New data from Kruze Consulting’s salary data from more than 200 startups show that CTOs, on average, are on higher salaries than their CEO counterparts. On average, co-founders make the same ...

Salaries make up around 75% of a startup's operating expenses, per an analysis by Kruze Consulting. The consultancy analyzed 450 VC-backed startups' payroll records to reveal employee salaries. An ...

For instance, Kruze also found that very senior engineers enter seed startups with salaries ranging from $180,000 to $235,000 in the Bay Area and $160,000 to $210,000 in other areas.

This year, 5% of startup CEOs took zero salary, compared to 8% last year, Kruze said. On the other end of the spectrum, 2% of startup CEOs had a salary at $300,000 or higher in 2024. In 2023, 5% ...

The consulting firm found that the average annual salary for CEOs based in the US, many of whom are early-stage founders, has dropped from $150,000 in 2022 to $142,000 as of this year — a four ...

Specifically, Kruze found that in 2024, the average CEO salary for a company that was in its Series B round of funding decreased by around 9.6% to an average salary of $227,000 (down from an ...