CTO
CTO owns direction, trade-offs, and outcomes across teams.
Published signal
Leadership familyHiring Ask for one hard decision, the metric it changed, and what the candidate stopped doing.
Candidate Show scope, decision quality, and business impact—not team size alone.
Data Broad DOU leadership groups, not exact executive-title medians; Engineering Managers moved into Tech Leadership. Broad DOU leadership groups, not exact executive-title medians.
Independent salary benchmark
DOU salary survey
Salary range history
| Survey | Lower quartile | Median | Upper quartile | Respondents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3200 | $5000 | $7900 | 74 | |
| $4950 | $6100 | $8000 | 76 | |
| $4300 | $6650 | $8000 | 41 | |
| $4000 | $5500 | $7350 | 55 | |
| $5000 | $6000 | $7675 | 42 | |
| $4225 | $5750 | $7500 | 46 | |
| $5450 | $7000 | $9050 | 44 | |
| $4740 | $6700 | $8430 | 43 | |
| $4700 | $6580 | $10000 | 38 | |
| $5000 | $7500 | $10000 | 55 |
Chief technology officers · monthly net base salary in USD; bonuses excluded; all locations in the published CSV.
Derived from the shortened public salary-survey data published by DOU. Jobnote and DOU vacancy salaries are separate datasets.
Most wanted skills
Counts of active jobs now and salaries.