Chief compliance officers and compliance staff wondering how their annual salaries stack up against their peers will want to check out a new salary benchmark report published by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association.

The 2017 “Cross-Industry Chief Compliance Officer and Staff Salary Surveys” report analyzed the salaries of 444 individuals who were selected for the report by satisfying the following criteria: the chief compliance officer (CCO) worked for a non-healthcare provider; and was responsible for at least 26 percent of a company’s legal and regulatory risk.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...