Compensation for chief financial officers rose 9% in 2021 compared to the prior year, as CFOs helped their companies navigate the ongoing economic effects of the pandemic, including a tight labor market, backlogged supply chains and higher inflation. Finance chiefs at S&P 500-listed companies last year made $4.7 million in median compensation, continuing an upward…
2020 will go down in the corporate annals as the year of the CFO. That’s a bold pronouncement, but at a time of extraordinary economic uncertainty during a literal existential crisis, CEOs of private companies (and publicly traded ones, too) turned to the professional knowledge and judgment of their CFOs to plan, manage and direct…
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on capital management, the CFO (chief financial officer) role in public companies has taken on greater prominence over the past few months. We used our CompanyIQ® research platform to review CFO and CEO (chief executive officer) pay in the S&P 500 for the 2015-2019 compensation years. The data shows where…