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Clients don’t care about the work anymore, so few agency leadership teams do either (though many publicly pretend to).
Stop burning yourself out for a reward that will never come from Omnicom. Bolt for more money better benefits, and hopefully more personal time.
I was in a similar situation (with a publicis agency!) It depends on where you’re at in life/your career. I left a good creative shop for the money at a mediocre publicis agency and regretted it, because I quickly learned that making great work with good clients makes me happier than some extra cash in my bank account. In my opinion, making your portfolio as great as can be will pay off more in the long run than an immediate raise in your salary that ultimately hurts your portfolio. But again, depends on the things that matter to you right now. If you’re cool with collecting a check and coasting for a bit, go for it.
This is my read as well.
take the money and get out of Omnicom!
Go for the money…. Always. What’s good today won’t always be tomorrow (and vice versa).
Go Publicis. Once you are in for some time you can ask for a rotation. Their benefits are better than Omnicom. 20k is a respectable increment these days.
It's also my understanding Publicis benefits > Omnicom benefits if that means anything to you.
Would a title bump come with the pay bump you referenced?
If it were me I'd take the money if you felt good enough about the role. And I say this as someone who turned down a similar bump about 3 1/2 years ago because I was afraid the role sounded too similar to one I had in the past.
I'm actually glad I didn't. Like I say it reminded me of a previous job at a similar type of company that didn't go well. Who knows how it would have worked out but I don't regret declining.
Your case sounds a bit different in that you'd be going from one creative agency to another? If that were my situation I would have accepted the offer.
Either way, sounds like you have options and in these times that's your biggest win of all.
As someone who defected from Omnicom to Publicis - absolutely run tf away. Omnicom has only gotten worse and worse and WORSE since I left and I honestly feel like I saved my life jumping ship. Regardless of how each Pub agency looks, the pay and benefits are astronomically better than anything Omnicom has ever had. And even if you don’t end up liking your work at Publicis after a while, you can leave knowing you at least had a pay bump, vs staying at Omnicom for the eternal enshittification.
Rising Star
Easy decision… $20k. You do the job to make money right?
Get a counter at your current agency.
Actually for more than $15K less in India!
Get out of OMD before you wish you did when they cut you out
Rising Star
$20k wouldn’t be enough for me to make that jump. 50k maybe yes.
Out of touch with reality🤣
Move to the blah agency. All agencies have peaks and troughs. 20k is a lot.
I was just at Publicis and while I'll say the work started to be terribly boring and the politics annoying- the pay and benefits are hard to beat. I've also heard Omnicom is worse overall, so at least you'd be getting paid better!
So I shouldn’t put much stock in the “brand name” of the agency I’m at (with respect to my own perceived value in the future) or the fact that I’d probably just produce non remarkable work at the new agency?
Take the money and title bump and run — but why am I so unsure about it… 🫠
I think you should think about your family first because you always have opportunities to make money. But if you lost your family, it’s hard to get them back to your life ….
Rising Star
Hold out for 30K more
Money can not make happy !
But it buys the freedom to pursue it.
Publicis is the only company actually making money and winning most pitches