Health Care Management and Executive Compensation Survey
Access comprehensive executive and management health care compensation data to inform competitive pay strategies and governance decisions.
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Benchmarking Data for Health Care Organizations
The role of the reform-era executive is more complex and demanding than ever within the constantly evolving health care market. Developing competitive compensation programs that attract, motivate and retain key executive talent is critical and remains a top priority for health care organizations nationwide. After nearly 35 years, this survey continues to provide critical benchmarking data on executive and management compensation trends and pay practices and is the largest of its kind for health care organizations nationwide.
Survey Highlights
Benchmarks:
Base salary, total cash compensation and total direct compensation
Annual and cash-based long-term incentive eligibility, award opportunities and payouts
National compensation data reported by organization type and size; reported by net revenue and region and subregion for subsidiary hospitals
Regression equations by organization type
Pay Practices:*
Salary increases and compensation strategies and annual and long-term incentive plan design, including performance measures
*Only available to participants
Key Details
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Data collected through our secure, online data collection tool.
Submit data once and qualify for all applicable surveys.
Prior-year data is pre-populated whenever possible.
Submit compensation data through an Excel file upload.
Delegate survey tasks to colleagues across your organization.
Enhanced multiphase auditing process helps to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
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 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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Frequently Asked Questions
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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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