Welcome to the 2024 Salary Guide
For the past two years, our annual Salary Guides have focused on leadership during periods of uncertainty. We knew that the world after COVID, the Great Resignation and the Great Regret would be full of surprises. While unemployment remained at a historic low, rising inflation and global supply issues pointed to a probable recession. But as we entered the second half of 2023, unemployment continued its history-making trend, job creation broke expectations, and inflation rates dropped dramatically to near 3%. CFOs were more optimistic on side-stepping a recession, recalibrating their year-end projections and green-lighting projects that had been paused in anticipation of a full-blown downturn. With this improved outlook we are approaching 2024 with a new theme: “Moving Strategically Forward: Financial Leadership in an Era of Constant Change.” We are cautiously optimistic (emphasis on the caution) with the 21st edition of our Salary Guide. In the second half of 2023, the labor market finally began to normalize, quit rates fell to a two-year low and the Fed slowed and even paused increases in the target Federal
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