Chief Sustainability Officers

Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.

The median annual salary for Chief Sustainability Officers in the US is $206,420.

The role is projected to grow 4% over the next decade (about as fast as average). Current US employment is approximately 309,400 workers.

The typical entry education is a Bachelor's degree. Building a foundation in the top skills below will strengthen your application.

The most in-demand skills for this role include sustainable finance, global standards for sustainability reporting, corporate social responsibility, strategic planning, data analytics, corporate law. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives Chief Sustainability Officers a score of 0.60 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.

Chief Sustainability Officers has moderate barrier to entry — moderately gated — a bachelor's degree or equivalent training is typically required.