Advertising and Promotions Managers

At $133,660 — $83,640 a year clear of the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint — Advertising and Promotions Managers sits at the top of what BLS publishes. Read the gate before the figure: at this level there is always one, and it is usually measured in years.

With 21,470 employed as Advertising and Promotions Managers, most metros have a working market: several employers, visible turnover, and the ability to change jobs without moving house.

Marketing, advertising and sales management suits people who can commit a budget to an outcome they will only ever partly be able to attribute, and argue for it again next year.

How long it takes to become one of the 21,470 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

The gap between the bottom quarter of Advertising and Promotions Managers at $91,370 and the top quarter at $201,050 is $109,680 — a ratio of 2.2x. Wide enough that the headline median describes almost nobody, and treating it as your number is a planning error.

Even at the 25th percentile Advertising and Promotions Managers pays $91,370, $41,350 clear of the $50,020 national midpoint. Almost the entire distribution sits above the typical American wage, which is rare and worth weighing against the entry cost.

Avoid it if you need your contribution to be provable; attribution in this function is contested every budget cycle.

You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 21,470 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.

From $91,370 to $201,050 at 2.2x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Advertising and Promotions Managers.

In cash terms the middle half of Advertising and Promotions Managers runs $91,370 to $201,050 — $109,680 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $133,660.

Between $91,370 and $201,050 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $133,660. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $67,390; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $109,680.

The distance from the midpoint up to $201,050 is $67,390 — well over the $42,290 down to $91,370. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Advertising and Promotions Managers earns, and half the field is in that upper half.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Advertising and Promotions Managers is $64.25 an hour. The quarters sit at $43.92 and $96.65, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.