Replacing a marketer is expensive. Keeping one isn't.
We show you who's at risk and exactly what it takes to keep them.
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Guessing on pay costs you money and your best people.
You overpay to be safe and blow the budget, or underpay and watch the offer get turned down.
Your best marketer gets a recruiter call, sees the gap, and you find out when they resign.
You benchmark against stale surveys and Glassdoor ranges too wide to set a real number.
One place to set, defend, and protect every pay decision.
SalaryGuide replaces salary surveys, spreadsheets, and guesswork with real marketing pay data, for the roles you are hiring and the team you already have.
Benchmark your team
See who sits below market before they start interviewing. Fix the pay gaps that turn into resignations, not exit interviews.
Price a new hire
Set a range you can defend to finance and still win the candidate, backed by live data for that exact role and level.
Search real salaries
Look up market pay for any marketing role, filtered by seniority, location, and company type. Real reported numbers, not survey ranges.
Built by the people who place marketing talent for a living.
Through Search For Hire, we have placed 150+ marketers and negotiated $15M+ in compensation. We see what marketers actually accept, what makes them leave, and what it takes to keep them. That is the data behind every benchmark.
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$15M+
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150+
Marketers placed
5 yrs
Recruiting experience
Set every range on real marketing salaries, not survey averages
Every salary comes from a marketer who reported their pay or a live job posting. Filter by role, seniority, location, company size, and business model to get the number for the exact hire in front of you.
- Percentile breakdowns: P10, P25, median, P75, P90
- Every record tagged by source: reported or job post
- Reliability score so you know the data is deep enough
- Export to Excel for finance and stakeholder sign-off
Market salary data
847 data points$68,000 – $98,000
median $82,000
P10
$55K
P25
$68K
Median
$82K
P75
$98K
P90
$125K
Senior Growth Manager
TechCorp
Growth Marketing Lead
Fintech Co
Senior Growth Marketer
SaaS Inc
Real depth in every marketing specialty
We track pay across 86 marketing roles. Here is how many salaries sit behind the ones you hire for most.
Communications
4,053salaries
Communications Manager · PR Lead · Head of Comms
Brand marketing
2,469salaries
Brand Manager · Brand Strategist · Head of Brand
Content marketing
2,460salaries
Content Manager · Content Strategist · Head of Content
Social media
2,877salaries
Social Media Manager · Community Lead · Head of Social
Product marketing
2,302salaries
Product Marketing Manager · PMM Lead · Director of PMM
Growth marketing
2,128salaries
Growth Manager · Growth Lead · Head of Growth
Public relations
1,664salaries
PR Manager · PR Specialist · Head of PR
Paid media
1,884salaries
Paid Media Manager · PPC Specialist · Performance Lead
Marketing operations
1,436salaries
Marketing Ops Manager · MOps Lead · Head of Marketing Ops
Creative
1,957salaries
Creative Director · Art Director · Creative Lead
SEO
1,399salaries
SEO Manager · SEO Specialist · Head of SEO
Marketing analytics
1,507salaries
Marketing Analyst · Analytics Lead · Head of Analytics
58,000+ salaries across 86 marketing roles, refreshed daily
See a full benchmark report before you build one
Every search exports to a clean, shareable report your finance team and stakeholders can read in minutes. Here is a sample for a Senior Growth Marketing Manager.
Download the sample reportSenior Growth Marketing Manager
New York, NY · Full-time · Generated June 2026
Market salary range
412 data points$92,000 – $128,000
median $108,000
P10
$78K
P25
$92K
Median
$108K
P75
$128K
P90
$146K
Pay by seniority
Mid-level
$72K – $94K
Senior
$92K – $128K
Lead
$118K – $152K
Director
$148K – $196K
Company pay comparison
Median pay trend
+6.4% over 4 quartersPay distribution
11 of 13 employees benchmarked
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Needs your attention
Maya is $11,000 below market floor
Raise to $84,000 to reduce flight risk
Daniel is $4,500 below median
A raise to $82,000 brings pay to the midpoint
Find out who's underpaid before a recruiter does
Add your team and we benchmark every person against live market data. See the pay gaps that put your best people at risk, and what a fix costs against what a backfill costs.
- Pay distribution across the whole team at a glance
- Flags for anyone sitting below the market floor
- Retain versus replace cost on every at-risk person
- A short list of who to act on first
More in the hiring toolkit
When it is time to hire, the same recruiter expertise that places marketers scores your candidates and writes the role.
Score a resume or LinkedIn profile against the role, with fit, strengths, and watch-outs
Jordan Lee
Senior Growth Marketer · London
Fit assessment
Strong growth and paid background. Lighter on ABM than the role asks for.
Strengths
Scaled paid spend to $4M/yr at Series B SaaS. Built a 6-person growth team.
Watch-outs
No named ABM programs. Mostly PLG, less enterprise demand gen.
Generate a clean job description with a market pay range already built in
Job description
Senior Growth Marketing Manager
What you'll do
- Own paid and lifecycle growth across the full funnel
- Scale CAC-efficient acquisition channels to target
- Build and lead a small, senior growth team
What you'll bring
- 6+ years in growth or performance marketing
- Track record scaling B2B SaaS pipeline
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We benchmark every person against live marketing pay data and flag who's at risk before a recruiter calls.
Act on the number
Fix a pay gap, price a backfill, or build an offer you can defend to finance.
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- Unlimited salary searches across 47 marketing roles
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- At-risk flags with retain-vs-replace cost per person
- Defendable pay ranges for every new hire
- Candidate scorer and JD writer included
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Frequently asked questions
Every salary is sourced from real marketers who submitted their compensation to SalaryGuide, or extracted from live job postings. Each record is tagged by source so you can see exactly what you are benchmarking against.
Yes. Every benchmark, percentile, and seniority band is tuned to marketing functions, channels, and levels. This is not a generic HR survey with marketing bolted on. It is built for teams and agencies who hire marketers often.
Add your team with their role, location, and current pay. We benchmark each person against live market data and flag anyone sitting below the market floor, along with the cost to close the gap versus the cost to replace them.
Yes. Search salaries for a single role any time you need a number. Team benchmarking is there when you want the full picture, but every tool works on its own.
Each search shows a reliability score based on data point count. 20+ data points means high confidence. We also show the source breakdown so you can judge the mix of reported salaries versus job post data.
SalaryGuide for Employers is one flat plan at $500 per month. It includes unlimited salary searches, team benchmarking, defendable pay ranges for new hires, the candidate scorer and JD writer, exportable reports, and unlimited seats for your whole team. No add-ons, no per-seat maths, cancel anytime.
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