Archive: July 2003

Standard/Usual Medical/dental/vision plan(s) Two-four weeks’ vacation (more time off for those in job longer) Tuition reimbursement Paid personal days & holidays Set number of paid sick days 401k/profit-sharing plan Transit Check or MetroCard (deducted from… Continued

Bonuses? For PR execs – particularly on the agency side – it’s become a mystery as to when they’ll start to return. Most likely when the economy bounces back, but even then bonuses are still… Continued

Salaries for corporate communication executives – working in eight key metro areas — tend to follow national compensation packages. With apologies to Willie Sutton, PR salaries are on the high end in New York, Los… Continued

Compared to the corporate side, salaries for PR execs on the agency side are down significantly this year. “Corporate salaries have lost ground, but not to the extent that the agency side has,” says Dennis… Continued

Communications executives working in the corporate/financial and consumer spaces showed the biggest salary gains in 2003. Although executives working in each of these areas have taken their lumps the last few years, their salaries are… Continued

Dennis Spring has been crunching salary figures for the PR industry since 1987, and has worked on executive search assignments for most of the top Fortune 500 companies and top 50 PR agencies in the… Continued

That John Buckley, the chief spokesman for AOL Time Warner’s AOL’s America Online division, is reportedly in the running to become head of the Recording Industry Association of America? An announcement is expected soon.

Nancy Carr, CBS vice president for communications, has an unusual outlet she wants to publicize. For the last year and a half Carr has been affiliated with Los Angeles-based Feral Cat Caretakers’ Coalition (feralcatcaretakers.org). Through… Continued

It’s another step in the seemingly wholesale consolidation of media, where competition takes a backseat to cooperation. New York magazine reports that ABC News has teamed up with CBS’ “Entertainment Tonight” to offer celebrities ET… Continued

Blogs, or daily Web logs, are one of the fastest-growing segments of the online universe. Now The Dallas Morning News is getting into the act. The daily just launched an editorial blog, called DMN daily.… Continued