When I see CFO/CTO with salaries of 171k, I do not know what to think. Is the term CFO/CTO overused? For me a CTO/CFO is someone in a publicly traded company, and in those scenario they usually make in the millions.
I agree. These kind of reports are the about as useless as they get. I have no idea why anyone would ever use indeed for anything. We get custom made reports with salary ranges in the bay area and LA and our numbers look nothing like these. Nothing in that report even resembles reality, but it's wayyyyy off on CTO and other jobs at that level.
Most companies are not publicly traded. Is the job/life of a CTO of a 15 person company different from one of a 15000 person company? Yes. But they are still a CTO, and it's not necessarily overuse to call them that.
I think it is, but I guess its a matter of opinion. I see someone using the CEO/CTO title of a 15 people operation as disconnected from reality, makes it seems like these people care about titles more than anything.