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Chief Information Officer (CIO) jobs: 73 open roles, pay, industries and skills

73 open Chief Information Officer jobs (CIO), taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open. Also listed as Head of IT, Head of Information Technology. Listings that state pay show a median of $230,000 a year.

The market for Chief Information Officer work

Every figure is counted from verified open listings. Pay is what the employer advertises for the job.

Verified open Chief Information Officer jobs
73

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Median pay in listings that state it
$230,000

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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State with the most openings
New York (11)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Industry hiring the most
Technology & Software (31%)

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
26%

Source: NextChapter verified openings, read in full.

What a CIO does

C-suite role in Operations.

Internal technology: systems, infrastructure, vendors, data platforms and the IT budget that keeps the business running.

Usually reports to the CEO or CFO.

Other ways this role is written

  • CIO
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Head of IT
  • Head of Information Technology

Listings under any of these titles are counted on this page. Assistant, associate, manager and staff titles are not.

Open Chief Information Officer jobs

Verified against the employer’s own career site within the last week.

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CIO salary

From 12 open listings that state pay. Annual, in US dollars, base pay only.

Lower quarter
$187,500
Median
$230,000
Upper quarter
$279,500

Leadership pay often includes bonus and equity that a listing does not state. Treat these figures as the floor of the conversation, not the whole package.

Best industries for CIO jobs

Employers hiring the most, as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry. Median pay shown where at least 8 listings state it.

Where CIO jobs are

States with the most open listings; median pay where at least 8 listings state it.

Skills CIO jobs ask for

Named in the listings themselves, as a share of 35 Chief Information Officer listings that name skills. Leadership listings name fewer skills than individual-contributor ones, so this is a signal, not a checklist.

Most named in CIO listings

  1. 1. erp34%
  2. 2. audit34%
  3. 3. risk management20%
  4. 4. change management17%
  5. 5. onboarding17%
  6. 6. project management14%
  7. 7. forecasting14%
  8. 8. aws14%
  9. 9. vendor management14%
  10. 10. agile14%

Across all Operations openings

  1. 1. supply chain13%
  2. 2. procurement13%
  3. 3. logistics11%
  4. 4. project management9%
  5. 5. excel7%
  6. 6. onboarding4%
  7. 7. audit3%
  8. 8. inventory management3%
  9. 9. lean3%
  10. 10. risk management3%

AI skills for CIO jobs

Specific AI skills named in the full posting text, such as prompt engineering, AI governance or an AI tool. A general mention of AI does not count.

26% of 34 open Chief Information Officer listings ask for a specific AI skill, against 2% of all Operations openings.

AI skills named most often

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work21%
  2. 2. AI adoption and change management15%
  3. 3. AI governance and risk9%
  4. 4. MLOps3%
  5. 5. AI in business apps (Agentforce, Now Assist)3%

Do AI skills change chief information officer pay?

For Operations roles in general, as of November 2, 2026. This is the function’s figure, not one for chief information officer alone: one title rarely has enough listings on both sides.

Among Operations listings, those that ask for an AI skill advertise +24.8% (about $32.5k) compared with similar listings that do not, matched on level and industry.

Listings that ask for an AI skill
$160,000
median, from 523 paid listings
Listings that never mention AI
$111,500
median, from 2,344 paid listings

Advertised pay only: the midpoint of the range an employer posted, on live U.S. postings read from the full text. “Asks for an AI skill” means the posting names a specific AI skill; “no AI” means it never mentions AI. A difference in what is advertised is not a promise of what you would be paid, and it does not show that learning a skill causes a raise.

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The Operations ladder

The same function at other levels: where this role comes from and where it leads.

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Job titles under CIO

The exact titles employers use, with their own job and salary pages.

Employers hiring for CIO roles

  • Ellucian 4
  • Kirby Partners 2
  • American Board of Emergency Medicine - ABEM 2
  • Arsenault 2
  • JRG Partners 2
  • Signify Technology 2
  • PNC Financial Services Group 1
  • Joyce University of Nursing and Health Sciences 1
  • The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business 1
  • Yarmouth & Choate 1
  • LanceSoft 1
  • Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines 1

CIO questions

What does a CIO do?
Internal technology: systems, infrastructure, vendors, data platforms and the IT budget that keeps the business running. Usually reports to the CEO or CFO.
What does CIO stand for?
CIO stands for Chief Information Officer. The same job is also written Head of IT, Head of Information Technology.
How many CIO jobs are open?
73 verified open Chief Information Officer jobs, each checked against the employer’s own career site within the last week.
How much does a CIO make?
Among 12 open Chief Information Officer listings that state pay, the median is $230,000 a year, and half of listings fall between $187,500 and $279,500. This is pay the employer advertises for the job, not total compensation such as bonus or equity.
Where are CIO jobs?
New York (11), Florida (6), North Carolina (6), Texas (5) have the most open Chief Information Officer listings.
Which industries hire for CIO roles?
Technology & Software (31%), Financial Services & Banking (21%), Education & EdTech (11%), Government & Public Sector (10%), as a share of listings whose employer has a known industry.
What skills do CIO jobs ask for?
The skills named most often in open Chief Information Officer listings are erp, audit, risk management, change management, onboarding.
Do CIO jobs ask for AI skills?
26% of 34 open Chief Information Officer listings read in full name a specific AI skill. The most common is AI tools in daily work.

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