1. Anonymous

    13 October 2010 15:24pm

    I've been working at a small digital agency (10 employees) for one year, and will be requesting a pay increase at my one year review. I want to make sure the increase I'm asking for is warranted based on my responsibilities.

    Here's some background:

    • 1 year experience at an ecommerce outfit managing paid search, email marketing, seo copy writing, web design and social media.
    • 1 years of agency experience running 6 to 8 paid search accounts with varying total client spend between $150,000 - $200,000 / month.
    • For a few clients I also run conversion optimization tests. This includes setting up and reporting on tests, plus liasoning with a contracted designer to tweak existing landing pages, and build new ones for testing. This was added onto my list of responsibilites about 6 months ago.
    • I'm present on weekly clients calls with my boss. We split time talking about 50/50. While I err on the tactical side he speaks to the grander strategy since we also do SEO and Email in addition to PPC.
    • Helped with new business development. Brought in a new PPC client which was one of my former employers.
    • Currently not managing anyone in the office except for the contracted designer.
    • Our monthly ppc accounts receivables for just my clients ppc accounts are 13K.


    What I think I should be compensated:

    • My total compensation is $31,200 + an undetermined bonus amount at year end.
    • Going forward I should be making at least $35K + bonus. Or am I low balling myself based on everything laid out in the background?

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