In a city like San Francisco, according to local Austin job board Indeed, the average Chief Marketing Officer earns approximately $173,000 per year in salary. This can obviously jump significantly, while in a place like Texas, it can float around the average of $120,000. Each location has outliers that stretch into the hundreds of thousands, but the fact of the matter is, an experienced CMO comes at a price that many startups or small businesses do not have the luxury to afford. This is where a Fractional CMO can step in and help drive a marketing team from an executive-level, and help a junior marketing team execute in a way that a company may not otherwise have the means to afford. A Fractional CMO can do this by sharing their time and expertise between several companies in a way that technology, communication, and project management platforms previously did not allow for.