Of the 290 respondents to our โ€œInside the Mind of the CCOโ€ survey, just 29 report yearly compensationย of more than $400,000. Weโ€™ll call this groupย โ€œThe 10 Percentersโ€ (see accompanying chart). Among thisย highly paid cohort, 55 percent are female, 76 percent workย for companies that employ more than 10,000 people, andย 45 percent are either CCOs or CECOs.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...