The Up Group Digital Leaders Remuneration Guide 2017 The purpose of this report is to once again provide an up-to-date benchmark for digital executives’ base salary, across a range of functions, levels and company types. Our day-to-day work sees us placing senior executives in roles across the digital economy. From high-growth VC-backed scale-ups, to PEbacked companies and established digital corporates - as well as placing transformative leaders into traditional environments. For this year’s report, we’ve pooled candidate data and coupled this with our own insight to produce an overall guide to remuneration. For ease of comparison, the majority of salary data is UK based and all remuneration values are displayed in GBP. It goes without saying that these findings are based on a limited dataset, and therefore caution should be exercised before drawing firm conclusions, but the overarching trends outlined in this report are borne out by our day-to-day experiences. If there’s anything in the report that you’d like to discuss further, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Key Base salaries displayed in £GBP 000,s VC-backed - Series A VC-backed - Series B upwards PE-backed - Small and mid cap Listed Digital Listed Traditional
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 120 - 180
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 100 - 150
180 - 250
150 - 250 200 - 350
150 - 300
300 - 360
250 - 320
450 +
For this year’s report, we’ve pooled candidate data and coupled this with our own insight to produce an overall guide to remuneration.
300 - 400
General Management Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 100 - 150 150 - 180 150 - 250 200 - 250 200 - 280
Chief Financial Officer
Finance #2
VC-backed - Series A
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 120 - 150
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 75 - 90
150 - 250
1100 - 150
VC-backed - Series B upwards
150 - 300
100 - 180
250 - 350
140 - 200 450+
PE-backed - Small and mid cap
Chief Marketing Officer Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . .
150 - 225
Marketing #2 Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 75 - 100
100 - 150
Listed digital
150 - 225 150 - 250
Listed Traditional
180 - 275 200 - 400
100 - 175 110 - 180 150 - 200 180 - 225
Chief Technology Officer
Technology #2
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 110 - 150
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 100 - 120
150 - 220
120 - 170
150 - 230
125 - 180 200 - 300
150 - 200
250 - 320
Chief Product Officer
125 - 175
Product #2
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . .
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 100 - 120
100 - 150
120 - 170
150 - 230 150 - 250 200 - 300 200 - 300
125 - 175 125 - 175 140 - 200
Chief Commercial Officer/ Chief Revenue Officer
Commercial #2
VC-backed - Series A
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 100 - 150
Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . 80 - 120
150 - 200
100 - 150
VC-backed - Series B upwards
125 - 250
125 - 200
200 - 250
200 - 250
220 - 300
PE-backed - Small and mid cap
Chief People Officer/Chief HR Officer Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . .
180 - 250
People #2 Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . N/A
80 - 100
Listed digital
100 - 150
120 - 200 150 - 250
100 - 150
Listed Traditional
200 - 300 200 - 350
150 - 180 150 - 200
Chief Data Officer Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . N/A N/A 150 - 175 175 - 220 200 - 350
Chief Digital Officer Base 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 Salary . . . . . . . N/A N/A 175 - 250 N/A 220 - 375
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