There are several statistical methods used to examine pay equity between select groups. However, all attempt to achieve the same ends of controlling for differences between groups when analyzing the compensation between those groups. Thus, if the groups are equivalent in all relevant respects, would they (e.g., men and women) be paid the same?

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.

Utilizing data from SullivanCotter’s 2022 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey – which includes information on 10 job families, 6 career level stages, and 3 demographic groupings – organizations can reevaluate their employee workforce planning and distribution efforts to help offset rising costs and create a more sustainable workforce architecture.

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.

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.

SullivanCotter Holdings, Inc., the nation’s leading human capital information management holding company for health care and not-for-profits/tax-exempt organizations, announces several important new hires within its Shared Services leadership team.   

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

Pay equity analysis offers a rare, in-depth look at the inner workings of organizational pay practices and how a host of tiny decisions may evolve into larger issues if they remain unrecognized and unmanaged.

Most people responsible for pay equity studies within their organizations have only a superficial knowledge of statistics. Yet, as the primary underwriters and overseers of the workers who are ultimately accountable for the overall quality, how can they ensure the analysis is reliable?

Maintaining employee engagement is critical and pay equity matters because it is a key component of the total impression employees form of their workplace based on their lived experiences.

Learn more from SullivanCotter’s recent Remote Work and Geographic Pay Pulse Survey, which examines how health care organizations are responding to what has changed with respect to remote work policies, geographic pay differentials, and staffing models.

As some organizations are transitioning back into the office, hospitals and health systems need to rethink which employees can and should work remotely, what these arrangements should look like, and how they should be paid.

The acquisition of Clinician Nexus deepens the firm’s technology talent and enables the creation of two separate entities focused on serving different needs within the health care industry and not-for-profit sector. SullivanCotter will continue to offer market-leading consulting and advisory services while Clinician Nexus will provide workforce and compensation management technology as well as automated workflow solutions designed to support each stage of the clinical workforce lifecycle ꟷ from planning and training to measuring, rewarding, and driving performance.

Statistical outcomes do not always tell the whole story, and this is particularly true for studies on pay equity. SullivanCotter describes three areas where differences may exist, how they avoid detection in standard pay equity assessments, and what further analyses are required to help complete a story only partially told.

As a leader in his field, Mike has spent more than 30 years consulting and educating boards and senior executives on a myriad of human capital matters such as leadership development, compensation, succession planning, change management and more. He is also a widely published author specializing in leadership excellence and organizational design and leverages years of experience in his research-based approach with clients.

Looking for better ways to recruit and retain registered nurses in an increasingly competitive marketplace? SullivanCotter presents a number of strategies based on recent workforce trends.

View highlights from SullivanCotter's 2021 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey, featuring vital base salary and total cash compensation data for more than 1.2 million individuals nationwide.

Featured in McDermott Will & Emery's popular e-book series, SullivanCotter highlights important items for both the Human Capital and Compensation Committees to consider as health care organizations move forward with planning in 2022 and beyond.

Nursing skill mix is an important consideration in the design of nursing department staffing as hospitals and health systems continue to face critical staffing shortages.

SullivanCotter, the nation’s leading independent consulting firm in the assessment and development of total rewards programs, workforce solutions, and technology and data products for the health care industry and not-for-profit sector, recently released results from its 2021 Workforce Metrics Benchmark Survey.