included with your survey purchase) and a Pro version (upgrade available for an additional licensing fee). Offered exclusively to health care organizations who purchase one or more SullivanCotter survey reports.
Clinical CPT Manager can be purchased as a separate module. Offered exclusively to health care organizations who purchase one or more SullivanCotter survey reports.
APP Utilization and Perceptions Manager is available in both a Standard and a Pro version and is currently only available to participating organizations.
Pay Practices Manager comes in both a Standard (included with survey participation or purchase*) and Pro version (upgrade available for additional licensing fee).
Workforce Metrics Manager comes in a Standard (included with SullivanCotter’s Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey participation or purchase*) version.
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Related Resources
INFOGRAPHIC | APP Unrestricted On-Call Pay
As organizations strive to meet patient demand, one premium pay practice that continues to receive attention is on-call pay. Establishing an effective call pay approach for advanced practice providers can help to support care coverage needs, improve patient access, and maintain effective throughput.
INFOGRAPHIC | 2024 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey
Equip your health care organization with the latest employee compensation insights! Download our infographic to preview the 2024 survey results – including annual compensation, salary increase budgets, and projections as we move forward into next year.
Press Release | Unprecedented competition for APPs driving increases in compensation
With the advanced practice provider (APP) workforce in high demand, median total cash compensation (TCC) continues to grow across all specialty categories. Learn more about annual increases in compensation from SullivanCotter's 2024 APP Compensation and Productivity Survey.
Workforce Compensation and Clinical Productivity Manager
Compare your organization’s compensation and clinical productivity benchmarks to the nation’s largest health systems and medical groups. Utilize SullivanCotter’s proprietary data, representing over one million incumbents, and other third-party sources.
Scatterplots
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- Plot your individual incumbents against market benchmarks
- Visually identify where outliers exist
- View regression data
Quantitative Reviews
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- Model your incumbent compensation levels against client-established and common industry standard quantitative reviews
- Visually assess incumbents that fall outside of review threshold
- Define custom regulatory parameters for your organization
- Engage SullivanCotter consultants for detailed review
Custom Analysis
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- Perform “what-if” analyses and evaluate against standard quantitative reviews and organization-specific parameters
- Generate multiple pro-forma scenarios
- Quickly assess compensation changes
Clinical CPT Manager
Analyze and compare your organization’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding distribution against national physician and advanced practice provider clinical benchmarks at the specialty, work RVU and CPT level.
Coding Distribution
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- Custom benchmarks for your organization
- Automation to remove data and reporting errors
- Multi-year coding profiles and trends
- Filter and configure views of advanced practice provider and physician coding details for clearer insights
Annual CMS Changes
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- Annual updates to codes and benchmarking data
- Analyze Evaluation and Management (E&M) code changes
Custom Analysis
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- Assess impact of volume and full-time equivalent (FTE) changes