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 of Its Kind
For more than 30 years, this survey has been and continues to be the largest and most comprehensive physician compensation survey published. With data reported on over 215,400 physicians and PhDs, this survey continues to lead the market in all areas – sample sizes, contemporary and emerging pay practices and the number of specialties and position levels surveyed.
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 as well as cost of benefits
- Productivity data and ratios, including work RVUs, collections, patient visits and panel sizes
- Value-based compensation approaches and amounts paid
- Data for multiple position levels from staff physicians to chairs
- National data reported by region, organization type, position level and specialty group
- Other data, including sign-on bonuses, retention bonuses, relocation assistance and other perquisites
- Data on over 215,400 individual physicians
- 541 participating hospitals, health systems and medical groups
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 Physician 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
- 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 Physician 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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