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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the PPs mostly all lawyers?[/quote]

Not me, I'm a marketing director. But [b]I only make $150K[/b].[/quote]

Seriously, you folks are so far out in space that I wonder if you can see how most of humanity lives.[/quote]

And for the PP who says a marketing director should be at $250k, that's what is wrong with this country.  No, a marketing director should not make $250k.  the fact that "marketing" is so important and brings in such a high salary is depressing.

this thread is amusing with all of the people making $150 to 200 k (and that's not necessarily HHI, just individual salary) and saying they're still not quite satisfied.  We are one incredibly greedy society.

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I don't think $250 for marketing is indicative of anything wrong at all. People good at that business know how to segment the market, can work in analytical ways to derive insight and can drive a lot of business and profitability when executing an astute strategy. It's the engine that makes ideas profitable in many cases, and the results are generally very measurable outcomes - there's no fluff: your strategy either drives more sales and higher profits or it doesn't. Compared to many other professions where "success" is in the purview of your manager, marketing is a "pure" science. Far too many people think marketing is designing the color of a cereal box. It isn't - that's almost never in the control of the marketing director (rather in the control of a brand manager or an advertising agency). Marketing managers set strategy, pricing, channel mix, positioning, contracts, and manage p&l. $250 is hardly a lot for someone literally responsible for the profitability of some business line.

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