In 2022, CFOs at top U.S. companies headed for the doors. Twitter, Moderna, Bed Bath and Beyond, GameStop, Dollar Tree, and many other businesses saw turbulent changes in their top financial positions. According to a CFO retention and turnover study done by Datarails, this represents the continuation of a longstanding trend.

The Datarails study reveals that, from 2016 to 2021, CFOs had the lowest level of job security among all C-suite executives. This finding is based on corporate filings for 2,056 companies in the United States.

CFOs at the biggest U.S. companies lasted an average of only 3.51 years in that post, compared with:

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