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Press Release | SullivanCotter Releases Results for 2025 Health Care Compensation Surveys

With participation from more than 90% of the nation’s largest 200 health care organizations, these surveys represent one of the most comprehensive sources of health care compensation and workforce benchmarks available.


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FORBES | Aligning Clinical Contracts with Value-Based Care

Your clinical workforce is critical to achieving the goals of value-based care. For many health systems, however, this strategy falls apart at the contract, compensation, and incentive level. Learn more from SullivanCotter's Ted Chien on how to adapt!


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Physician Compensation Governance: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls

Robust physician compensation governance structures are fundamental to maintaining compliance. Dive deeper into best practices and common pitfalls from our experts!


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INFOGRAPHIC | Registered Nursing Compensation Insights

Shape your RN workforce structures with the latest data and benchmarks from our new Registered Nursing Compensation Survey!


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Press Release | SullivanCotter Opens Participation for 2025 Health Care Compensation Surveys

For more than 30 years, SullivanCotter has provided critical benchmarks and comprehensive total compensation information, analyses, and research to the nation’s top hospitals and health systems.


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Press Release | Median Base Pay for Registered Nurses on Track for 3%-4% Annual Increase to Close Out 2024

Struggling to recruit and retain registered nurses? Dive deeper in to the latest compensation and pay practices benchmarks from SullivanCotter to learn more about annual increases, base pay by region, pay structures and more.


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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.


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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR | Struggling to recruit and retain your nursing workforce?

How is your organization addressing ongoing nursing shortages? Join our recent webinar hosted by the American Hospital Association to learn about developing a more holistic approach to recruitment and retention.


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The FTC’s Ban on Noncompete Clauses

In this article, SullivanCotter provides initial guidance for health care organizations to consider – including an overview of the Final Rule, potential implications on employment arrangements, and steps to take as they develop action plans to move forward.


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Forbes | The Labor Crisis is Derailing Health Care Transformation

Without a stable and engaged workforce, health care organizations are limited in their ability to truly transform. Learn more from SullivanCotter's President and CEO, Ted Chien, on how organizations can address the ongoing labor crisis.


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Mergers and Acquisitions: Integrating Total Rewards Strategies to Drive Value

This article focuses on common total rewards challenges that many health care organizations encounter during an M&A transaction. Recognizing and addressing these opportunities will help minimize potential risks and deal-breakers, prioritize pre- and post-merger activities, and support a successful implementation process.


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PRESS RELEASE | Health Care Organizations Deploy Cost-Cutting Initiatives as Labor Costs Grow

As labor expenditure remains high due to ongoing health care workforce challenges, many hospitals and health systems are reevaluating the size and shape of their employee populations to offset rising costs and create a more affordable and sustainable workforce architecture. Learn about key findings from SullivanCotter’s 2023 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2023 Total Rewards Pulse Survey

SullivanCotter recently surveyed 82 health care organizations to see how total rewards strategies are evolving in response to an increasingly competitive marketplace for talent.


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ARTICLE | Co-sourcing Strategic Compensation Management Initiatives

As health care organizations continue to struggle with ongoing clinical workforce shortages, it’s important to note that other non-clinical roles and shared services departments are facing similar staffing challenges. If in-house compensation and human resources teams are finding themselves overburdened or understaffed during such an unprecedented time, co-sourcing can provide interim support to help alleviate any constraints in timing, resources, recruitment or experience.


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PRESS RELEASE | Median Hourly Rates Up by Over 5% for Health Care Employees

Learn about emerging trends in employee compensation - including base hourly pay increases, internal minimums, premium pay and more - from SullivanCotter's 2023 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey Report.


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ARTICLE | Assessing Pay Equity

In an article published by the American Association of Provider Compensation Professionals, SullivanCotter outlines how health care organizations can effectively monitor, measure and achieve pay equity.


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Proactive Workforce Planning: Grounded in Data

Featured in Fierce Healthcare, SullivanCotter’s President and CEO, Ted Chien, outlines the importance of utilizing robust data and benchmarks to build a more resilient workforce model that helps support the delivery of high-quality care and enhance financial sustainability.


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Hiring Gains Alone Won’t Solve the Health Care Workforce Crisis

Health care is in the midst of an ongoing workforce crisis as the demand for care is outpacing the supply of labor. To help fortify the nation's health care system by building a sustainable pipeline of future talent, Ted Chien, SullivanCotter's President and CEO, discusses how hospitals and health systems can meet this challenge through smarter technology, resilient teams, and excellence in leadership.


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INFOGRAPHIC | 2022 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey

SullivanCotter’s 2022 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey includes data from nearly 1,300 organizations on more than 1.2M individual employees- providing organizations with critical compensation market data, information on key employee workforce practices, and insight into emerging industry trends.


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Pay Equity and Living Wage

Establishing a living wage is an essential component of supporting employee wellbeing, enhancing internal equity, and elevating the operational efficiencies of organizations.


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