SEO Salaries, How Much Search Marketers Earn

Rand Fishkin, in another excellent example of link bait done right, just published a post guaranteed to generate links from people within the SEO industry: he outlines how much SEOs should expect to make a year. This kind of info oft searched and seldom found.

According to the post, in-house SEO practitioners can expect to make:

  • VP/Director of Search Marketing: $100,000 - $350,000+
  • Director/Manager of Organic Search: $75,000 - $150,000
  • SEO Guru: $75,000 - $200,000
  • Campaign Manager: $55,00 - $100,000
  • SEO Specialist: $40,000 - $80,000
If you work at an agency and run SEO campaigns for clients, the pay scale Rand lays out is:

  • SEO Director: $50,000 - $100,000
  • Search Marketing Consultant: $60,000 - $200,000
  • Link Builder: $35,000 - $100,000
  • Content Writer: $35,000 - $75,000
  • SEO Researcher: $30,000 - $60,000
  • Client Relations Coordinator: $35,000 - $75,00
For details and descriptions for each of these job titles, visit SEOmoz: SEO Salaries - How Much Should You Make.

And, no, I don't make nearly as much as you think I make. But I'm open to negotiations. ;)

Update:
SEMPO released its own survey of in-house SEO salaries in January 2008.

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Posted by Melanie Phung

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2
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Posted by Anonymous Paul Drago: 7:02 PM, November 08, 2006

we are but poor poor poor SEOs

Posted by Blogger Melanie Phung: 11:50 AM, December 27, 2006

I found another article citing different sources on SEO salaries at Reality SEO.

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