Compensation & Total Rewards Built for Performance
Design competitive compensation and rewards programs that attract, engage, and retain top talent while driving individual performance and aligning with organizational objectives.
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Aligning Rewards With Performance, Retention, and Strategy
Health care organizations operate in a highly competitive labor market, with shifting workforce expectations, unprecedented demand for clinical and administrative talent, and growing pressure to link rewards to measurable outcomes. Legacy compensation structures may not reflect modern care delivery, value-based priorities, or intergenerational workforce expectations, resulting in retention challenges, unclear performance incentives, and misaligned pay practices.
Without a clear total rewards strategy that integrates compensation, incentives, benefits valuation, and policy design, organizations risk falling behind in attracting and retaining the workforce they need to deliver high-quality care—now and into the future.
Communication & Transparency
Develop Total Rewards Strategy
- Align with business strategy
- Fulfill values and mission
- Meet financial objectives
Design & Execute Total Rewards
Design and implement programs that align with the strategy
Measure Total Rewards
Measure and assess program effectiveness
Achieve Goals
Meet organizational objectives and financial goals
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Drive Performance, Retain Talent, & Reward What Matters
SullivanCotter helps health care leaders develop compensation and total rewards programs that support strategic goals, reinforce performance expectations, and enhance talent competitiveness across the enterprise. We combine deep industry insight, rigorous market benchmarking, and a disciplined design process to ensure compensation frameworks are defensible, equitable, and tailored to health care’s unique roles and performance drivers.
Our approach includes incentive plan design, goal calibration, salary structure planning, merit budgeting, benefits valuation, and reasonableness assessments—ensuring your total rewards strategy not only attracts top talent but motivates performance and reinforces organizational priorities.
Compensation & Rewards Expertise
Across the Health Care Workforce
Unlike firms that approach compensation through a single lens, we understand the distinct market dynamics, regulatory considerations, performance expectations, and workforce challenges that shape rewards programs across each segment of the organization—executives, physicians, advanced practice providers, and employees.
By combining deep workforce intelligence, proprietary market data, and specialized health care expertise, we help organizations design compensation and rewards strategies that support performance, strengthen talent competitiveness, and align with organizational priorities.
Executives
Design executive compensation and incentive programs that align leadership rewards with organizational performance, governance expectations, and long-term strategic priorities.
Physicians
Develop physician compensation models that balance market competitiveness, productivity, quality, compliance, and alignment with care delivery and organizational goals.
Advanced Practice Providers
Create APP compensation and rewards strategies that reflect evolving care models, support role optimization, and align incentives across integrated clinical teams.
Employees
Build employee compensation and total rewards programs that strengthen workforce competitiveness, support career growth, and align pay structures with organizational needs and workforce strategy.
How We Help
SullivanCotter delivers a comprehensive approach to compensation and total rewards—grounded in health care–specific market intelligence and practical advisory expertise—to help organizations design programs that are competitive, aligned, and defensible.
Access trusted market data and peer comparisons to evaluate compensation levels, pay practices, and workforce competitiveness across roles and care settings.
Design compensation models that align physician work effort and performance expectations with organizational priorities, evolving care delivery models, and retention needs.
Evaluate and modernize benefits programs to support talent attraction and retention while balancing financial sustainability, governance expectations, and evolving workforce demographics.
Strengthen compliance and governance through objective assessments and defensible documentation that support fair market value alignment and regulatory readiness.
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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.
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Realignment for Performance & Pay Transparency
As health systems transform care models to meet shifting patient needs, compensation design must evolve in lockstep.
SullivanCotter’s case study on academic medical center care model redesign demonstrates how aligning roles, performance expectations, and rewards can support strategic transformation and strengthen clinician engagement.
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Benchmark With Confidence
Explore SullivanCotter’s comprehensive survey data—including credible market intelligence on compensation levels, pay practices and productivity norms—helping organizations make informed, defensible compensation and incentive decisions.
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 current with SullivanCotter’s latest insights on compensation strategy, incentive design, workforce expectations, pay-for-performance trends, and evolving total rewards models in health care.
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Partner with SullivanCotter to develop a more integrated approach to total rewards across your entire workforce to align compensation, compliance, benefits and more.
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Ready to deliver innovative total rewards programs that support workforce engagement, retention, and organizational performance? Contact SullivanCotter to put objective insight behind your most critical compensation decisions.
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