We recruit marketers for a living. That is why our pay data is different.
SalaryGuide is built by the specialist marketing recruiters at Search For Hire. Every number you use to set a range comes from the same market we place marketers in every week, built on 62,500+ marketing salaries.
62,500+
Marketing salaries
150+
Marketers placed
$15M+
Compensation negotiated
5 yrs
Inside marketing recruitment
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We saw the pay problem from the other side of the table.
Five years of placing marketers taught us that pay decisions go wrong in the same three ways, and that none of them show up in a survey.
Salary surveys land 12 to 18 months late. The range you defend to finance is already behind the market you are hiring in.
An offer gets turned down and nobody tells you the real reason. We hear it, because the candidate tells their recruiter instead of you.
Your strongest marketer takes a call, sees the gap, and by the time you hear about it you are writing a counter-offer, not a pay plan.
Where the numbers come from
Every benchmark you show a hiring manager or a CFO should survive the question "where did that come from?". Here is the answer.
Reported by marketers themselves
62,500+ salary submissions, tagged by role, level, and location. Real reported numbers, not a survey panel and not a scraped estimate.
Read from the live market
We read marketing job postings every day, so ranges move when the market moves instead of once a year when a report is published.
Checked against real placements
Our recruiters place marketers every week. When the data and the offers we see disagree, we go and find out why before the benchmark ships.
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.
4.8/5
Trustpilot rating
$15M+
Negotiated for marketers
150+
Marketers placed
5 yrs
Recruiting experience
Who we build for
In-house marketing leaders
Set a range you can defend to finance, and see who on your team has drifted below market before they start taking calls.
Talent and people teams
One source for marketing pay across every specialty and level, instead of three surveys that disagree with each other.
Agencies and recruiters
Price roles for clients and back the number with data they can check themselves, on the same day they ask for it.
Talk to us
We comment on marketing pay, hiring costs, and retention, and our research has run in Forbes, GB News, and Workplace Journal. For press, partnerships, or a question about the data, email us.
support@salaryguide.comSalaryGuide is run by Josh Peacock, founder of Search For Hire, and built on five years of marketing recruitment. The employer product is one flat plan with unlimited seats, so the whole hiring team works from the same numbers.
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