DESIGN
Moderate Experience
Significant Experience
Some Experience
Graphic Designer
DUTIES:Design or create graphics to meet clients’ needs for letterheads, logos, websites, or other media.
Median Pay Range:
$46,000 to $72,000 per year
Multimedia Artist/Animator
DUTIES:Create graphics and animation for electronic media, such as internet, film, television, and video games.
Median Pay Range:
$55,000 to $77,000 per year
Art Manager
DUTIES:Plan, direct, coordinate, and manage all activities in a company’s art department.
Median Pay Range:
$75,000 to $108,000 per year
Presentation Designer
DUTIES:Design and create presentation materials on a computer or on paper.
Median Pay Range:
$66,000 to $87,000 per year
Concept Artist
DUTIES: Create concrete visualizations of ideas for buildings, parks, movies, cartoons, video games, etc.
Median Pay Range:
$53,000 to $87,000 per year
Art Director
DUTIES: Come up with design ideas and approaches and excute them in art or layout design.
Median Pay Range:
$66,000 to $101,000 per year
Web or Mobile Media Designer
DUTIES:Design, create, and modify websites or mobile or tablet apps.
Median Pay Range:
$50,000 to $74,000 per year
Independent/Freelance Artist
DUTIES:Take on various creative projects, designing artwork/graphics to best fit your client’s needs.
Median Pay Range:
$49,000 to $80,000 per year
Creative Technologist
DUTIES:Help customers decide the best technology to communicate their message. Oversee the design and technical development of media projects.
Median Pay Range:
$90,000 to $141,000 per year
Commercial Artist
DUTIES: Create drawings, lettering, and backgrounds for advertising stills or overlays for animation.
Median Pay Range:
$62,000 to $138,000 per year
Product Designer
DUTIES: Design and develop the majority of the consumer products that people use in their everyday lives.
Median Pay Range:
$81,000 to $127,000 per year
Design Director
DUTIES: Oversee and direct design of print and digital media.
Median Pay Range:
$114,000 to $165,000 per year
BUSINESS
Moderate Experience
Administrative Assistant
DUTIES:
Support executives and managers in media and advertising firms. Screen calls and take messages, coordinate travel arrangements, compile and maintain news clips and media lists, do Internet research, organize office and maintain files, draft letters and newsletters, and schedule appointments
Median Pay Range:
$39,000 to $55,000 per year or$15.50 to $22 per hour
Significant Experience
Ad Account Executive
DUTIES:
Sell advertising space or time in pubications, or on signs, TV, radio, or the Internet. Develop and maintain client relationships and close sales. Do product demonstrations in person, or by phone or webinar.
Median Pay Range:
$53,000 to $89,000 per year
Some Experience
Director of Sales
DUTIES:
Lead, manage, and motivate a team of sales representatives, setting expectations and goals for the team to meet and a general vision to follow.
Median Pay Range:
$90,000 to $148,000 per year
Bookkeeper
DUTIES:
Take care of accounting work for a media, advertising or public relations firm. Do the day to day work on accounts payable and receivable, prepare invoices and pay bills. Bookeepers often work part-time and have flexible hours.
Median Pay Range:
$42,000 to $60,000 per year or$17 to $25 per hour
Accountant
DUTIES:
Create sales and cash flow reports, administer payroll, keep balance sheets, carry out billing activities, manage budgets, keep inventory, etc.
Median Pay Range:
$51,000 to $71,000 per year
VP Market Research
DUTIES:
Oversee media reseach. Communicate with clients to understand their needs. Develop methods, design and direct research and make reccommendations based on findings. Research could be about market activity, competitors’ performance, customer preferences, or future trends that could affect clients’ business.
Median Pay Range:
$100,000 per year and higher
Financial Analyst
DUTIES:
Study marketplace trends, demographics and microeconomic factors to give advice and analysis that helps your company make smart investments.
Median Pay Range:
$60,000 to $81,000 per year
Media Market Research Analyst
DUTIES:
Research market conditions or collect information to get a sense of the sales potential of a product or service. Do research on competing firms’ prices, and sales and marketing methods.
Median Pay Range:
$53,000 to $76,000 per year
VP Sales and Marketing
DUTIES:
Manage ad account executives by setting territories and sales quotas. Build new business opportunities and generate revenue for newspapers, television programs, and/or websites. Make sure that clients’ needs are being met
Median Pay Range:
$100,000 per year and higher
Inside Sales Representative
DUTIES:
Manage daily cash flow, help improve banking services, create and present departmental strategy, reports, and data analysis to management.
Median Pay Range:
$44,000 to $61,000 per year
Digital Marketing Director
DUTIES:
Build relationshipos with prospects, clients and partners in online marketing and media areas.
Median Pay Range:
$97,000 to $154,000 per year
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/President
DUTIES:
Takes charge of an organization and makes the majority of executive decisions. Leads, guides, oversees job performances, formulates strategic direction for their company.
Median Pay Range:
$160,000 to $200,000+ per year
MANUFACTURING
Moderate Experience
Maintenance Technician
DUTIES:
General upkeep of various equipment/facilities including troubleshooting and repairs.
Median Pay Range:
$45,000 to $70,000 per year
Significant Experience
3D Artist/Modeler
DUTIES:
Design and create three-dimensional objects/characters for prototyping/various graphic media
Median Pay Range:
$54,000 to $88,000 per year
Some Experience
Production Supervisor
DUTIES:
Schedule, coordinate, and execute daily tasks in line with the production schedule, including rate checks, sanitation checks, scrap reporting, inventory management, and mentoring.
Median Pay Range:
$60,000 to $81,000 per year
Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) Operator
DUTIES:
Work with various shop machines to fabricate parts for assembly, usually from various metal compounds. Monitor machinery, and inspect each created part to ensure quality.
Median Pay Range:
$39,000 to $62,000 per year
Production Planner
DUTIES:
Make sure that each day’s scheduled run of items occur without incident. Order materials, ensure product quality, and make sure the manufacturing area has adequate lighting and envrionmental conditions.
Median Pay Range:
$58,000 to $79,000 per year
Director of Operations
DUTIES:
Oversee your organization’s employees and production of goods and/or services, including purchasing, warehousing, and manufacturing to make sure products meet expectations.
Median Pay Range:
$91,000 to $150,000
Electrical Technician
DUTIES:
Apply electrical knowledge to design, build, repair, and adjust electrical components, circuitry and controls
Median Pay Range:
$52,000 to $82,000 per year or $21 to $31 per hour
Industrial Designer
DUTIES:
Design products//develop concepts for factory-made products such as home appliances, furniture, automobiles, electronics, and toys.
Median Pay Range:
$58,000 to $89,000 per year
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
DUTIES:
Handle the monitoring and maintenance of technical aspects of the manufacturing process, gathering metrics to analyze efficiency and process flow.
Median Pay Range:
$91,000 to $113,000 per year
Quality Assurance (QA) / Quality Control (QC) Inspector
DUTIES:
Inspect, test, and sample materials, parts, or products for defects and any deviations from specifications to ensure quality is being met.
Median Pay Range:
$53,000 to $87,000 per year
Manufacturing Engineer
DUTIES:
Schedule, coordinate, and execute daily tasks in line with the production schedule, including rate checks, sanitation checks, scrap reporting, inventory management, and mentoring.
Median Pay Range:
$69,000 to $90,000 per year
VP Manufacturing
DUTIES:
Oversee operations and ensure that proper steps are taken to make sure that the manufacturing process is running smoothly and safely. Meet sales targets, provide input, and help create growth at your company.
Median Pay Range:
$145,000 to $201,000 per year