2026 Advanced Practice Provider Compensation Survey

This market-leading survey offers the data and critical insights healthcare systems need to develop, assess, and align provider compensation.

This market-leading survey offers the data and critical insights healthcare systems need to develop, assess, and align provider compensation.

Our survey provides an in-depth review of data and trends from nearly 81,000 advanced practice providers (APPs), other non-physician providers, and allied health professionals.  Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Physician Assistants (PAs), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), Certified Anesthesiologist Assistants (CAAs), and Certified Nurse Midwives (CNMs) account for more than 53,000 providers in the dataset. The survey includes specialty-specific data for 113 NP and PA specialties, covering compensation, productivity, benefits, compensation plan design and incentives, recruiting efforts and signing bonuses, CPT code practice profiling, and numerous other key benchmarking metrics. The survey also includes comprehensive benchmarks for 27 types of APPs and other non-physician provider types.

Survey members receive exclusive access to reports and online benchmarking tools that provide in-depth analysis of state, regional, and national market trends, including:

  • ECG’s expert assessment of provider trends, issues, and opportunities related to compensation, production, benefits, recruiting, and more.
  • Detailed compensation metrics by specialty, including clinical, nonclinical, base, and incentive compensation (such as clinical quality, patient satisfaction, and work RVUs).
  • Production metrics by specialty, including net professional collections, work RVUs and total RVUs, and compensation-to-production ratios.
  • Benefits information, including benefits expense by specialty, benefits as a percentage of compensation, retirement expense, retirement as a percentage of compensation, and continuing medical education expense.
  • Additional metrics, such as primary care panel sizes, starting salaries, signing bonuses, and relocation allowances for new hires.
  • ECGVault®, our online data portal that contains current and historical survey data and benchmarks at the market, organization, and provider levels. ECGVault allows for robust organization and market trending of APP performance, custom reporting, and downloading of benchmarks and related materials. Members purchase an annual membership for access to ECGVault’s Dynamic Reports, which entitles them to an unlimited number of users and 24/7 access to reports and data.

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About Our Annual Surveys

ECG is a leader in the market with our annual surveys, aggregating valuable data and critical insights to help your healthcare organization develop, assess, and align with industry benchmarks. By participating, your organization receives complimentary access to detailed analysis of market trends and opportunities, plus summary tables, graphs, and charts of relevant compensation and production statistics for each specialty, and numerous other benefits customized to each annual survey.

The healthcare industry’s most rigorous and accurate benchmarking resource—right at your fingertips.