Marketing pay data, built by the headhunters who negotiate it every week
SalaryGuide is the career intelligence platform built only for marketers. The salary numbers, the hiring patterns, and the offer dynamics all come from Search For Hire, the specialist marketing headhunting firm behind us.
We built the platform we wished existed
After 5 years placing marketers at companies you have heard of, we kept hearing the same 3 questions.
“Is this salary competitive?”
“Is this a good place to work?”
“How do I stand out?”
Every answer sat on our side of the table. So we moved them to yours, straight out of the placements Search For Hire makes every week.
- verified salary submissions
- 75,000+
- marketing companies indexed
- 137,000+
- marketing jobs live right now
- 0+
- inside marketing recruiting
- 5 years
Where the numbers come from
Three datasets, collected separately and joined. This is what sits behind every salary figure we publish.
Salary data
Submitted directly by marketers, not scraped from job ads. 75,000+ submissions, each carrying a role title, a company, and years of experience, verified by our team before it enters the dataset.
Company data
137,000+ marketing companies indexed with headcount, role growth, funding, web traffic, and review scores where available. 50 to 60 data points per company.
Job data
Collected daily since October 2025 from LinkedIn, Indeed, and company ATS feeds, with 0+ live right now. Roughly half of everything we collect carries a published salary range.
Research and commentary
We track what is hiring, what is paying, and what is about to. Newsrooms pick it up.
Job hugging
Our analysis of job hugging, where 75% of workers are staying put through economic volatility, was featured in Forbes as a defining trait of the 2025 to 2027 labour market.
Read the Forbes piece
Stealth taxes
Josh was quoted by GB News on the stealth tax trap, warning that workers turning down promotions to stay under a tax threshold sabotage their earnings far more than the extra tax ever would.
Read the GB News piece
Ghost jobs
We commented in Workplace Journal on employer ghosting, where 53% of applicants report being ghosted, and what a market full of roles nobody intends to fill does to candidate trust.
Read the Workplace Journal piece
Meet the founder
Josh Peacock
CEO and founderI founded Search For Hire, formerly SEO For Hire and Paid Media Jobs, to replace hope-based hiring with systems. 5 years and hundreds of placements later, we fill 95% of search marketing roles in under 28 days, backed by the industry’s only one-year guarantee.
Everything we do is built on evidence. I founded SalaryGuide, with 75,000+ verified salary submissions, so clients negotiate with real market data. I wrote Autopilot Agency, the playbook for building self-sustaining teams. And on the Agency Growth Club podcast, I’ve interviewed 150+ agency founders on how elite teams actually get built.
Whatever the size of the search, you get the same boutique, direct, evidence-first approach. That’s the promise.
Get in touch
Who to talk to, depending on what you need.
Press and partnerships
Quotes on marketing pay, hiring trends, ghost jobs and negotiation. Custom data cuts for a story, and co-branded research for publishers and platforms.
Product and account help
Anything about your account, a salary submission, or the product itself.
