What is the average Content marketing salary?

$166K a year on average and $162K at the median, across 258 open Content marketing postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.

What is the typical range?

The middle half of the postings offer $132K to $196K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.

Which companies advertise the highest Content marketing pay?

OpenAI ($262K), Databricks ($222K), Airbnb ($220K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).

Is a content marketing a high-paying job?

The median Content marketing posting advertises $162K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 7% below the middle of the market.

How much can you earn as a content marketing?

A tenth of the postings offer $230K a year or more; the highest open Content marketing role advertises up to $460K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.

What is the Content marketing salary per hour and per month?

The median of $162K a year is about $78 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $13,479 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $64 to $94 an hour.

Which skills pay more for Content marketing roles?

Postings that ask for Product marketing (+$18K, 31 postings), SEO (+$3K, 59 postings) advertise more than the $162K median of all Content marketing postings with pay.

Where do these figures come from?

From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.

Content marketing Salary: $166K Average, $162K Median (Nov 2026)

Content marketing salary by level

Lead roles advertise a median of $195K, 22% more than senior roles ($160K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.

Level	Median salary	Middle half	Roles
Senior	$160K	$144K–$180K	45
Lead and above	$195K	$164K–$230K	88
No level in the title	$139K	$102K–$175K	124

Content marketing salary by location

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area	$187K	89
🇺🇸California	$185K	98
🇺🇸United States	$162K	245
🇺🇸New York, NY	$152K	53

Skills that pay more for Content marketing roles

Skill	Median with it	Above the median	Postings
Product marketing	$180K	+$18K	31
SEO	$165K	+$3K	59

Top-paying companies

Name	Median salary	Roles counted
OpenAI	$262K	7
Databricks	$222K	4
Airbnb	$220K	7
Amplitude	$209K	3
Figma	$198K	3
Perplexity	$188K	3
Okta	$186K	3
Plaid	$186K	4
Fivetran	$184K	5
Cohere	$175K	4
Kinder's	$170K	3
iCapital	$166K	6
Omnicom Media	$155K	3
Harvey	$143K	8
True Anomaly	$142K	3
Contentful	$118K	3
Flexport	$112K	3
Braze	$96K	24

Highest-paying open Content marketing roles

All Content marketing jobs

Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Curation & Dataset StrategyWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$390K - $460KHybridLead and abovePythonMachine LearningAI3w
Director, Product Management (Discovery, Search, Personalization)Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$255K - $412KLead and aboveUnreal EngineRecommender systemsPRDs5mo
Content Strategy Lead, Executive ProgramsAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY$320K - $400KLead and aboveProduct marketingContent marketing2w
Education Content Marketing LeadOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$333K - $370KHybridLead and aboveVideo editingContent marketingInstructional design5w
VP, Global Social Media (Americas)SharkNinja · 🇺🇸Needham, MA, United States$285K - $345KLead and aboveContent marketingInfluencer marketingE-commerce5w
VP, User Experience and Design Innovation (Remote Eligible)Smartsheet · 🇺🇸Bellevue, WA, USA$291K - $339KLead and aboveDesign systemsVisual designWCAG2mo
Director, Technical MarketingDatabricks · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$240K - $330KLead and aboveSparkContent marketingInfluencer marketing5w
Web Strategist LeadOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$287K - $318KHybridLead and aboveInformation architectureWireframingContent marketing6w
VP of Growth ContentXero · 🇺🇸US: San Mateo (1875 South Grant Street)$229K - $315KHybridLead and aboveSEOPerformance marketingContent marketing3w
Principal Brand Content & AI Search VisibilityDatabricks · 🇺🇸San Francisco, California$223K - $307KLead and aboveLLMSEOAI5w
Product Marketing EngineerClickHouse · 🇺🇸United States$200K - $300KRemoteSQLContent marketingProject management7mo
Product Marketing EngineerClickHouse · 🇬🇧United Kingdom$200K - $300KRemoteSQLContent marketingProject management7mo
Head of Corporate MarketingSambaNova · 🇺🇸San Jose, California, United States$225K - $300KLead and aboveSEOAWSBrand design2w
Head of Content Strategy - Senior Vice President / Managing DirectoriCapital · 🇺🇸New York, New York, United States$215K - $300KLead and aboveSEOPerformance marketingContent marketing6w
Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Geospatial Platform)Anduril Industries · 🇺🇸Seattle, Washington, United States$220K - $292KSeniorGoPythonAzure9d
Senior EditorPerplexity · 🇺🇸San Francisco$210K - $290KSeniorContent marketingCopywriting4mo
Product Marketing DirectorGarner Health · 🇺🇸New York City, New York$250K - $280KLead and aboveProduct marketingContent marketingFinancial modeling6w
Director Developer Platform Marketing and GrowthGoDaddy · 🇺🇸United States$142K - $278KLead and aboveLLMAI agentsContent marketing6w
Director of MarketingShepherd · 🇺🇸San Francisco$200K - $275KLead and aboveAI agentsEvent marketingContent marketing3w
Vice President, Enterprise MarketingHello Heart · 🇺🇸Remote US$250K - $270KRemoteLead and abovePerformance marketingProduct marketingMarketing automation7w

Questions about Content marketing pay

What is the average Content marketing salary?: $166K a year on average and $162K at the median, across 258 open Content marketing postings at companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
What is the typical range?: The middle half of the postings offer $132K to $196K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
Which companies advertise the highest Content marketing pay?: OpenAI ($262K), Databricks ($222K), Airbnb ($220K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
Is a content marketing a high-paying job?: The median Content marketing posting advertises $162K a year, less than the median of all 55,899 job postings with pay on Jobs Every Hour ($174K). That is 7% below the middle of the market.
How much can you earn as a content marketing?: A tenth of the postings offer $230K a year or more; the highest open Content marketing role advertises up to $460K. Pay rises with level: see the table by level.
What is the Content marketing salary per hour and per month?: The median of $162K a year is about $78 an hour (2,080 working hours) and $13,479 a month before tax. The middle half of postings: $64 to $94 an hour.
Which skills pay more for Content marketing roles?: Postings that ask for Product marketing (+$18K, 31 postings), SEO (+$3K, 59 postings) advertise more than the $162K median of all Content marketing postings with pay.
Where do these figures come from?: From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.

Content marketing salary: $162K median