Industry group overview
Fractional work across Music and Audio
Explore the industries within Music and Audio, the professionals with relevant experience, and the roles companies hire for. Group totals count each job and professional once across member industries.
11
Jobs published · past year
7
Hiring companies
$180/hr
Average benchmark · 90 days
241
Professionals with industry experience
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Music
Most popular roles
CMO · CTO · Director of Operations
126 with industry experienceMusic Streaming
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59 with industry experiencePodcast
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30 with industry experienceAudiobooks
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Role insights developing
15 with industry experienceAudio
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Role insights developing
11 with industry experience
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Public profiles with experience at companies in this industry group. Experience does not establish current availability.
- Earnest IPrincipal Engineer @ Intuit Mailchimp | Certified Scrum Master, Web ApplicationsWarner Music Group, Meredith Corporation, The Economist
Principal engineer developing web applications for small business marketing; specializes in systems architecture and integrations. Based in New York, NY.
Hire Earnest - Erwin GFractional & Interim Executive | Strategic Advisor & M&A Investor | Operations, Turnaround & GrowthMercedes-Benz AG, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, IMPAC® Integrated Control Systems, Inc.
Fractional executive for turnarounds, growth, and exits. Hands-on operator and advisor for scaling, M&A, and exit-readiness.
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Popular roles in Music and Audio
Ranked by professionals with industry experience, not hiring demand. Activity covers the past year.
| Role | Professionals | Avg. rate · 90d | Rate details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advisor general rates | 80 | $209/hr | |
| CMO general rates | 30 | $177/hr | |
| CPO general rates | 26 | $194/hr | |
| Director of Operations general rates | 24 | $200/hr | |
| CTO general rates | 23 | $205/hr | |
| Chief Growth Officer general rates | 20 | $190/hr |
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| Role | Professionals | Avg. rate · 90d | Rate details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consultant general rates | 18 | $163/hr | |
| CSO general rates | 17 | $245/hr | |
| Product Manager general rates | 17 | — | |
| CEO general rates | 14 | — | |
| Board Member general rates | 10 | — | |
| Engineering Manager general rates | 10 | — |
A dash means there is not enough observed data to publish a rate. Rates shown cover this group; links open general role benchmarks across all industries.
Companies hiring fractional talent in Music and Audio
Companies represented in public job postings over the past year.
AWAL
AWAL offers a modern approach to the traditional recording business, providing artists all the resources and expertise of a global label, while allowing them to retain ownership and control of their music.
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City Cast
Welcome to City Cast — we make smart, daily local news podcasts and newsletters in cities across the U.S. that make you a better and more curious citizen.
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Suno
Suno is building a future where anyone can make great music.
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Sweet Fish Media
High-quality video podcasts for B2B brands. On a mission to build the most valuable audiences in the world.
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How we measure this industry group
This group combines 7 industry classifications. Each job and profile is counted once within the group, even when associated with multiple member industries. Rates are calculated from the combined observations and independently meet the same publication thresholds. Group totals cannot be calculated by adding individual industry counts.
Activity window · 2025-11-11 to 2026-11-11 · refreshed hourly. Public and platform job postings and aggregated talent profiles are evaluated as separate sources. Talent aggregates include public and non-public profiles; individual profile cards only show public profiles. Rate benchmarks always use jobs published and profiles active in the last 90 days.
Industry and company size come from accepted company tags linked to matched Crustdata identities. 1,765 of 2,560 period job records have a qualifying industry classification. Unclassified records remain unknown. Industry and role groups overlap; their totals must not be added together.
Demand counts require at least 10 jobs across 5 companies. Talent counts require 10 distinct professionals active in the selected activity window. Roles are ranked separately by jobs and professionals with industry experience. Hire links can also appear with 3 relevant public profiles and authored hiring guidance. Each rate source requires at least 10 observed samples; employer-side prices also require 5 companies and no employer contributing more than 40% of samples. Percentile ranges require 20 samples. Estimated job prices are excluded. Averages are a weighted blend of our live benchmarks and are only published when an employer offer or talent asking rate independently qualifies.
Company-size comparisons use current tags for activity in the period, not historical size or funding stage. Profile rates describe professionals with industry experience, not rates charged to specific past employers. These platform observations are not a census of the fractional market.
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