National Benchmarks
The most relevant staff compensation survey in the market, collecting compensation data on over 645 jobs. Published regionally for over 20 years, this now national survey provides cash compensation market data for health care staff.
What's New in 2025?
- New questions added to the pay increase practices and premium pay practices sections of the questionnaire
- Streamlined job list and summaries tab, including updated job family categories to better help participants best match to their organization’s roles, expanded job list to include 120 new jobs reflecting market trends and new highlighted blue text for summary updates to better assist participants with understanding summary changes year over year
Survey Highlights
- Over 2,090 participating organizations
- Data on over 2,061,535 health care employees
- Market data by region, state and organization size, including hourly base rate and total cash compensation for individual contributors, supervisors and managers in clinical and nonclinical functions
- Detailed on-call pay and shift differential data, including evening, night and weekend coverage
- Compensation practices data on salary increases, new hire strategies, holiday premiums, weekend staffing programs, professional and clinical ladder programs, incentive programs and much more
- Information on certification, charge, extra-shift, float pool and preceptor pay
Enhanced Multiphase Auditing Process
Our participant experience includes an audit process that allows organizations to identify year-over-year discrepancies and areas of concern, contributes to the robustness and integrity of our data and provides greater confidence in report accuracy. If audits are needed, SullivanCotter emails participants when their audits are ready. After which, they may log in to their accounts to clarify and submit feedback via secure communication.
Learn About Our Full Survey Suite
Gaining access to the right data is paramount. SullivanCotter’s proprietary survey data provides the intelligence and insights you’ll need to confidently navigate the compensation journey and make highly-informed decisions.
Flexible Participant Experience
Log in to the Client Portal to submit data (i.e., APP, benefits, employee, executive, investment and physician) once and qualify for all applicable surveys or delegate survey tasks across your organization to other colleagues
Enhanced Report Delivery
The compensation and pay practices benchmarks are delivered via SullivanCotter’s web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite — providing users with self-serve analytics dashboards for their unique reporting needs
2025 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey
2025 Survey Participation Is Open
Contribute to Gain Participation Privileges
Your participation ensures that your data are part of this valuable resource, providing you with robust, comprehensive information used by not-for-profit organizations across all market segments. In addition, participants receive exclusive, discounted pricing on valuable data and reports and early access to survey results.
Participation in our surveys is made easy through our online data collection tool
Non-health care organizations are welcome to participate in the survey on their client’s behalf; however, they are not eligible to purchase the report at the participant rate. Please call 888.739.7039 or email surveys@sullivancotter.com for pricing.
Survey Samples
- Download a sample of the 2024 survey report.
Reduced Pricing for Participants:
- 2025 Survey Participants: $1,250
- 2025 Early Submission Discount: $200 off participant price
- Health Care Nonparticipants (organizations directly involved in the delivery of care): $5,000
- Non-Health Care Organizations: Please call 888.739.7039 or email surveys@sullivancotter.com for pricing
Key Dates:
Participation opens: January 7, 2025
Deadline for early submission discount: February 25, 2025
Deadline for participation: March 14, 2025
Benchmarks publication: June 2025
Current status: Open for participation
Questions?
If you have any questions about the survey, please contact our Survey Team by phone at 888.739.7039 or by email at surveys@sullivancotter.com.
Order the 2024 Health Care Staff Compensation Survey
2024 Survey Costs:
- 2024 Survey Participants: $1,150
- 2024 Early Submission Discount: $200 off participant price
- Health Care Nonparticipants (organizations directly involved in the delivery of care): $4,600
- Non-Health Care Organizations: Please call 888.739.7039 or email surveys@sullivancotter.com for pricing
Key Dates:
Survey data effective: January 1, 2024.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the survey, please contact our Survey Team by phone at 888.739.7039 or by email at surveys@sullivancotter.com.