{"name":"US fractional executive day rates","edition":"2026-Q4","updated":"2026-11-01","publisher":"getoperators","source":"https://getoperators.co/us/day-rates","licence":"Free to reuse and republish with attribution to getoperators.co","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","method":"Day-rate bands for eleven fractional leadership seats in the United States. These are market observation rather than survey data: they are compiled from rates quoted to us during Operator Search briefs, from operators on the bench serving this market, and from published rates for the equivalent seats. They are bands, not means, and they carry less underlying data than the UK set, which comes off live listings. No per-seat full-time salary assumption is published for this market because we do not have one we can stand behind. See https://getoperators.co/us/day-rates for what these numbers do and do not support.","markets_available":["uk","us","uae"],"seats":11,"rates":[{"seat":"cfo","title":"Chief Financial Officer","day_rate_low":1000,"day_rate_high":2200,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for fundraise or exit work, and for regulated sectors.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["finance director","FD"]},{"seat":"cmo","title":"Chief Marketing Officer","day_rate_low":900,"day_rate_high":1800,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for category creation, rebrands and full funnel rebuilds.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["marketing director"]},{"seat":"cto","title":"Chief Technology Officer","day_rate_low":1000,"day_rate_high":2000,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for regulated sectors, AI systems and technical due diligence.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["chief information officer","CIO","head of IT"]},{"seat":"coo","title":"Chief Operating Officer","day_rate_low":900,"day_rate_high":1800,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for turnarounds, scale-ups past 50 people and multi-site operations.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["chief of staff","operations director","head of operations","interim operations director","EOS integrator"]},{"seat":"sales-director","title":"Sales Director or CRO","day_rate_low":900,"day_rate_high":1800,"higher_end_applies_for":"Often part fixed fee, part performance-linked. Agree the structure in writing before starting.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["chief revenue officer","CRO","chief commercial officer","CCO","chief sales officer","CSO","commercial director","head of sales","VP of sales"]},{"seat":"growth","title":"Head of Growth","day_rate_low":800,"day_rate_high":1500,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for marketplaces, subscription products and anything with a complex funnel.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":[]},{"seat":"product","title":"Chief Product Officer","day_rate_low":900,"day_rate_high":1700,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for complex B2B products and platform or API work.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["head of product","product director","chief product officer","CPO"]},{"seat":"people","title":"Chief People Officer","day_rate_low":800,"day_rate_high":1500,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for scale-ups hiring at pace and for TUPE, restructures or redundancy work.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["HR director","CHRO","chief people officer","head of people"]},{"seat":"ciso","title":"Chief Information Security Officer","day_rate_low":1200,"day_rate_high":2300,"higher_end_applies_for":"Among the highest fractional rates, driven by certification work and regulated sectors.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":[]},{"seat":"data","title":"Head of Data","day_rate_low":900,"day_rate_high":1700,"higher_end_applies_for":"Higher end for machine learning and AI strategy work as well as pipeline building.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["chief AI officer (priced as this seat)","chief data officer","CDO","head of data"]},{"seat":"general-counsel","title":"General Counsel","day_rate_low":1100,"day_rate_high":2100,"higher_end_applies_for":"Still materially below partner-level law firm rates for equivalent seniority.","typical_days_per_week":"1-3","full_time_salary_assumption":null,"currency":"USD","country":"US","also_called":["head of legal","legal counsel","in-house counsel"]}]}