Have you guys been over to Glassdoor.com, a site that allows people to post their salaries anonymously? After reading a quote from the website’s founder, Robert Hohman, in the Sunday business section of the Times, I decided to check it out. Low and behold! Advertising salaries galore! Keep in mind that the site does take into account locality, so its best to consider the average of each number rather than individual entries.
Avenue A and Digitas, the two big behemoth interactive agencies, have been heavily covered. Let’s start with the Razorfish, yes? Thirty employees have entered their data into Glassdoor including Creative Directors all the way down to the nuts and bolts Information Architects. The average salary of a CD at Avenue A? Drum roll, please… $132,500. A Senior Copy Writer? From this loose and fast data, the average looks to be $95,500.
Over at Digitas, where 47 people have entered their salaries, a VP Group Creative Director is averaged out at $174,250.
DraftFCB also has some bodies talking cash. Ten people have bothered to report on the shop’s paying practices. An account executive is making somewhere around $49K.
Agencies such as JWT, Leo Burnett, BBDO, Schematic, AKQA are listed, but don’t have enough entries to determine averages. So what are you waiting for? Go over there and fill out some data. Consider it a service to your fellow brothers and sisters in the ad trenches who are currently negotiating raises and bonus structures.