Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey
Take advantage of actionable compensation and productivity data to support competitive pay practices for your advanced practice providers.
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Providing Unique Insight Into APPs
This survey provides invaluable insight into APP compensation levels, trends and pay practices and includes critical data on physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other certified providers across a number of emerging specialties – helping organizations to benchmark and assess their pay practices for this increasingly important provider group. The Advanced Practice Provider Compensation and Productivity Survey provides the tools to systematically track and benchmark market changes, which in turn helps organizations in managing strategic and financial planning for continued growth and success.
Survey Highlights
Benchmarks:
Base salary, base pay hourly rates, total cash compensation and total cost of benefits
Productivity data and ratios, including work RVUs, net collections and panel size
New hire and APP leader compensation data
Pay Practices:*
Organization initiatives, staffing changes, salary grades, experience credit, extra shifts, per diems, shift differentials, bonuses and incentives, on-call pay, education programs, recruitment and retention, benefits and work effort
Specific sections focused on leaders, CRNAs and CAAs
*Only available to participants
Key Details
Updated incumbent template with new instructions tab and hover text functionality for the incumbent fields.
Streamlined questionnaire to reflect market trends.
New section added to the questionnaire for certified anesthesiologist assistants (CAAs) as well as new questions added on leadership staffing changes, certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) turnover rates, CRNA compensation changes and more Specialty list expanded to include one new specialty: hospitalist – neurology.
Specialty list expanded to include one new specialty: hospitalist—neurology.
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Data collected through our secure, online data collection.
Submit data once and qualify for all applicable surveys.
Prepopulated prior-year data whenever possible.
Submit compensation data through an Excel file upload.
Delegate survey tasks across your organization to other colleagues.
Enhanced multiphase auditing process helps to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts on hand to assist with any questions.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts to assist with any questions.
Exclusive participant pricing and bundles as well as early submission discounts.
Early access to benchmarks and pay practices reports.
Input on preferred topics for future surveys.
Access to pulse survey results covering hot topics.
Complimentary access to pay practices reports when submitting to those survey sections.
The compensation and productivity benchmarks and pay practices report are delivered via SullivanCotter’s web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite – providing users with self-serve analytics dashboards for their unique reporting needs.
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Key Dates:
Opens: January 6, 2026
Early Submission: February 24, 2026
Closes: March 13, 2026
Publication: July 2026
Current Status: Closed
2026 Pricing:
Participants: $1,350
Health Care Nonparticipants (i.e., Direct Care Delivery): $5,400
Non-Health Care Organizations: Call 888.739.7039 for Pricing
Early Submission Discount: $300 Off Participant Price
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More details regarding submission and publication dates can be found here.
More details regarding pricing options can be found here. Non-health care nonparticipants will need to call 888.739.7039 for pricing information. Participants can receive $300 off the participant price by submitting their organization’s data by the early submission deadline
The survey report includes benchmarks, electronic data table results and a pay practices report.
Pay practices reports are complimentary to organizations who have answered all questions labeled as required in the corresponding survey sections.
Our benchmarks, electronic data table results and pay practices reports are delivered via our web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite.
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