Salary Range

• Advertising managers were earning an average hourly rate of $46.96 as of May 2009, or $97,670 per year, notes the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The middle 50 percent of advertising managers had salaries from $56,000 to $121,970 per year.
  
  

Types of Employment

• The bureau provides salary data for advertising managers working in certain types of employment. The largest number work in advertising, public relations and related services, earning $59.85 per hour on average in 2009, or $124,490 per year. Those employed by publishing companies producing newspapers, magazines and other periodicals, books and directories were making $92,640 per year on average. Advertising managers in radio and television broadcasting had an average salary of $91,930 per year.
  
  

High-Paying States

• The highest-paying state for advertising managers in 2009 was New York, with an average pay rate of $143,940 per year. Rounding out the top five states for high pay in this profession were New Jersey, at an average of $127,770 per year, Massachusetts at $114,440, Minnesota at $109,810 and Michigan at $108,720.
  
  

High-Paying Metro Areas

• Advertising managers in certain metropolitan areas earned even more lucrative average salaries. Those in the greater New York City area had the highest average salary in the country, at $150,280 annually. Other high-paying metro regions included the greater Newark-Union area in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, at $134,930 per year on average; the greater San Francisco area, including San Mateo and Redwood City, at $134,170; the greater Boston metro area at $124,510; and the Nassau-Suffolk region of Long Island, New York, at $123,600 per year.