No pay rise for half of creatives moving jobs at same level
26 September 2012
Only half of creative industry workers who moved to a new job at the same level received a pay rise in the last year - and 13% actually took a pay cut, finds creative industry recruiter Major Players.
Wed, 26 Sep 2012
Only half of creative industry workers who moved to a new job at the same level received a pay rise in the last year - and 13% actually took a pay cut, finds creative industry recruiter Major Players.
Major Players’ survey of 1,400 professionals in the sector found that 17% achieved a promotion or moved internally in 2011, while 29% moved companies in the last year – of which just over half (16% of the total) moved to another job at the same level of seniority.People getting promoted internally generally took a pay rise (86%), while the 54% of workers in the sector who did not take on a new role or move employer generally saw a pay freeze (51%) or a raise (47%), and only 2% saw their salary cut.
Says Jack Gratton, Major Players chief executive: “In this market, creatives know they have to fight harder and make sacrifices to gain that top-level experience and stand out from the crowd – this combined with the invention required for sophisticated digital, integrated and social media campaigns is creating an increasingly elastic job market, not just in freelance but in perm as well.”
Only half of creative industry workers who moved to a new job at the same level received a pay rise in the last year - and 13% actually took a pay cut, finds creative industry recruiter Major Players.
Major Players’ survey of 1,400 professionals in the sector found that 17% achieved a promotion or moved internally in 2011, while 29% moved companies in the last year – of which just over half (16% of the total) moved to another job at the same level of seniority.People getting promoted internally generally took a pay rise (86%), while the 54% of workers in the sector who did not take on a new role or move employer generally saw a pay freeze (51%) or a raise (47%), and only 2% saw their salary cut.
Says Jack Gratton, Major Players chief executive: “In this market, creatives know they have to fight harder and make sacrifices to gain that top-level experience and stand out from the crowd – this combined with the invention required for sophisticated digital, integrated and social media campaigns is creating an increasingly elastic job market, not just in freelance but in perm as well.”
- See Recruiter’s Sector Focus on the digital, creative and communications sectors in the May issue of the magazine for more in-depth analysis.
