See where your pay sits against disclosed peer CFOs, with the filing behind every number.
You are heading into a pay review, a committee change, a succession or an IPO-readiness hire, and the peer comparison still means EDGAR lookups by hand. CFOCompensation gives you a private, personal percentile against filing-cited peers, by revenue band, sector and region. Every figure links to its filing.
- 3 days free when the app opens, no credit card required
- Every figure cited to its filing
- Private: your pay is purged within 90 days of cancellation
What negotiating blind actually costs
The peer data is public but scattered
It is spread across hundreds of DEF 14A filings with inconsistent layouts.
The manual spreadsheet route is slow and error-prone
Building the comparison by hand from EDGAR lookups can take a weekend.
A misjudged position means negotiating blind
The package at stake is worth hundreds of thousands to millions a year.
Equity or sign-on mis-sized at a hire, succession or IPO event
It sets the baseline for later years.
Enterprise platforms are built for issuers, committees and HR and priced accordingly. Free sources show static or estimated numbers with no personal percentile.
How CFOCompensation answers each one
- Own-pay entry normalised to Summary Compensation Table conventions
- Peer-set builder by revenue band, sector and region
- Percentile overall and by component over three proxy years
- Filing citations with last-updated stamps
- Disclosure-coverage indicator
Everything the benchmark needs to hold up
Peer-set builder
Percentile position
Filing citations
Coverage indicator
CFO-to-CEO pay percentage tracker (Executive Pro)
Form 990 nonprofit CFO positioning (Tracker and above)
How it works
- 1
Enter your own pay.
- 2
Build a peer set.
- 3
Read your percentile, open the citation, export a CSV or PDF.
What is a positioning gap worth?
Put a dollar figure on a positioning gap before your next pay conversation.
Calculate your ROIExample
$37,500
a year
- Total pay
- $750,000
- Positioning gap
- 5%
Example: illustrative 5% positioning gap on $750,000 total pay. Not a measured shortfall.
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CFO Annual Pay Review Prep Workbook
Your pay in, your percentile out: normalize base, bonus, equity and other pay to SCT conventions and place it against peer CFO figures you cite.
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CFO Offer and Equity Comparison Model
Your CFO offers in, one year-by-year view out: base, bonus, sign-on and equity on their vesting schedules, using only figures you enter.
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Complete Kit
Every CFO pay workbook, guide and kit from CFOCompensation.com in one download, with peer figures as filed and cited to SEC and IRS filings.
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From the blog
Read all CFOCompensation guides- Pay Review & Benchmarking
CFO Salary by Company Size: Reading Disclosed Pay by Revenue Band
Company size shapes which CFO rows are comparable. This guide shows how to define a revenue band, place each peer in it from filed figures, and state where disclosure runs thin.
- Pay Review & Benchmarking
Executive Compensation Peer Group Selection for a CFO
A peer set is a set of decisions. How to screen candidates by revenue band, sector and region, record an in-or-out reason for each, and hold the set until at least five distinct employers disclose a CFO.
- Reading Proxy Filings
How to Read a Summary Compensation Table, Column by Column
Salary, bonus, stock awards, option awards, non-equity incentive pay, pension and NQDC earnings, all other compensation, total: what each column reports and what it does not.
Three self-serve plans. One seat each.
Executive Pro
$199/mo
Peer CFO-to-CEO pay percentage, per proxy year
Compare Executive Pro against every plan
- proxy years in view
- 3proxy years in view
- distinct employers behind every percentile
- 5+distinct employers behind every percentile
- peer figure cited to its filing
- Everypeer figure cited to its filing
- after cancellation, your pay profile is purged
- 90 daysafter cancellation, your pay profile is purged
3 days free when the app opens, no credit card required
- SEC EDGAR DEF 14A + XBRL
- IRS Form 990 nonprofit filings