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Jun. 18, 2025

Skills and Qualities of Effective Compliance Officers

  • Vincent Pitaro
    Anti-Corruption Report
The role of the CCO has evolved significantly in recent years, extending across industries. Contemporaneously, salaries have increased, though growth in compensation slowed in 2025 as compared to 2024, according to BarkerGilmore’s 2025 CCO Compensation Report. This article synthesizes relevant findings from the report and distills insights from the firm’s webinar, which included professionals from Radical Compliance and Spark Compliance Consulting, on the current market for CCOs, compensation trends, relevant skills and experience, and challenges facing dual-hatted GC-CCOs. See “To Work Effectively, CCOs Need Authority, Autonomy and Information” (Nov. 6, 2024).

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