For all ten senior roles we looked at, more 2022 starters than 2019 starters had left the role within two years. Chief revenue officers and chiefs of staff had the highest shares, at about 52 and 50 in 100 of 2022 starters. Among C-suite roles, CROs ran at roughly double the CEO rate in every start year.
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Live Data Technologies tracks job changes for about 124 million professionals, compiled from public information on the open web. These figures follow about 190,000 senior roles that started between 2019 and 2022, worldwide, across ten job titles.
In Live Data Technologies data, chief revenue officers and chiefs of staff had the highest two-year exit share of ten senior roles: about 52 and 50 in 100 who started in 2022 left the role within two years, against 26 in 100 CEOs.
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By start year, share who left the role within two years (in 100):
| Role | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief revenue officerCRO | 36 | 37 | 47 | 52 |
| Chief of staffCoS | 45 | 50 | 53 | 50 |
| VP of MarketingVP Mktg | 38 | 42 | 47 | 46 |
| Chief product officerCPO | 30 | 37 | 41 | 43 |
| VP of SalesVP Sales | 35 | 37 | 43 | 43 |
| COOCOO | 28 | 31 | 33 | 36 |
| CTOCTO | 26 | 28 | 31 | 32 |
| Chief people officerCHRO | 22 | 25 | 29 | 30 |
| CEOCEO | 18 | 19 | 23 | 26 |
| General counselGC | 22 | 24 | 27 | 26 |
Source: Live Data Technologies data. Share of roles that ended within two years of starting, by start year, companies with 50 or more staff today.
Among C-suite roles, chief revenue officers: in Live Data Technologies data, about 52 in 100 who started in 2022 left the role within two years, ahead of chief product officers (43) and about double the CEO rate (26).
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Ask about portfolio dataEach role is a job record whose title matches the role. Interim, acting, fractional, deputy, assistant, associate and advisory titles are left out, along with titles that only share a keyword (field CTOs, healthcare revenue cycle officers, chiefs of staff to an executive). Each role page lists its own rules.
Each role is followed for two years from its start date. Left means the role has a recorded end date in that time. That includes a move to another title at the same company, and a title recorded again at the same company. In samples for three roles, between 1 in 100 (chief revenue officers) and about 1 in 10 (chiefs of staff) ended roles were the same title recorded again at the same company. Some roles never get an end date recorded. The two effects pull in opposite directions, so the shares are approximate.
Company size is measured on today's headcount, so firms that have since closed or shrunk below 50 staff are missing, more so for older start years. Read the rise from 2019 to 2022 as a comparison of start-year groups, not a measured trend. Months are counted from the recorded start date; a start recorded only as a year counts from January.
The company figures come from samples of about 100 ended roles, not drawn at random, so treat them as rough: give or take about 10 in 100.
Roles are worldwide, at companies with 50 or more staff today, including public-sector employers. We checked the country split for three roles: more than half of CEOs, about 7 in 10 chiefs of staff and about 3 in 4 chief revenue officers with a known location were in the US. Coverage is thinner outside the US.
The data covers people with a findable professional presence online. It is not a census of all workers.
Live Data Technologies data on senior leaders has been cited by The CMO Club ("CMOs Keep Leaving at Higher Rates Than CFOs and CTOs"), The Wall Street Journal ("Corporate America Is Axing the 'Micro-Team' Boss") and Business Insider ("Why the C-suite is getting so big").
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The finding: In Live Data Technologies data, chief revenue officers and chiefs of staff had the highest two-year exit share of ten senior roles: about 52 and 50 in 100 who started in 2022 left the role within two years, against 26 in 100 CEOs. https://www.livedatatech.com/insights/executive-tenure
Data as of October 2026. Next update planned for January 2027. Need these figures for your own roles or companies? Ask for a custom cut.