Physician Compensation and Productivity Survey
Inform your physician compensation strategy with this survey’s unparalleled look at physician pay and performance.
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The Largest and Most Comprehensive Physician Compensation Dataset
This survey leads the market in all areas – sample sizes, contemporary and emerging pay practices and the number of specialties and position levels surveyed – and it continues to bring new value to physician workforce leaders seeking deeper insights to attract, reward and retain a high-performing care team.
Survey Highlights
Benchmarks:
Base salary, total cash compensation and total cost of benefits
Productivity data and ratios, including work RVUs, net collections, total encounters, patient visits and panel size
Compensation trends, quality incentives and data for new hires
Reported nationally and by region, position level and specialty
Pay Practices:*
Demographics, staffing changes, hospital-based work effort, compensation approaches, recruitment and retention, APP supervision, committee compensation, virtual care and telemedicine and travel reimbursements
*Only available to participants
Key Details
Updated incumbent template with new instructions tab and hover text functionality for the incumbent fields.
Streamlined questionnaire order for participant clarity and readability.
New sections added to the questionnaire for per diems and travel reimbursements as well as new questions added on locum tenens, governance process and regulations and more.
Specialty list expanded to include three new specialties: cardiac surgery, neuroendovascular surgery and primary care – rural medicine.
Download a sample of the 2026 survey report.
Your time is valuable, which is why we’ve designed our survey systems to minimize your effort and provide an easy and flexible experience.
Data collected through our secure, online data collection.
Submit data once and qualify for all applicable surveys.
Prepopulated prior-year data whenever possible.
Submit compensation data through an Excel file upload.
Delegate survey tasks across your organization to other colleagues.
Enhanced multiphase auditing process helps to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts on hand to assist with any questions.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts to assist with any questions.
Exclusive participant pricing and bundles as well as early submission discounts.
Early access to benchmarks and pay practices reports.
Input on preferred topics for future surveys.
Access to pulse survey results covering hot topics.
Complimentary access to pay practices reports when submitting to those survey sections.
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.
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Key Dates:
Opens: January 6, 2026
Early Submission: February 24, 2026
Closes: March 13, 2026
Publication: June 2026
Current Status: Closed
2026 Pricing:
Participants: $1,350
Health Care Nonparticipants (i.e., Direct Care Delivery): $5,400
Non-Health Care Organizations: Call 888.739.7039 for Pricing
Early Submission Discount: $300 Off Participant Price
Technology & Data Spotlight
Benchmarks360™
Workforce Compensation & Clinical Productivity Manager
By combining our trusted physician and APP compensation data with proven consulting insights, Benchmarks360™ delivers a smarter approach to workforce decision-making.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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More details regarding submission and publication dates can be found here.
More details regarding pricing options can be found here. Non-health care nonparticipants will need to call 888.739.7039 for pricing information. Participants can receive $300 off the participant price by submitting their organization’s data by the early submission deadline
The survey report includes benchmarks, electronic data table results and a pay practices report.
Pay practices reports are complimentary to organizations who have answered all questions labeled as required in the corresponding survey sections.
Our benchmarks, electronic data table results and pay practices reports are delivered via our web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite.
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