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Salary Intelligence

Marketing Compensation

National benchmarks across seniority tiers for sales, marketing, and revenue teams in Australia and New Zealand.

Guide-anchored benchmarks from 15+ published FY25/26 ANZ salary guides. The Base row is adjusted by salaries disclosed in listings we scrape daily (a capped share of each figure, with the real listing count shown on the row) and by community submissions; listing data refreshes daily. The OTE row is a curated guide estimate and takes no listing input, because advertised pay bands are not on-target earnings. For base/variable splits, quotas and uncapped-commission rates quoted directly from ad text, see quota & comp structure.

Location

Marketing Manager

General

Low
Mid
High
Baseguide + n=1,526 listings
$91,003
$110,136
$132,576
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 1,526 disclosed listing salaries and 2 community submissions.

In the adstypically 3 days a week in officemost-named tools Google Ads, Canva, Google Analyticsfrom 8,383 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

Digital Marketing Manager

General

Low
Mid
High
Baseguide + n=757 listings
$86,758
$107,500
$131,424
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 757 disclosed listing salaries.

In the adstypically 2 days a week in officemost-named tools Google Ads, Google Analytics, Metafrom 3,505 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

Growth Marketing Manager

General

Low
Mid
High
Baseguide + n=757 listings
$96,758
$124,500
$159,924
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 757 disclosed listing salaries.

In the adstypically 2 days a week in officemost-named tools Google Ads, Google Analytics, Metafrom 3,505 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

Product Marketing Manager

General

Low
Mid
High
Baseguide + n=26 listings
$103,505
$135,767
$168,551
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 26 disclosed listing salaries.

In the adsmost-named tools HubSpot, Salesforce, Google Analyticsfrom 294 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

CRM / Lifecycle Manager

General

Low
Mid
High
Baseguide + n=757 listings
$87,758
$108,000
$131,424
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 757 disclosed listing salaries.

In the adstypically 2 days a week in officemost-named tools Google Ads, Google Analytics, Metafrom 3,505 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

Content Marketing Manager

General

Low
Mid
High
Baseguide + n=1,464 listings
$83,000
$103,502
$127,901
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 1,464 disclosed listing salaries.

In the adstypically 3 days a week in officemost-named tools Canva, TikTok, Instagramfrom 6,204 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

Brand Marketing Manager

General

Low
Mid
High
Baseguide + n=192 listings
$93,415
$116,482
$143,780
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 192 disclosed listing salaries.

In the adstypically 3 days a week in officemost-named tools Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Photoshopfrom 1,733 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

Marketing Director

General

P25
Median
P75
Baseguide + n=18 listings
$140,000
$169,092
$198,939
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 18 disclosed listing salaries.

Head of Marketing / VP Marketing

Head of / VP

P25
Median
P75
Baseguide + n=146 listings
$149,038
$184,926
$226,616
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 146 disclosed listing salaries and 1 community submissions.

In the adstypically 3 days a week in officemost-named tools Google Ads, Google Analytics, Metafrom 652 ads in the last 12 monthsComp structure

Comp Dynamics to Know

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Demand-gen commands a premium. Pipeline-owning marketers earn 15-20% more than brand-focused peers at equivalent seniority.

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AI skills are widening the gap. Marketers fluent in AI tooling are securing 10-15% higher offers than those without.

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Budget ownership matters more than title. Candidates are asking about budget authority before accepting offers.

Market Position Legend

Competitive

High demand with an above-average advertised pay band. Employers pay a premium to attract talent.

Balanced

Supply and demand roughly aligned. Market-rate offers land.

In Demand

More roles than candidates. Move fast and expect counter-offers.

Benchmark Basis

An independently calculated aggregate of aggregates: directional ranges informed by 15+ publicly published FY25/26 ANZ salary guides (including those from Hays, Robert Walters, LHH, and Paxus), which collectively surveyed hundreds of thousands of professionals. Base figures are then adjusted by salaries disclosed in 97k+ job listings collected from LinkedIn, Seek, and company career pages, and by anonymous community submissions; the listing contribution is capped so it can never exceed half of a published figure. OTE figures are guide estimates only and take no listing input, because the listing tables record advertised pay bands rather than on-target earnings. Collection began in late March 2026, so the listing window is months, not years. Published guides used as directional benchmarks only; Pointer figures are not endorsed by any listed source. Listing data refreshed daily.

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How we know — Marketing compensation

Base pay figures are a blend of published guide ranges, disclosed listing salaries at a capped weight, and community submissions, and each figure states which of those actually reached it. OTE figures are curated guide estimates and take no listing input, because an advertised pay band is not on-target earnings.

15+ published salary guides

FY25/26 ANZ compensation guides from major agencies. Each surveys hundreds to thousands of go-to-market professionals. Baseline anchor.

Live job listings

Scraped daily from LinkedIn, Seek, and company career pages, collection started 30 March 2026. Adjusts the base benchmark only, at a capped weight; the advertised band is not on-target earnings.

Community submissions

Anonymous salary submissions from sales, marketing, CS, RevOps, and partnerships professionals across Australia and New Zealand.

Pointer placement records

Closed searches executed by Pointer Strategy: what candidates actually accepted and what employers actually paid. Used editorially, to sanity-check and set the curated ranges; they are not a weighted input to the published blend.

Guardrails

  • Live aggregates render only at N ≥ 10 per cohort (function × seniority × city × employment type). Below threshold, we say so explicitly and invite contributions. Guide-anchored figures carry no N at all and are labelled as estimates rather than given a fabricated count.
  • Individual numbers are never exposed: not in public views, not in the personalised review, not in API responses.
  • Employer-level aggregates require ≥ 10 placements per employer per role before an employer can be publicly named alongside a pay band.
  • Refresh cadence: job listings refresh daily and the base aggregates recompute overnight; the curated guide ranges, including every OTE figure, change only when the guide is reviewed and re-versioned. The monthly Compensation Index publishes on the 5th of each month.

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