Management

Chief Executives

SOC 11-1011

Set the direction of an organization, allocate its resources, and answer to a board or owners.

The job

Median pay

$214k

$130k to $356k typical range

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing

+3.2% projected

Openings a year

19k

BLS projection

Typical education

Bachelor's plus years

Our model

AI displacement risk

Low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

47/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

91st pct

More exposed than 91% of occupations · modeled estimate · 54th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

70/100

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Key skills

Critical Thinking
Speaking
Writing
Reading Comprehension
Active Listening
Monitoring

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	34,700	1.9	1.4×	$219k
Florida	13,577	1.4	1.0×	$183k~
Pennsylvania	8,850	1.5	1.1×	$233k
Texas	8,780	0.6	0.5×	$258k
New York	8,430	0.9	0.7×	$258k
Minnesota	6,740	2.3	1.7×	$196k
Massachusetts	6,590	1.8	1.4×	$270k~
Michigan	4,950	1.1	0.9×	$256k
Virginia	4,870	1.2	0.9×	$311k
Arizona	4,705	1.5	1.1×	$182k~

All 51 states

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
Tennessee	4,700	1.4	1.1×	$199k
Illinois	4,620	0.8	0.6×	$332k
Ohio	4,470	0.8	0.6×	$176k
Georgia	4,080	0.8	0.6×	$208k
Arkansas	3,550	2.7	2.1×	$120k
Maryland	3,180	1.2	0.9×	$249k
Washington	3,170	0.9	0.7×	$340k
Utah	3,140	1.8	1.4×	$172k
Wisconsin	3,123	1.1	0.8×	$208k~
Iowa	3,050	2.0	1.5×	$211k
Idaho	2,920	3.4	2.6×	$177k
Colorado	2,897	1.0	0.8×	$213k~
Missouri	2,550	0.9	0.7×	$172k
Nebraska	2,510	2.5	1.9×	$215k
New Jersey	2,430	0.6	0.4×	$310k
Oklahoma	2,390	1.4	1.1×	$164k
Louisiana	2,220	1.1	0.9×	$173k~
Kentucky	2,070	1.0	0.8×	$180k
Kansas	1,960	1.4	1.0×	$158k
Washington DC	1,938	2.8	2.1×	$288k~
North Carolina	1,930	0.4	0.3×	$314k
Indiana	1,820	0.6	0.4×	$254k
South Carolina	1,740	0.8	0.6×	$169k
West Virginia	1,700	2.4	1.8×	$152k
Connecticut	1,660	1.0	0.7×	$295k
Maine	1,580	2.5	1.9×	$139k
Nevada	1,370	0.9	0.7×	$150k
New Hampshire	1,001	1.5	1.1×	$169k~
Oregon	910	0.5	0.3×	$342k
Alabama	810	0.4	0.3×	$166k
Montana	670	1.3	1.0×	$182k
Alaska	640	2.0	1.5×	$167k
South Dakota	510	1.1	0.8×	$281k
Hawaii	470	0.7	0.6×	$282k
Rhode Island	460	0.9	0.7×	$235k
Delaware	390	0.8	0.6×	$200k
North Dakota	380	0.9	0.7×	$165k
Vermont	360	1.2	0.9×	$175k
Mississippi	310	0.3	0.2×	$139k
New Mexico	100	0.1	0.1×	$124k
Wyoming	60	0.2	0.2×	$148k

Top metro areas

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA10,800 jobs · $234k median
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ7,180 jobs · $301k median
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH5,210 jobs
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA5,190 jobs · $289k median
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI4,500 jobs · $210k median
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD4,120 jobs · $293k median
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA3,680 jobs · $170k median
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN3,610 jobs · $345k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.