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Robert Sawatzky
Nov 23, 2023

Salary survey: Agency pay suffers from top-heaviness, wild divergence across APAC

Campaign asked agencies to provide their salary averages in APAC. The emerging evidence points to wide disparity across the region, but consensus on underpaying entry-level staff.

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