The Salaries of Digital Marketers 2016: Making Digital Marketing a Highly Sought Job

The Salaries of Digital Marketers 2016: Making Digital Marketing a Highly Sought Job

The digital marketing industry is an industry that has some of the highest paying jobs and a digital marketing career can be very lucrative for you according to Mondo a digital marketing and technology staffing solutions agency who carried out the research and published an IT Salary Guide 2016 Report on what some of the salaries that people in the digital marketing industry in 2016 are.

The digital marketing industry is a very wide and diverse industry that spans and provides many different types of jobs. Some of them are basic entry level jobs while some of them are very prestigious high paying jobs with very rewarding salaries for those at the top. There are around 53 million people doing freelance work in the US alone making up 34% of the national workforce who contribute an estimated $1115 billion in revenue to the US economy alone.

Citation: The demographics of people that buy freelance services.

According to the report, a Chief Technology Officer earns the most money and has the highest paid salary. Even though it's odd that a CTO would even be on the list based on the nature of the work involved with digital marketing don't you think? I mean that's the guy at the top that sees over the people that do the actual work. Although the other jobs would be taken by IT professionals, SEO's / SEM's / SMM's and other digital marketing experts, you should find these amounts very interesting and inspiring if this is an area you're thinking of getting into.

Digital and Interactive

• Director, Digital Marketing $236,000-189,000
  
• Director, E-Commerce $234,000-184,000
  
• Director, UI/UX $133,000-159,000
  

Content Creation & Social Media

• Director, SEO/SEM $203,000-158,000
  
• Manager, SEO/SEM $130,000-126,000
  
• Digital Content Strategist $116,000-121,000
  

Operations

• Email Marketer $129,000-152,000
  
• Big Data Analyst $133,000-134,000
  
• Manager, Digital Marcom $144,000-123,000
  

Creative Services & Production

• Director, Creative $201,000-178,000
  
• Director, Art $113,000-124,000
  
• Interactive Designer $113,000-126,000
  

Those are not bad wages for what aren't particular hard jobs if you're already an expert and can do the things those titles cover. And seeing as the demand in 2016 for digital marketing professionals has soared and the Freelance and digital marketing industry is a multi billion dollar industry that is growing at a phenomenal and exponential rate where the demand for such services is very high and strong, it makes sense that these are highly sought jobs!

Especially for those in the automation industry and UI/UX designers and developers. Gianna Scorsone, Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations for Mondo says "In addition, we have seen new tech-driven marketing positions arise, such as the Chief Technology Officer and Demand Generation Analyst." And there is going to be new job titles created as our infrastructure and the Internet and peoples abilities and needs also grows.

Are you working in the Digital and Interactive, Content Creation & Social Media, Operations or Creative Services & Production industry yet?