Anonymous
Post 09/08/2016 18:56     Subject: Re:Current Market salary range for Government Affairs professionals (in house)
The range is huge. I have been in the field for 20 plus years and my peers in-house make anything from 180k to 300k (plus bonus and stock options). For a newby my guess is that $80k is about right.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2016 18:46     Subject: Current Market salary range for Government Affairs professionals (in house)
Anonymous wrote:I had a govt affairs job at huge US firm; no govt experience at the time but PhD and some international experience. I initially worked at HQ elsewhere but got moved to DC where my salary was adjusted for COL. I left 12 years ago making around $165k if I remember correctly. The company was not known for high pay; the real money was in the bonuses / options / pensions / etc.

So I'd be stunned if someone with some relevant Hill or exec branch experience isn't making at least 6 figures doing government affairs at any kind of decent sized corporation.


165k when you left, what did you start at?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2016 18:28     Subject: Current Market salary range for Government Affairs professionals (in house)
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:An analyst with 0-5 years of experience? $40,000 range. The big money comes in when you become one of the bigger heavy hitting lobbyists on the Hill.


i know for a fact it isn't that low because i know 'analysts' at one of the firms mentioned in the first post and that's not what they get paid.

it might be 40k for a smaller company but not a blue chip publically traded f100 company


Okay. How much is it?


60k base + 5-10% bonus, limited prior hill experience, 0-2 experience.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2016 18:25     Subject: Current Market salary range for Government Affairs professionals (in house)
I had a govt affairs job at huge US firm; no govt experience at the time but PhD and some international experience. I initially worked at HQ elsewhere but got moved to DC where my salary was adjusted for COL. I left 12 years ago making around $165k if I remember correctly. The company was not known for high pay; the real money was in the bonuses / options / pensions / etc.

So I'd be stunned if someone with some relevant Hill or exec branch experience isn't making at least 6 figures doing government affairs at any kind of decent sized corporation.