Melbourne beats Sydney in pay for top marketer and sales roles

Salaries are expected to increase for Sydney’s top marketers this year, however the top pay bracket still belongs to marketers in Melbourne new research suggests.

The pay bracket for a head of marketing job in Sydney rose from $160,000-$220,000 in 2013, to $180,000-$250,000 this year, the 15th annual Robert Walters Global Salary Survey suggests.

Meanwhile Melbourne’s top marketers can expect pay between $150,000 to $260,000, a figure predicted to move between 2013 and 2014.Melbourne’s sales directors also command the highest pay in the sector, as a sales director is predicted to earn up to $280,000 this year. However the bracket is again wider than Sydney’s as the base salary for a sales director is $150,000 in Melbourne and $180,000 in Sydney, where the top salary is estimated to be $250,000, representing no change since 2013.

Andrew Hanson, a director at Robert Walters in Sydney, said New South Wales will have the highest salary increases of 2.88 per cent, while across the country salaries are expected to rise by around 2.4 per cent in 2014.