An overheated demand for compliance officers in the post-Covid era finally cooled off in 2024, according to Compliance Week’s Inside the Mind of the CCO survey.

Now in its sixth year, the Inside the Mind survey pegged average salaries (plus bonuses) for chief compliance officers (CCOs) and chief ethics and compliance officers (CECOs) in 2024 at $295,000, down 10 percent from the average of $329,000 for CCOs and CECOs in 2023 and well below the high-water mark of $335,000 in 2022.

Aaron Nicodemus is the Editor-in-Chief of Compliance Week. He previously worked as a reporter for Bloomberg Law and as business editor at the Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Mass. Email: aaron.nicodemus@complianceweek.com LinkedIn:...