"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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*JimH* wrote:

Why are you so concerned about my age? Are you planning on asking me out
on a date? Oh, and why don't you use the income number I provided? Why
are you working so hard to make it sound outlandish? It wasn't, not in
the ad biz in a major market in those days.

You are correct Harry. You said you earned $90,000/year in 1976. In
todays dollars that is $205,000/year.

What is the going rate for a senior account executive in their early to
mid 30's Harry? Does $200,000/year sound a bit over the edge?

As i stated yesterday. the ad agency changed drastically, beginning in the
mid-1980s, and the full-service agency business became less profitable. I
have no idea in any detail what ad agencies pay these days, but a friend
of mine who is in his 30's and working for the DC office of a big NY
agency makes about $150,000 a year. He supervises work on a couple of
large lobbying/PR accounts.

My job title from those days has evolved, too. Today, if I were still in
the biz and working at a big agency, I'd be called either director of
client services or group account supervisor, or some such nonsense.

Another friend who was creative director of a large DC-NY-LA agency was
making about $500,000 a year until he quit two years ago to open his own
industrial film studio.


This link shows the average salary for a senior account executive with an ad
agency to be about $78,000/year with a top end of about $94,000/year.

http://tinyurl.com/ctv7m

Just to be sure I checked again yet could not find any Senior Account
Executive positions with ad agency's offering anything close to and annual
salary of $100,000. Yet you claimed to have made $205,000/year (current
USD) some 30 years ago.

My hats off to you Harry. How did you negotiate such a salary?