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 provide 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 370 medical groups on more than 174,500 physicians
Report Delivery
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
2026 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey
2026 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 2025 survey report.
Reduced Pricing for Participants:
- 2026 Survey Participants: $1,350
- 2026 Early Submission Discount: $300 off participant price
- Health Care Nonparticipants (organizations directly involved in the delivery of care): $5,400
- Non-Health Care Organizations: Please call 888.739.7039 or email surveys@sullivancotter.com for pricing
Key Dates:
Participation opens: January 6, 2026
Deadline for early submission discount: February 24, 2026
Deadline for participation: March 13, 2026
Benchmarks publication: June 2026
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 2025 Medical Group Compensation and Productivity Survey
2025 Survey Costs:
- 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:
Survey data effective: January 1, 2025.
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.