{"id":279435,"date":"2024-02-28T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/?p=279435"},"modified":"2024-02-28T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T21:22:00","slug":"whats-the-relationship-between-company-valuations-total-amount-of-financing-and-ceo-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/?p=279435","title":{"rendered":"Private Company CEO Compensation by Valuation &amp; Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2022,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/09\/02\/the-relationship-between-valuations-and-ceo-comp-may-surprise-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fortune<\/a>\u00a0used Thelander data to look at CEO compensation by financing and valuation. With the challenging fundraising environment, private companies staying private longer and shifting valuations, we wanted\u00a0to see how\u00a0the data has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chart 1<\/strong>&nbsp;looks at CEO&nbsp;<strong>median total cash<\/strong>&nbsp;year-over-year by&nbsp;<strong>total financing<\/strong>. Our data shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The median total cash has generally increased since 2020 for every financing bracket (except for in the $15 &#8211; $49.9 million category).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The biggest increase can be seen in the $90 million+ category, where the total cash went from $450,000 (2020) to $509,050 (2023).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image img-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/8a28f8a7-f5e3-4776-7762-9032afbf0531.png\" alt=\"CEO Median Total Cash\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chart 2<\/strong>&nbsp;looks at CEO&nbsp;<strong>median total cash<\/strong>&nbsp;year-over-year by&nbsp;<strong>valuation<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\" alt=\"bullet\" class=\"wp-image-278614\" style=\"width:28px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compensation by valuation tends to fluctuate more than the total amount of financing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\" alt=\"bullet\" class=\"wp-image-278614\" style=\"width:28px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pattern for median total cash by&nbsp;valuation is similar to total amount of financing. Since 2020, the median total cash has generally increased, with the exception of&nbsp;the $90 &#8211; $199.9 million category in 2023 compared to 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image img-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7c81301a-a1ee-c856-9db2-811d72f306e6.png\" alt=\"CEO Median Total Cash\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chart 3<\/strong>&nbsp;looks at CEO&nbsp;<strong>median non-founder equity<\/strong>&nbsp;year-over-year by&nbsp;<strong>total financing<\/strong>.&nbsp;Our data shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\" alt=\"bullet\" class=\"wp-image-278614\" style=\"width:28px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The non-founder equity has been growing at the lowest financing level. At higher financing levels, the non-founder equity has stayed relatively stable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image img-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/9e7225cd-70e1-f761-730c-894c58dc472d.png\" alt=\"CEO Median Non-Founder Equity\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chart 4<\/strong>&nbsp;looks at CEO&nbsp;<strong>median non-founder equity<\/strong>&nbsp;year-over-year by&nbsp;<strong>valuation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bullet-swirl.png\" alt=\"bullet\" class=\"wp-image-278614\" style=\"width:28px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Non-founder equity percentages are lower for companies with a valuation of less than&nbsp;$30 million compared to less than $15 million in total financing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image img-border\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/925c304e-249d-9195-7e53-d64314c9c85c.png\" alt=\"CEO Median Non-Founder Equity\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The need for&nbsp;<strong>current<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>real-time<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>vetted<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>trustworthy<\/strong>&nbsp;compensation data that includes cash, equity, option pool, outside board comp&nbsp;is more important now than ever. We invite you to participate in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/survey.jthelander.com\/surveys\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thelander Private Company Compensation Survey<\/a>&nbsp;to secure&nbsp;<strong>free access<\/strong>&nbsp;to compensation data on the Thelander platform for fifty positions. Learn more about what&#8217;s covered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Thelander-Private-Company-Comp-Survey-Infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center btn-post wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.jthelander.com\/surveys\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Start the Survey Now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2022,\u00a0Fortune\u00a0used Thelander data to look at CEO compensation by financing and valuation. With the challenging fundraising environment, private companies staying private longer and shifting valuations, we wanted\u00a0to see how\u00a0the data has changed. Chart 1&nbsp;looks at CEO&nbsp;median total cash&nbsp;year-over-year by&nbsp;total financing. Our data shows: Chart 2&nbsp;looks at CEO&nbsp;median total cash&nbsp;year-over-year by&nbsp;valuation.&nbsp; Compensation by valuation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-279435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-newsletter","tag-private-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}