Workforce Metrics Benchmarking
SullivanCotter delivers objective workforce benchmarks that bring clarity to structure, cost, and oversight—providing a credible, data-driven view of your workforce.
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Identifying Trustworthy Workforce Metrics Today is Challenging
Health care organizations face mounting pressure to deliver higher-quality care with constrained resources, yet many lack a clear, objective understanding of how their workforce compares to the market. Evolving care models, persistent labor shortages, and competition for talent have made informal comparisons and outdated benchmarks unreliable.
Without comprehensive, credible workforce metrics, leaders struggle to assess which variables are contributing to inefficiency, burnout, or unnecessary cost.
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Benchmarking That Brings Clarity to Workforce Complexity
Organizations partner with SullivanCotter to gain a holistic, data-informed view of how workforce structure actually operates across roles, levels, and care settings—comparing workforce size, structure, cost, demographics, and managerial oversight to peer organizations.
Powered by Workforce Insights360™, our benchmarks help identify opportunities to better align workforce structure with care delivery models and organizational goals. By combining robust workforce metrics with insights into organizational structure and operating realities, we help leaders identify where misalignment may be creating friction, inefficiency, or unnecessary cost. The result? More confident decision-making, stronger care delivery, and long-term workforce sustainability.
SullivanCotter Metrics Analyze:
Spans of Control
Reporting Layers
Role Definitions
Title Utilization
How We Help
With decades of workforce intelligence and the depth of Workforce Insights360™, SullivanCotter helps leaders translate workforce benchmarks into actionable strategy.
Compare full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount across functions and roles to peer organizations to identify differences in staffing levels, capacity, and workforce investment that inform planning and sustainability.
Assess workforce distribution by career level (executive, leader, manager, exempt, non-exempt) to evaluate organizational layering, leadership depth, and succession readiness.
Analyze annualized base payroll expense by role and function to understand cost drivers, evaluate investment levels, and align workforce spending with financial and operating objectives.
Evaluate gender, ethnicity, and generational representation to support informed workforce planning, inclusion, and leadership pipeline strategies.
Examine management spans of control and supervisory layers to identify opportunities to streamline oversight, improve decision-making, and increase organizational agility.
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Workforce Insights360™
Elevating Benchmarking Beyond Raw Data
Our Workforce Insights360™ platform brings together data on workforce size, distribution, career levels, demographics, and management span to help leaders understand how their workforce is structured relative to peers.
SullivanCotter leverages this workforce demographic and organizational structure data with the financial, performance, and quality data in our Performance Analytics and Advisory Services (PAAS) database to align workforce structure with performance outcomes.
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“Workforce Insights360™ helps organizations understand workforce size, shape, and cost—enabling more informed decisions about design, investment, and future workforce structure.”
— James Roth, Managing Principal, SullivanCotter
Explore SullivanCotter’s Comprehensive Survey Data
Access SullivanCotter’s Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey and related workforce and performance benchmarks to support operating model design and strategic decision-making.
Health Care Workforce Premium Bundle
Includes six survey reports: Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity, Health Care Management and Executive Compensation, Health Care Staff Compensation, Medical Group Executive Compensation, Physician Compensation and Productivity, and Physician Executive Compensation.
Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey
As health care organizations seek to optimize care delivery and improve performance, effectively managing workforce size, shape, and complexity remains key. This survey helps organizations understand how their workforce size, distribution, and cost compare to market practices.
Advanced Practice Provider Leadership and Organizational Survey
As health care organizations seek to transform care delivery by improving access, quality, services, and affordability, supporting the advanced practice provider (APP) workforce and optimizing leadership practices are essential. This survey highlights leadership roles, integration strategies, and workplace infrastructure for better APP workforce management.
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In addition to supporting health care organizations with benchmarking metrics, SullivanCotter can help put them to work. Discover a few of our related services.
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