The Fractional Market
and Rates Index (FRX)
Live day-rate benchmarks and demand signals for fractional executives. Updated weekly.
The FRX Overview
Reading the market…
The Board
View all roles→Every role, in every market we track — AU, UK and US — ranked by day rate. Only roles with five or more verified rates are ranked; markets still building sit below. Click any row for the full breakdown: regional spread, what moves the rate, and how deep our bench runs.
The Trends
View all trends →Search attention and hiring demand, role by role — with the biggest week-on-week moves surfaced below.
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How this is ranked
Day-rate ranking uses each role's live median and only includes roles that have cleared the reliability gate (five or more verified rates) — roles still building show below the ranked list. Demand ranking uses week-on-week change in hiring-post volume from the same pipeline behind the Markets index. Both refresh weekly from the CMS/Attio benchmark pipeline — nothing on this page is estimated.
Executive rates we track
View all roles →Ten fractional roles, benchmarked weekly across the US, UK and Australia. This leaderboard ranks by role — industry-level breakdowns aren't in the data pipeline yet, so we're not showing a made-up one.
Frequently asked questions
Every rate behind Fractionus Markets comes from a verified engagement on the Fractionus network, recorded through our vetting and matching process, not scraped from job ads. The board shows the average of the verified rates for each role and region, refreshed every Monday. Each role's own page also reports the median.
The full daily fee a company pays a fractional executive. Fractionus charges companies nothing to hire, so the rates shown are what you would actually pay — no platform fees on top.
Rates only publish once a role and region clears our reliability gate of five verified rates. Until then the market shows as building, with bench counts indicating the verified talent pool so far.
The FRX is the equal-weighted average of median day rates for the five core roles — CRO, CFO, CMO, COO and CTO — in the United States, indexed to its base week and updated weekly.
Yes — Fractionus Markets data is free to cite and republish with attribution. Credit Fractionus Markets (FRX) and link to fractionus.com/markets.
Live fractional roles
Browse all jobs →Real open engagements from the same weekly pipeline behind the rate data above — sourced from Fractionus and partner boards, updated continuously.
