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    Final Report: PPC Salary Survey 2021

    Posted by seohelper on March 19, 2021 at 1:41 pm

    Morning Y’All

    We had 792 responses that made it into our report this year. Last year was 857 responses….about a 8% decrease from last year. The first year we had a decrease. Considering what a dumpster fire 2020 was, not shocking I feel.

    Someone made a comment that they don’t think everyone realizes that this report is 100+ slides. Instead of showing results / country by highest number of responses. I went alphabetical this year for countries/regions.

    Some people have only been in paid 3 – 5 years BUT have been working for 10+ years in their career. This can skew salaries higher then you’d expect. Please take that into account across all regions as we use the years someone has been in paid advertising to build this report.

    [Salary Survey 2021 Results](https://www.takesomerisk.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/PPC-Salary-Survey-2021.pdf)

    **Some Notes**

    * The last slide for each country/region has a 5 YEAR TRENDING median salary chart. THAT IS NEW THIS YEAR
    * 20 for USA and 10 for rest of world is the bar we use to show a country/region of the world. We started using this two years ago to help make reporting easier. This includes showing a city, province, state for a country/region.
    * India made it into the deck for the first time this year. A lot of people making USD salaries too. However, Scotland, Vancouver (Canada), Amsterdam and Leeds (UK), didn’t get slides this year due to lack of responses from those cities. Seeing an uptick in people working remote this year in Australia and Europe.
    * Our top four countries were the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands. Shout out to the Netherlands for holding down their 4th place finish 2 years in a row. They are punching above their weight class
    * I’ll say it again, some people have 1-3 years experience in paid but having been working for 8-10+ years, thus they can skew salaries higher.
    * Some people include their bonus in their salaries as well I imagine. This can make their salary higher then someone who might not have. Hence why we try to use the median salary across all reports

    Thanks again everyone. Hard to image how far we have come in 6 years. I know this year has been challenging for many.

    P.S. If you see a mistake or you think something is off, let me know in the comments and I’ll look into it. Plus I’ll update the data and re-upload the deck

    Duane

    * Founder & Head of Strategy
    * [Take Some Risk Inc.](https://www.takesomerisk.com/)

    Impartial_Meat replied 2 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 27 Replies
  • 27 Replies
  • MIghtyFinePicnic

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 1:52 pm

    As always Duane, appreciate the work you do for this community.

  • Valithh

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 2:11 pm

    Great work Duane!

  • tsukihi3

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 2:26 pm

    Thanks for this and good luck to everyone with your salary talk!

  • ace884

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 2:40 pm

    What I’m getting from this is that I’m severely under-paid. Thanks, I guess lol.

  • baldbull19

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 2:53 pm

    Thanks for putting this together! As someone that is currently on the hunt for my next position, this is very useful.

    Shameless plug: For the lurking recruiters & hiring managers, if you’re looking to fill a mid-senior level position in your company send me a DM. I’m based in Atlanta but willing to relocate or work remotely.

  • raptorsfan587

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 3:57 pm

    This is awesome stuff man super helpful. Its good to know I’m making the average salary based on my experience. I just got a new job and was a little concerned about how to proceed with salary negiotation, but good to know I didn’t undersell myself!

  • Temporary-Rabbit

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 4:22 pm

    Thank you! My 6 month review is next week and this will definitely help me when I ask for a raise.

  • joeseffel

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 5:47 pm

    Thanks as always Duane, makes a huge difference to us when you do this every year!

  • IBuildBusinesses

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 5:48 pm

    Anyone know the cost of a sex change these days? Looks like I can bump my salary by 5-10% a year with a dick.

  • Taillballs

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 6:42 pm

    Thanks man.

    It’s always nice to see

  • wearsunblock

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    Interesting! Thx
    Would be interesting to see a slide with all the different metrics by country in the index. For example for:

    Hours worked
    Vacation days
    list all the different countries to see the diff

    Btw.

    21% of Europeans work 50+ hrs /wk, while
    37% of Americans work 50+ hrs /wk

    I thought it would be a lot less in EU.

    It was a bit hard for me to quickly pull main differences across a few of the slides.. for ex, male:female I could obviously see the differences once I stopped to compare back & forth between the slides. But I was curious by the deltas between the two. Not a critique.. just me trying to quickly glance thru the main points.

    Thank you again for this. Will take a look again.

  • yayamum

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 9:51 pm

    Did anyone else see how much PTO the nordics are getting and decide to relocate? That’s wild

  • xdesm0

    Guest
    March 19, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    Yearly reminder that I should get the fuck out of my country. I only beat India. I know that CoL changes but I would kill to even the min in europe or canada (sorry US I’m trying to escape a flawed democracy).

  • MBHaworth

    Guest
    March 20, 2021 at 1:01 am

    You are the gold standard of PPC. A true Adonis! Thanks Duane 😀

  • moosk

    Guest
    March 20, 2021 at 12:31 pm

    Thanks!!

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