{"id":295178,"date":"2026-02-03T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jthelander.com\/?p=295178"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:34:00","slug":"startup-executive-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/?p=295178","title":{"rendered":"How Startup Executive Compensation Has Changed Since 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using the Thelander YoY private company dataset, we looked to see which private company executives have seen the biggest movement in total cash since 2021.<br><br>For startups with\u00a0$50\u2013$109.9M in total financing: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CEOs\u00a0saw median total cash rise from\u00a0$437,980 (2021)\u00a0to\u00a0$480,500 (2025), with the\u00a075th percentile\u00a0climbing from\u00a0$521,277\u00a0to\u00a0$590,131.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chief Scientific Officers\u00a0had some of the\u00a0biggest jumps: median total cash went from\u00a0$338,545\u00a0to\u00a0$395,849, and the\u00a075th percentile\u00a0from\u00a0$415,410\u00a0to\u00a0$506,508\u00a0over the same period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, CSOs have quietly seen some of the strongest total cash growth in this funding band\u2014especially at the top end of the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Curious to see how your current comp compares to real-time market data? Fill out the Thelander Private Company Compensation Survey today to find out &#x27a1;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"http:\/\/survey.jthelander.com\/\">survey.jthelander.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Thelander YoY private company dataset, we looked to see which private company executives have seen the biggest movement in total cash since 2021. For startups with\u00a0$50\u2013$109.9M in total financing: In other words, CSOs have quietly seen some of the strongest total cash growth in this funding band\u2014especially at the top end of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-295178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-drops","tag-private-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295178","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=295178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightturn.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}