Media buyer jobsHiring and pay report
Media buyer hiring and pay report
787 open media buyer roles at 505 companies as of October 28, 2026: 88% at agencies, 34% remote, 393 posted in the last 7 days. The median posted US salary is $90K.
Pay by level (US)
- Junior and associate · median $56K, typical $45K to $64K (55 posts)
- Mid level · median $75K, typical $63K to $83K (61 posts)
- Senior · median $92K, typical $80K to $103K (47 posts)
- Lead and manager · median $98K, typical $88K to $113K (159 posts)
- Director and above · median $155K, typical $141K to $175K (47 posts)
Pay by channel (US)
- Paid search and PPC · median $91K, typical $70K to $106K (72 posts)
- Paid social · median $88K, typical $72K to $103K (83 posts)
- Media planning · median $75K, typical $55K to $99K (40 posts)
- Performance marketing · median $110K, typical $90K to $150K (20 posts)
- Programmatic · median $93K, typical $78K to $118K (57 posts)
Pay by work type and employer (US)
- Remote · median $88K, typical $75K to $108K (133 posts)
- Hybrid · median $93K, typical $70K to $119K (157 posts)
- On-site · median $91K, typical $75K to $115K (79 posts)
- At agencies · median $90K, typical $72K to $108K (338 posts)
- In-house at brands · median $100K, typical $80K to $130K (31 posts)
Open roles by channel
- Paid social · 169 open roles (21%)
- Paid search and PPC · 125 open roles (16%)
- Performance marketing · 122 open roles (16%)
- Programmatic · 87 open roles (11%)
- Media planning · 73 open roles (9%)
- Meta and Facebook ads · 53 open roles (7%)
- Google Ads · 33 open roles (4%)
- Amazon and retail media · 20 open roles (3%)
- TikTok ads · 7 open roles (1%)
Companies hiring the most
- Adelphi Group · 32 open, 34 posted in 90 days
- Publicis Media · 27 open, 28 posted in 90 days
- Directive · 27 open, 27 posted in 90 days
- WPP · 24 open, 25 posted in 90 days
- DEPT® · 22 open, 22 posted in 90 days
- Power Digital Marketing · 21 open, 21 posted in 90 days
- Publicis Commerce · 17 open, 17 posted in 90 days
- Clients Blackbox, Inc. · 14 open, 20 posted in 90 days
- Omnicom Media · 13 open, 14 posted in 90 days
- Dentsu · 12 open, 13 posted in 90 days
- PHD Media · 12 open, 12 posted in 90 days
- Starcom · 12 open, 12 posted in 90 days
- Ampush · 10 open, 10 posted in 90 days
- Razorfish · 9 open, 9 posted in 90 days
- Brkfst · 8 open, 8 posted in 90 days
How this is counted
Every role mediabuyer.jobs lists: one row per company and role, recruiters and staffing firms left out. Pay is what each post states, read into a yearly figure; contract, hourly and pay tied to ad spend are left out of the medians, and a median shows from 10 posts. Updated hourly. See every posted salary on the media buyer salaries pages.
Cite as: mediabuyer.jobs, “Media buyer hiring and pay report”, data as of October 28, 2026, https://mediabuyer.jobs/report.