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


What's New in 2025?

  • Job list expanded to include 17 new jobs to reflect market trends
  • New highlighted blue text for job summary updates to better assist participants with understanding summary
    changes year over year

Benchmarking Data for Health Care Organzations

As the health care industry continues to constantly adapt and transform in response to short- and long-term impacts, the role of the reform-era executive is now more complex and demanding than ever. 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 more than 30 years, this survey continues to provide critical benchmarking data on executive compensation trends and pay practices and is the largest of its kind for health care organizations nationwide.


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.

Survey Highlights

  • Data from over 3,265 organizations representing more than 45,110 executives and managers
  • Base salary, total cash compensation and total direct compensation
  • Annual and long-term incentive plan design, including performance measures, eligibility and target and maximum opportunity awards paid
  • National compensation data reported by organization type and size
  • Compensation data reported by region and subregion for hospitals
  • Featured in Modern Healthcare’s annual executive compensation issue

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 Management and Executive 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 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


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: July 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 Management and Executive 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
  • For more information or to request a custom report, please contact us for details. Note: Custom reports are only available to participants who purchased and paid for the national survey report.

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.

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