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Creative strategist hiring and pay report

346 open creative strategist roles at 311 companies as of October 26, 2026: 51% at agencies, 69% remote, 130 posted in the last 7 days. The median posted US salary is $103K.

Pay by level (US)

• Mid level · median $76K, typical $72K to $98K (35 posts)
• Senior · median $108K, typical $91K to $139K (27 posts)
• Lead and manager · median $115K, typical $110K to $132K (16 posts)
• Director and above · median $190K, typical $185K to $213K (12 posts)

Pay by channel (US)

• Performance creative · median $140K, typical $90K to $150K (13 posts)

Pay by work type and employer (US)

• Remote · median $96K, typical $75K to $110K (43 posts)
• Hybrid · median $117K, typical $100K to $176K (30 posts)
• On-site · median $98K, typical $76K to $125K (20 posts)
• At agencies · median $85K, typical $74K to $115K (51 posts)
• In-house at brands · median $108K, typical $100K to $143K (40 posts)

Open roles by channel

• Performance creative · 44 open roles (13%)
• Paid social · 13 open roles (4%)
• Creative director · 9 open roles (3%)
• Meta ads · 6 open roles (2%)
• UGC · 3 open roles (1%)

Companies hiring the most

• KittySpout · 6 open, 6 posted in 90 days
• High Scale · 4 open, 5 posted in 90 days
• Reach Digital · 4 open, 4 posted in 90 days
• Publicis Commerce · 3 open, 5 posted in 90 days
• Lysander Commerce Inc. · 3 open, 4 posted in 90 days
• Clever Digital Marketing · 3 open, 3 posted in 90 days
• DEPT® · 3 open, 3 posted in 90 days
• inBeat Agency · 2 open, 4 posted in 90 days
• Influential · 2 open, 3 posted in 90 days
• Wasserman · 2 open, 3 posted in 90 days
• 8-figure DTC brand · 2 open, 2 posted in 90 days
• AtlasBrands · 2 open, 2 posted in 90 days
• Beam · 2 open, 2 posted in 90 days
• Bettervits · 2 open, 2 posted in 90 days
• Carpe · 2 open, 2 posted in 90 days

How this is counted

Every role creativestrategist.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 creative strategist salaries pages.

Cite as: creativestrategist.jobs, “Creative strategist hiring and pay report”, data as of October 26, 2026, https://creativestrategist.jobs/report.