The average salary drawn by Advertising, PR and Media professionals across different levels: Report

• The pandemic has left a long-lasting and disruptive impact on the service delivery approach in media/marketing.
• Businesses will be looking for best-in-class professional services executives to apply out-of-the-box expertise to transform operating models for sustainability and profitability through digitization, smart pricing, resource optimization, and next-gen client management.

Advertising, marketing and public relations enters as one of the ‘Top 6’ industries in Randstad's, placement agency, Salary Trends Report. While it stands sixth in the junior and mid-level roles, it is a strong third in the senior level roles. There is a strong reason for this. According to Dentsu survey findings, ad spend in the APAC region will grow by 8 percent (of this, digital will comprise 54 percent of the total ad spend), and global spend is set to grow at 10.4 percent. Remote commerce with the right mix of omni-channel effectiveness has spurred digital marketing to never-before levels of agility in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is expected to continue to grow. Here's the average salary drawn by Advertising, PR and Media professionals across different levels.

In addition to being technology-adept, marketers for tomorrow and the day after must also be quick to adapt to changing consumer sentiments. Transformation in digital marketing is lightning quick, and businesses need marketers who have to be looking further ahead than any other strategists. Senior executives are looked upon to combine traditional marketing knowledge with digital strategies and hence are paid handsomely. At the senior level, industries such as Media & Entertainment, and Banking & Financial Services find a place among the top industries. This is indicative of the value and importance of seniors with niche expertise in these industries. For the same reasons, IT, Internet and e-Commerce oer competitive salaries in the senior segment. There is a clear and uniform distinction between junior, mid-level and senior professionals across industries that speak of a motivated and aspirational path to growth.

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Bengaluru ranks #1 among the Tier-1 cities in salary pay-scales across the junior and mid-levels in job level hierarchies, but plays second to Mumbai when it comes to senior levels. On an average, junior executives in Bengaluru draw 11.6 percent higher than the second Tier-1 city, Hyderabad, and an average of 17.8 percent higher than all its Tier-1 counterparts.

At the senior job levels, Mumbai stands at the top of the table with its salaries 3.4 percent higher than Bengaluru, and an average of 8.8 percent higher than the Tier1 cities in general.