The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), today announced this salary survey and other top line findings from its first-ever survey of in-house SEM job salary compensation.
A few Important points:
- One third of in-house search engine marketers are managing monthly budgets in excess of $200,000.
- Some 64% of the respondents have five years or less SEM experience.
- Less than four percent of the respondents had a vice president’s title and more than two-thirds of the VPs have from one to 10 people reporting to them. About 20% of the VPs said they earned between $100,000 to $120,000.
- Senior managers and directors comprised close to 20% of the respondents. Salary ranges for senior managers clustered in the $70,000 to $100,000 range, with more than 36% reporting an annual salary of $80,000+ to $100,000.
- Director level compensation tracked with experience: more than 18% of the directors taking the survey said they had from five to seven years experience. About a quarter of this group reported annual salaries between $100,000 and $120,000. With this comes greater responsibility: more than 44% said they managed monthly budgets in excess of $200,000.
January 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
These guys should each buy 1 good domain for themselves and could probably make more than they do at work
January 17th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Hmmm…actually, these seem to be in order. A lot of blog posts I used to see with these salaries seemed to be off a little (actually, it turns out most didn’t consider localities), but these salaries are on par. At least for my area.