Fractional CAIO
What you'll pay to hire a fractional Chief AI Officer - median day rates across the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, verified bench depth, and demand, updated weekly.
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Average Day Rate
$
2000
or $187.50 p/hour
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US
Demand · US
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How Much Does a Fractional CAIO Cost?
The average fractional Chief AI Officer costs $1,958/day in the US, or $245/hour. That works out to about $509,600 a year at 40 hours a week, based on 33 verified rates.
Median sits at $2,000/day. Fractionus tracks 36 verified Chief AI Officer operators on the US bench, with 2 open roles on the board right now.
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Implementation depth.
Leaders who ship working AI systems command more than strategy-only advisors.
Regulatory constraints.
AI governance in regulated industries demands rare combined expertise.
Build scope.
Owning model selection, tooling, and team capability together sits at the top of the range.
Proven scarcity.
Operators with shipped AI outcomes remain scarce, and scarcity prices the whole role above most of the C-suite.
