The average age of Fortune 100 C-suite executives is now 57 years-old, the same as it was in 1980.
The average age of Fortune 100 C-suite executives is now 57 years-old, the same as it was in 1980.
  • The average age of C-suite executives at Fortune 100 companies is 57, according to a new study.
  • C-suite executives had been getting younger since 1980, but that's no longer the case.
  • The new C-suite is "older, with broader industry experience and increasingly female," wrote Wharton professor Peter Cappelli.

There's a demographic shift occurring among today's top executives: they're older, and more likely to be female.

That's according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school and Madrid's IE University, published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.