Comparison

ClinicalRate vs SullivanCotter.

SullivanCotter publishes the definitive annual read on physician and executive comp. ClinicalRate publishes the daily read on clinical pay and bill rates — for the teams pricing this week’s requisitions.

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365days

Refresh interval on an annual survey

An annual survey is current exactly once a year. Every staffing rate quoted against it for the other 364 days carries drift.

Cadence comparison · survey publication schedules

The gap

Annual benchmarks can’t price a weekly market.

SullivanCotter’s surveys are a fixture of health-system compensation committees — physician, APP, and executive comp, methodically collected and annually published. For governance and comp-plan design, that rigor is the point.

But the contingent labor market doesn’t wait for publication day. Travel nurse bill rates reprice weekly. Allied and per-diem rates swing with local census. An annual percentile is an anchor for committees — not an instrument for a pricing desk quoting against this morning’s market.

ClinicalRate covers that operational surface: 428 canonical clinical roles with pay and bill rates refreshed daily, state and metro cuts, and delivery through UI, read API, and warehouse share — built for the teams that touch the rate every day.

Side by side

Where the two datasets diverge.

Different instruments for different jobs. Here is the capability-level view.

Capability

ClinicalRate

Live market intelligence

SullivanCotter

Annual compensation survey

Refresh cadence

Daily

Annual

Role coverage

428 canonical clinical roles — nursing, allied, APP, physician

~220 physician + executive roles

Geographic granularity

State + metro

National + region

Bill rate visibility

Pay rate & bill rate

Pay rate only

Data source

Placement events, postings, and contract feeds — normalized daily

Participant-submitted survey responses

API access

Full read API + warehouse share on Enterprise

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Contingent / travel coverage

Core focus — travel, per diem, contract, and permanent

Employed compensation focus

Honest scoping

When each one is the right tool.

We sell against stale data, not against good instruments used for the right job.

◆ Reach for ClinicalRate when

You quote staffing rates and the market moves faster than once a year
You need bill rates and margin visibility, not just pay benchmarks
Your roles are nursing and allied — outside executive survey scope
You want metro-level granularity for local pricing calls
You need programmatic access via API or warehouse share

◇ SullivanCotter still earns its seat when

You’re designing physician or executive comp plans with board oversight
You need survey rigor for fair-market-value and compliance review
You benchmark executive pay structures across health systems
Your comp committee’s charter references their surveys by name

FAQ

ClinicalRate vs SullivanCotter, asked directly.

For staffing and contingent-labor pricing, yes — that market needs daily data SullivanCotter doesn’t publish. For executive and physician comp-plan governance, the annual surveys do a job ClinicalRate doesn’t try to do. Many customers run both.

The pipeline refreshes daily, and every number in the platform shows its sample size and observation window. You’re never guessing how fresh a percentile is — the n and the dates are on the screen.

No. The taxonomy is 428 clinical roles — nursing, allied, advanced practice, and physician. Executive comp benchmarking stays with the annual surveys built for it.

Yes. Book a demo and bring a percentile you currently anchor on — we’ll run the same role and market through the live platform with full sample-size transparency so you can judge the delta yourself.

Other comparisons

See how the rest stack up.

The market won\u2019t wait for publication day.

Bring the survey percentile you anchor on today. We’ll run the same role and metro through the live platform and show you the drift.

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