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?

  • Updated incumbent template with new incumbent fields collecting data for chairs and chiefs
  • New section for clinical leaders and new questions added to the virtual care and telemedicine section of the questionnaire
  • Specialty list expanded to include 18 new specialties focused on fellowship-trained physicians, forensics,
    hospitalists, minimally invasive surgery and robotics, neurological surgery, nocturnists and pediatrics
  • New highlighted blue text for specialty summary updates to better assist participants with understanding summary changes year over year

Largest Dataset in the Market

As the largest medical group compensation dataset in the market, this survey offers a comprehensive look into pay practices and productivity across a wide spectrum of physician specialties.


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

  • Base salary and total cash compensation data for physicians as well as compensation and productivity data on academic and faculty practices
  • Productivity data and ratios, including work RVUs, collections, patient visits and panel sizes
  • Insights into performance and annual incentive payments
  • Total cost of benefits, including benefits as a percentage of total cash compensation
  • Starting salary and bonus data for both new and experienced physicians
  • Data reported across a number of specialty groups for multiple position levels from staff physicians to chairs
  • National medical group data by revenue, size, region and academic affiliation
  • Data from over 330 medical groups on more than 161,425 physicians

Enhanced Report Delivery

  • The compensation, productivity 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 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity 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


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 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity 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.

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