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Salary Intelligence

Partnerships 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

Partnerships Associate / Analyst

General

P25
Median
P75
Baseguide estimate
$80,000
$95,000
$115,000
OTEguide estimate, not observed
$85,000
$105,000
$130,000
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide estimate. No listing or submission input.

OTECurated guide estimate. No listing input: advertised pay bands are not on-target earnings.

Partnerships Manager

General

P25
Median
P75
Baseguide estimate
$110,284
$122,300
$150,210
OTEguide estimate, not observed
$120,000
$140,000
$187,000
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 2 community submissions.

OTECurated guide estimate. No listing input: advertised pay bands are not on-target earnings.

Senior Partnerships Manager

General

P25
Median
P75
Baseguide estimate
$140,000
$180,000
$200,000
OTEguide estimate, not observed
$181,000
$205,000
$260,000
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide estimate. No listing or submission input.

OTECurated guide estimate. No listing input: advertised pay bands are not on-target earnings.

Director of Partnerships

General

P25
Median
P75
Baseguide estimate
$180,000
$225,000
$275,000
OTEguide estimate, not observed
$209,000
$280,000
$420,000
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide estimate. No listing or submission input.

OTECurated guide estimate. No listing input: advertised pay bands are not on-target earnings.

VP / Head of Partnerships

General

P25
Median
P75
Baseguide estimate
$220,249
$270,083
$339,850
OTEguide estimate, not observed
$290,000
$370,000
$480,000
Pool
25%
75%
100%

BaseGuide-anchored blend of published ANZ guide ranges and 1 community submissions.

OTECurated guide estimate. No listing input: advertised pay bands are not on-target earnings.

Comp Dynamics to Know

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Ecosystem roles are scarce. Few candidates have both the technical and commercial breadth needed, keeping compensation elevated.

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Variable comp structures are inconsistent. Benchmark partner-sourced pipeline attribution before accepting to understand achievable OTE.

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Titles don't translate. 'Partner Manager' can mean very different things. Focus negotiation on quota, coverage, and commission rate.

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 — Partnerships 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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