Can anyone share insights on salary bands within IPG Health? When I started 2 years ago as an ACD writer I was told the salary band went to $175k max. I got promoted to VP and got a pay raise, but just saw a VP ACD job posting at FCB Health and the max is $220k. Am I being grossly underpaid?

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From what I hear, IPG is currently throwing out huge numbers to get creatives in their offices before the merger. 220 for VP ACD is considered high.

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My guess is hiring these higher level positions, laying off mid-level creative, and replacing with jr staff at a much lower starting rate than their predecessors were hired at.

ACD and VP ACD are also different things even though they’re the same thing.

The ACD band could go to $175 but then you have the special VP ACD zone.

Also always easier to get that bag when you’re new to a place vs internal raises.

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If you got promoted as a staffer, they’ll want to keep you under the band to accommodate for the 2-3% raises and not kick you into the CD title salary band.

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I was an SVP at FCB Health NYC, left 3 years ago at $215k base and $15k bonus. For what it's worth when I was there in 2022, they said VP CD salary cap is at $190k.

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An IPG in-house recruiter I know pretty well explained to me that they’ll never hire at the top of that band. The best you can hope for is the middle.

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Yes. My ACD at Cure is getting 230

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220 and 230 Is definitely VP CD territory.

If there’s a VP ACD making that’s it’s probably because they’ve been in the role for many years and have received 3% yearly increases which is standard for IPG.

Think about it… 3% a year at 220 is around $6,500 increase a year.

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It seems high but that’s the top of the range in the VP ACD job posting 🤷

Assuming you're not currently at FCB? That probably accounts for the difference.

I didn’t even realize we are hiring.

IPG Health is definitely hiring. Can anyone explain to me why, when Omnicom acquisition of us should on paper mean tremendous amounts of layoffs?

I would start looking. IPG is going to have massive layoffs once the merger occurs.

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