The CFO Salary Benchmark Report
See what 600+ finance leaders are earning in 2025, and how pay varies by role, region, and gender. Use the data to negotiate better pay and understand how your salary stacks up in the market.
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What's inside the report?
Salary benchmarks by role, region & company size
Discover how finance salaries are shifting in 2025, and how your compensation compares.Practical strategies to negotiate better pay
Expert tips on how to leverage the data to confidently secure your next raise or offer.The real impact of AI on finance salaries
Learn how technology is reshaping skills and compensation expectations.
New insights into the gender pay gap
See where disparities remain widest, and who’s most impacted.
Salary Benchmark Report 2025 — FAQ
Spendesk's Salary Benchmark Report 2025 is a downloadable research report that presents role-, industry-, and seniority-level salary benchmarks, total compensation metrics, and actionable insights. Spendesk pairs the report with its Analytics and Budgets features so finance teams align compensation planning with real spend data, export benchmark tables as CSV, and sync findings into internal planning documents.
Spendesk compiled the 2025 report using anonymized, aggregated payroll and spending signals from Spendesk customer accounts combined with external market salary datasets and employer surveys. Spendesk's data processing and privacy controls ensure individual employees are not identifiable, and the resulting benchmarks are integrated into Spendesk Analytics for segmented comparisons by country, industry, and role.
Spendesk makes the Salary Benchmark Report 2025 available as a downloadable PDF from the landing page after submitting business contact information. Spendesk provides immediate access to the report file and an option to import benchmark tables into Spendesk Analytics or export them as CSV, enabling finance teams to apply insights directly to Budgets and expense planning.
Spendesk helps finance teams apply the report by mapping benchmark data to Budgets, using Analytics to model salary scenarios, and enforcing hiring spend via Approval Workflows. Spendesk's exportable benchmark tables and dashboard visualizations let teams quantify total cost of employment, monitor budget impact in real time, and create approval rules tied to hiring and compensation spend.