The “Official” Public Relations Salary & Bonus Report 2003 is out. The biggest salary gainers over the past year were practitioners in finance and corporate (up 12%) followed by consumer (up 10%) while all us poor technology and public affairs practitioners took a 10% percent dive – no surprise there.
On the agency side, technology jobs are down 15%, with Business-to-Business a close runner-up with a reduction of 14.5%.
Interestingly there are 15.5% less agency senior vice presidents this year… and agency billing rates are down, on average, 8.7%.
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