Business & Finance
Chief Sustainability Officers
Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.
Median salary
$206,420
Typical range
$74k – $372k
Job outlook
+4% (faster than average)
AI exposure
Plan a path to Chief Sustainability Officers
Education
Typical entry: Master's degree
Plan my path to this →Typical progression
Chief Sustainability Officers Intern
Internship
$36,855
~4 mos to advance
Junior Chief Sustainability Officers
Entry / Junior
$73,710
~2 yrs to advance
Chief Sustainability Officers
Established
$206,420
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Chief Sustainability Officers
Senior
$288,988
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Key skills
A typical day
- •Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of sustainability programs.
- •Develop or execute strategies to address issues such as energy use, resource conservation, recycling, pollution reduction, waste elimination, transportation, education, and building design.
- •Develop, or oversee the development of, sustainability evaluation or monitoring systems.
- •Supervise employees or volunteers working on sustainability projects.
- •Develop sustainability reports, presentations, or proposals for supplier, employee, academia, media, government, public interest, or other groups.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Business & Finance
Explore all- University of Pennsylvania6% admit · $112,000 grad pay
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology4% admit · $124,000 grad pay
- Harvard University4% admit · $119,000 grad pay
- University of California, Berkeley11% admit · $97,000 grad pay
- New York University12% admit · $84,000 grad pay
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