Startup CEO Salaries Decline to 2019 Levels
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kruze Consulting, a leading CPA and finance consulting company for VC-backed startups, has released new data on startup CEO salaries. The average startup CEO salary in 2023 is $142,000, down from $150,000 in 2022 and $146,000 in 2021 and back to the same level as 2019. The decline is attributed to increasingly restricted capital markets and the resulting requirement to extend cash runways.
- New data from Kruze Consulting shows CEO salaries declining, gender pay gap shrinking and divide between thriving and surviving startups growing
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kruze Consulting , a leading CPA and finance consulting company for VC-backed startups, has released new data on startup CEO salaries. - The average startup CEO salary in 2023 is $142,000, down from $150,000 in 2022 and $146,000 in 2021 and back to the same level as 2019.
- The decline is attributed to increasingly restricted capital markets and the resulting requirement to extend cash runways.
- "Startup CEO salaries are declining as a result of constrained availability of capital to startups.