Sullivan Cotter’s 2023 Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey Report highlights proprietary market findings from our latest survey, including changes in salaries and incentives, emerging executive roles, trends in executive compensation design, and strategies that organizations are considering to address executive recruitment, retention and performance. Learn more from the results, which include critical benchmarking data on compensation levels and pay practices from nearly 3,100 organizations representing nearly 42,200 individual incumbents.
The 2023 survey report is now available for purchase.
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What's New 2026
Updated incumbent template with new instructions tab and hover text functionality for the incumbent fields
Streamlined questionnaire order for participant clarity and readability
New sections added to the questionnaire for per diems and travel reimbursements as well as new questions added on locum tenens, governance process and regulations and more
Specialty list expanded to include three new specialties: cardiac surgery, neuroendovascular surgery and primary care – rural medicine
What's New 2026
Updated incumbent template with two new incumbent fields collecting data on non receiver status
Job list expanded to include three new jobs: top facilities management execute, second-level compliance executive and second-level pharmacy executive
Updated incumbent template with new instructions tab and hover text functionality for the incumbent fields
