Senior Care Workforce Risk Benchmark: Quarterly Research Methodology
The is quarterly original research on workforce risk in senior housing & care, computed from participant payroll and scheduling extracts rather than recollection. is published as of and freezes seven measures, the sample frame, the suppression rules, and the participation floor before any data is collected. No edition has been published yet, so this page contains method and calendar — not findings. That order is deliberate: a benchmark whose definitions can move after collection is not a benchmark.
On this page
Definitions are frozen before collection so editions stay comparable. If a definition changes, the methodology version increments and prior editions are not restated.
Dates are published in advance so the program cannot select a favorable window after the fact.
Stated before collection, and republished with every edition.
Capability: Workforce Risk Intelligence Engine (WRIE) . Practice: retention analytics playbook . Evaluation: predictive turnover buyer’s guide . Labor cost: payroll forecasting best practices . Participation and questions: request an executive briefing .
Key points
- Six-step research methodology for a quarterly workforce risk benchmark in senior housing and care, from sample frame through suppression rules and versioned archiving.
- Quarterly original research measuring workforce risk in US senior housing and care — voluntary separation rate, first-90-day separation share, overtime density, agency hour share, open-shift fill latency, schedule volatility, and supervisor span — computed from participant payroll and scheduling extracts against frozen definitions.
- No. Methodology v1.0 is published as of September 2, 2026, and the inaugural Q4 2026 edition is planned for a field window of October 1 to November 14, 2026 with target publication in December 2026. Until an edition is published, SeniorCRE publishes no benchmark values, and any figure attributed to this program does not exist.
- US assisted living, memory care, independent living, and skilled nursing communities operated by organizations with two or more communities. Single-community operators, home care, hospice-only providers, and hospital-based post-acute units are out of frame in methodology v1.0 because their labor structures are not comparable.
- Participation requires payroll or time-and-attendance extracts plus a scheduling extract for the quarter. Survey-only responses are recorded separately and never blended into system-derived measures. No protected characteristics are collected, and no individual-level identifiers are retained after aggregation.
- Measures are reported as medians with interquartile range. Any cell backed by fewer than five organizations or fewer than fifteen communities is suppressed and shown as suppressed. An edition publishes only if at least twelve organizations covering at least sixty communities submit system-derived extracts; otherwise the shortfall is published and no figures are.
- It is not a probability sample and is not projectable to the industry; participation is self-selected toward better-instrumented operators. It establishes exposure, not causation, so no intervention, product, or vendor may be credited with a change in a measure. No individual employee is scored, ranked, or identified, and no employment decision may be made from it.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the Senior Care Workforce Risk Benchmark?
- Quarterly original research measuring workforce risk in US senior housing and care — voluntary separation rate, first-90-day separation share, overtime density, agency hour share, open-shift fill latency, schedule volatility, and supervisor span — computed from participant payroll and scheduling extracts against frozen definitions.
- Have results been published?
- No. Methodology v1.0 is published as of September 2, 2026, and the inaugural Q4 2026 edition is planned for a field window of October 1 to November 14, 2026 with target publication in December 2026. Until an edition is published, SeniorCRE publishes no benchmark values, and any figure attributed to this program does not exist.
- Who is in the sample frame?
- US assisted living, memory care, independent living, and skilled nursing communities operated by organizations with two or more communities. Single-community operators, home care, hospice-only providers, and hospital-based post-acute units are out of frame in methodology v1.0 because their labor structures are not comparable.
- How is data collected and protected?
- Participation requires payroll or time-and-attendance extracts plus a scheduling extract for the quarter. Survey-only responses are recorded separately and never blended into system-derived measures. No protected characteristics are collected, and no individual-level identifiers are retained after aggregation.
- What are the suppression and publication rules?
- Measures are reported as medians with interquartile range. Any cell backed by fewer than five organizations or fewer than fifteen communities is suppressed and shown as suppressed. An edition publishes only if at least twelve organizations covering at least sixty communities submit system-derived extracts; otherwise the shortfall is published and no figures are.
- What can this research not be used for?
- It is not a probability sample and is not projectable to the industry; participation is self-selected toward better-instrumented operators. It establishes exposure, not causation, so no intervention, product, or vendor may be credited with a change in a measure. No individual employee is scored, ranked, or identified, and no employment decision may be made from it.
https://seniorcre.com/workforce-intelligence/senior-care-workforce-risk-benchmark