Advertising and Promotions Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Percentiles answer the question a single average cannot: where would a given Advertising and Promotions Managers offer sit among all 21,100 workers doing this job? The survey top-codes at $239,200+ and withholds unreliable cells, shown as n/p in the table.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 21,100, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. New York leads the state table with 3,570 jobs; the top three states sum to 34.8% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Rhode Island posts a location quotient of 2.74, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

BLS top-codes or suppresses part of this occupation's national ladder, so the published center is the median of $126,960 and the mean of $149,270. The state table below is the more useful negotiating document: it shows how far the same job title travels across the 40 states with published estimates.

Pay by state

New York posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $204,160, and New York the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Advertising and Promotions Managers stands number 546 by employment and number 60 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 19% more than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 13 of the 40 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $126,960, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 3,660 jobs, 17.3% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $120,130 a year, against $231,250 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $126,960 works out to $10,580 a month before taxes, $4,883 per biweekly paycheck, and $2,442 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($85,990) to the 75th ($178,570) is worth $92,580 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $139,656 would sit between the median ($126,960) and the 75th percentile ($178,570), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $85,990, is $40,970 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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