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Inspire, or brag? 🤔
An “inspired” humble brag. I’m ready to tackle the week now!
Congrats to those making good salaries. This thread make it seem like many people are making 200-300k. And that’s going to make a lot of other people feel bad. From a purely anecdotal thread, we have no way to determine an exact statistic such as 15% of full time staff in advertising agencies make over 200k. How can we inspire people who make less...and not make them feel like they are a minority (which I highly doubt)
Should we share ideas on what you did to increase your salary or make you more marketable? That could be helpful.
I thought long and hard about sharing figures. It’s not been an easy climb. But the one thing I learned early was that if I had a “job” with an “agency”, the one thing that mattered above all else was my ability to foster and sustain a growth mindset. To deliver billing$$. All my awards, and they are substantial, are for real, effective work that led to more work. I watched with envy as useless, meaningless but one-off clever shit took home Cannes grand pris, while my team’s truly world changing work, one that literally millions of people benefited from in their own words, was glossed over because it didn’t come packaged in perfectly kerned type. But I learned early that I much preferred delivering value over awards. (As someone I admire once said, if Facebook were to be a Cannes entry it wouldn’t win because it didn’t have a clever headline attached to it) Anyhoo, Imho, the only reason I was and am able to earn my paycheck is because I always maintained relative parity between what I made and what I delivered. If you are feeling depressed about 6 fig salaries people are sharing here, I would challenge you to think differently. It’s not very difficult if you can recast your mental model.
Female, Chicago, married, no children
36 200k
41 290k
200K at 43. 275 at 48 freelancing
36 years old.
30/208
34/336
Will be close this year with bonus from 2 companies and switching jobs so god paid out vacation plus stock dividend from a sale a few years ago. Realistically though in terms of base income should be in the next 5 years. I’m 44 got into advertising at 32
Male, NYC (worked all over)
38, 200k
44, 300k
$200K plus bonus - 41
Only in media four and a half years, though.