2026 MarCom Society Salary Survey
What do K-12 independent school MarCom professionals earn?
How do I compare?
Pick one dimension to see the salary distribution for that peer group, with the median and middle 50% marked. Benchmarks pool the 2025 and 2026 survey waves; groups with fewer than 10 respondents are suppressed to protect anonymity.
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Four-year trends
Topline movement 2023–2026, computed on each year’s salary-answering respondents. Salary brackets are nominal dollars — multi-year comparisons embed inflation.
2026 pulse: burnout, balance & retention
New questions in the 2026 wave measure sustainability of the role — how often MarCom professionals feel burned out, how they rate work-life balance, and whether they are looking to leave.
Methodology
Source. The MarCom Society annual salary survey of marketing and communications professionals at K-12 independent schools, conducted by Brendan Schneider. Response counts after data cleaning and de-duplication:
- Salary brackets, not exact salaries. The survey collects salary in $5,000 brackets ($20–$24K through $145–$149K, then $150K+), identical across all four years. Medians and quartiles are computed on the bracket grid; the “interpolated median” uses the standard grouped-median (bracket-midpoint) method. $150K+ is top-coded, so means are not reported.
- Privacy: n ≥ 10 suppression. No figure on this page is computed from fewer than 10 respondents. Cuts below that threshold are suppressed and shown at a broader level. This page contains only pre-aggregated tables — no respondent-level data.
- Benchmark pooling. “How do I compare?” benchmarks pool the 2025 and 2026 waves ( salary responses) so smaller peer groups clear the suppression threshold. Trend figures are per-year.
- Recomputed from raw responses. All figures are computed directly from the raw survey exports after de-duplication, and may differ slightly from previously published PDF summaries. In particular, the recomputed 2025 median bracket is $85–$89K; the 2025 PDF reported $80–$84K, which cannot be reproduced from the raw export under any standard method.
- Nominal dollars. Cross-year comparisons are not inflation-adjusted.
