Registered Nursing Compensation Survey

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.

• New incumbent fields collecting data for certification level and degree
• New section added on alternative work programs as well as reorganized and refined pay practices questionnaire for ease of participation
• Streamlined job list and summaries tab, including updated job family categories to better help participants best match to their organization’s roles, expanded job list to include 49 new jobs such as head nursing and nurse practitioner roles and added new highlighted blue text for summary updates to better assist participants with understanding summary changes year over year

• Six months of base pay data trends
• Information on premium pay practices unique to the RN population:
  • Per diem
  • Float
  • Weekender
  • Travelers
  • Clinical ladders
  • Specialty on call
  • And more
• Insight into staffing ratios and turnover
• Operational measures for RN leaders
• Data reported by setting, specialty, experience and level
• Over 1,100 participating organizations
• Data on over 509,400 incumbents reported for more than 150 key nursing jobs, including RNs, nursing managers and licensed practical nurses

Report Delivery

• 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

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.

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