The Marketing Week Podcast: Marketing’s pay gap problem and recruitment challenges
Molly InnesExclusive data from Marketing Week’s 2025 Career & Salary Survey shows pay gaps are widening, while recruitment woes continue for many marketers.
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Progress stalls on closing marketing’s socio-economic pay gap
Charlotte RogersMarketers from working-class backgrounds are being paid 15.3% on average less than their middle- and upper-class peers, versus 15.9% in 2024.
Ethnicity pay gap: Brands urged to ‘stop paying lip service to diversity’
Charlotte RogersMarketing’s growing ethnicity pay gap is being seen as a “wake-up call” to root out bias all the way from recruitment to retention.
More with less the tough reality for over half of marketers
Josh StephensonMarketers are taking on more work with less budget and no increase in pay as the sluggish global economy continues to hurt teams, reveals our Career & Salary Survey 2025.
Marketing’s ethnicity pay gap at highest level since 2022
Charlotte RogersExclusive 2025 Career & Salary Survey data reveals an ethnicity pay gap of 13.3%, up sharply on 2024 levels.
Marketing’s fastest and slowest growing job titles revealed
Molly InnesDemand for brand consultants is up 68%, while demand for senior regional marketing managers is falling, according to exclusive data from LinkedIn.
‘Incredibly short-sighted’: What’s the impact of cutting senior marketing roles?
Molly InnesMarketing still isn’t valued or understood by some businesses, leading to deep problems from redundancy to skills gaps, say senior marketing leaders.
‘Boundless opportunity’: How one internship is changing the game for emerging talent
Charlotte RogersTurbocharging access to the creative industries is the guiding principle behind the John Doe Group’s award-winning Unlocked internship programme.
Are recruitment processes damaging marketers’ mental health?
Molly InnesThe hiring process can be brutal, with drawn out processes, ghosting and a supply and demand issue – all of which is impacting marketers’ mental health.
The Marketing Week Podcast: Does marketing have an early talent problem?
Molly InnesIn this episode, we’re tackling the industry’s early talent issue and highlighting the importance of opening up marketing.
Most marketers ‘gaining influence’ within business
Charlotte RogersDespite the challenges, over half of Career & Salary Survey respondents feel optimistic about marketing’s future within their company.
Quarter of brands cutting senior marketing leaders
Charlotte RogersSaving money on wages (58.4%) is the main reason cited for cutting and not replacing senior marketing talent.
‘Life changing on both sides’: Three marketers on the value of apprenticeships
Charlotte RogersBrands should see marketing apprenticeships as both a chance to help fresh talent break into the industry and an opportunity to turbocharge their business.
‘Local action’: How should leaders fight burnout in their teams?
Molly InnesThere is no catch-all answer to solving marketing’s burnout problem but there are steps leaders and companies can take to prioritise wellbeing that will better serve individuals and set businesses up for success in the long term.
‘Protecting the industry’: Brands urged to recognise apprenticeship value exchange
Charlotte RogersAs new data finds marketing apprenticeships are stalling, the industry is being encouraged to see such schemes as a “value in, value out process”.