Registered Nursing Compensation Survey
Access market-driven compensation insights to attract and retain registered nursing talent in a competitive environment.
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Addressing Emerging Compensation Trends and Pay Practices
As ongoing workforce shortages persist due to burnout, unfavorable working conditions and an insufficient pipeline of future clinicians, many health care organizations are looking for better ways to recruit and retain registered nurses (RNs) in an unprecedented market for talent. By collecting data midyear, this survey provides the most up-to-date information on nursing salary trends, pay practices and important operational measures for end-of-year budgeting and market analysis—empowering your organization to remain competitive and effectively shape your RN workforce structure moving forward.
Survey Highlights
Benchmarks:
Cohort six-month base pay data trends
Market payroll data by region, state, organization size, job level, work status, degree and experience, including hourly base rate and total cash compensation for registered nursing roles
Additional data on FLSA status, union status, pay range type, step structure and incentives, including payouts
Pay and Leadership Practices:*
Compensation strategy, pay administration, base pay, alternative work programs, bonus programs and shift, call, charge and preceptor, specialty department and unit, degree and certification and hazard and crisis premium pay practices
Demographics, staffing and workforce management, financial sustainability and resource management, quality, safety and performance improvement, education and career development and care models
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Key Details
Details to come.
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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 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: July 7, 2026
Early Submission: July 24, 2026
Closes: August 14, 2026
Publication: October 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
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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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