# Executive titles at the Fortune 500 and the Inc 5000

Dataset behind the ProfessionLens report "No Inc 5000 company lists a sustainability chief. 53 of the Fortune 500 do".

Source: the `blitz_people` person table (LinkedIn derived, titles self reported),
joined on company domain to the public Fortune 500 2026 list and the Inc 5000 2026
list. Snapshot pulled 2026-09-15 13:13:37.

Coverage, which is the denominator for every share in these files:

| | Fortune 500 | Inc 5000 |
|---|---|---|
| Domains in list | 500 | 4,969 |
| Companies with any person rows | 483 (96.6%) | 4,469 (89.9%) |
| Total person rows | 8,554,225 | 661,586 |
| Median rows per company | 10,123 | 37 |

A Fortune 500 company is observed far more deeply than a typical Inc 5000 company,
so raw shares across the two lists are not comparable. Every cross list figure in
`title_shares_depth_matched.csv` restricts both sides to companies holding a
similar number of person rows, and prints the n on both sides.

Files:

- `coverage.csv`: per list: domains, companies with rows, share, total rows,
  median, mean, p10, p90, companies under 10 rows.
- `title_shares_raw.csv`: per title and list: companies with the title, the
  covered denominator, the share, and the number of people.
- `title_shares_depth_matched.csv`: the same, inside three row count bands, with
  the Inc 5000 over Fortune 500 ratio.
- `cro_by_industry.csv`: Inc 5000 Chief Revenue Officer share by the Inc industry
  field, whole list and inside the 500 to 5,000 rows band.
- `sustainability_diversity_holders.csv`: every company holding a Chief
  Sustainability Officer or a Chief Diversity Officer, by name, with the matched
  title text. Hand reviewed; false positives removed.

Headline figure: 0 of the 4,469 covered Inc 5000 companies list anyone with a
Chief Sustainability Officer title, against 53 of the 483 covered Fortune 500
companies, 11.0%. Secondary figure: in the 500 to 5,000 rows band, 14.4% of Inc
5000 companies (n=208) list a Chief Revenue Officer against 1.7% of Fortune 500
companies (n=117), a cell whose Fortune 500 numerator is under 5.

Counts of 1 to 4 print as `<5`. Zero prints as zero, because an absence is a
result. Exact counts are kept in the `*_exact` columns for cells that are not
suppressed by that rule.

Method, regexes and limitations: `METHOD.md`.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Cite ProfessionLens.