I recently came across this LS salary report from Biospace. Wanted to see what the group thinks, in terms of its accuracy. Specifically, I'm wondering at the AD/D levels. Also, should different AD/D roles within a company expect different salary bands? For instance, would a d in marketing expect a wildly different salary than a d in ops?
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Let's see if this link works for you guys:
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Thank you!
A bit of a lowball for big pharma
Have seen AD BD at LS smid cap be 180 to low 200s base
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Great find, OP. Thanks for sharing with our community!
Happy to! Figure it would be a great way to start the dialogue.
Also, I think it's a lot more impactful to leverage an entire report than to negotiate off a random glassdoor salary figure.
AD is low for base salary in the northeast (I am one)
Internal promotion, direct hire out of a university or post-doc, a big jump from another company, etc
I had interviews for a Senior Director role to lead fulfillment technology at a top pharma company.
It was 35% less than I make at Amazon in a less senior role in terms of relative reporting to the executives.
Helpful context, I also had a lot of reservations given the recent integration of Celgene. I’ve worked as a consultant at both extensively and the nature of large transactions also creates change.
In all it was less than my current comp but offered far more runway to rise in an operations and tech organization that has a lot of retirements ahead and still hasn’t fully re-established its ops structure after the diabetes carve out to AZ.
Can you upload the full report to Dropbox/3rd party hosting site?
Happy to, but admittedly I'm not the saviest with these things. Is there a 3rd party host that would allow me to do it anonymously?
Edit: I added the link they sent me in another comment. Let's see if the solution really is that simple