Hospitals and health systems are rethinking compensation and staffing as they navigate financial challenges.
Here’s what you need to know…
Health care organizations are adopting new strategies to compensate employees and save on costs as they look to balance the growing competition for talent with ongoing financial pressures.
Featuring data from SullivanCotter’s 2025 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey, Modern Healthcare highlights how:
- Bonuses are being dialed back – especially for nurses
- Wages are increasing for critical support staff
- Competition for clinical technicians is high, causing pay to rise
- More employers are upping pay scales for select roles
See what our experts have to say!
“This year we’re seeing organizations identify new funding sources to support broader market adjustments. In other words, despite financial pressures, employers are finding ways to justify increases across a wider range of roles to remain competitive in today’s labor market.” – Steve Meyers, Consulting Principal, SullivanCotter
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We know your organization is navigating a tight talent market and complex economic landscape. You need the right data to recruit and retain clinical technicians, support staff, and others through such challenging times.
Our longstanding Health Care Staff Compensation Survey provides data-driven benchmarks on compensation and pay practices to help organizations make informed recruitment, retention, and staffing decisions.
Report Highlights
- Data from more than 3,660 organizations on nearly 2.5 million employees
- Inclusion of approximately 800 reported jobs
- Market data by region, state and organization size, including hourly base rate and total cash compensation for individual contributors, supervisors and managers in clinical and nonclinical functions
- Detailed on-call pay and shift differential data, including evening, night and weekend coverage
- Compensation practices data on salary increases, new hire strategies, holiday premiums, weekend staffing programs, professional and clinical ladder programs, incentive programs and much more
- Information on certification, charge, extra-shift, float pool and preceptor pay
