What is the salary like at DENTSU CREATIVE?

Great people and fun projects. Generous holiday schedule including the full week between Christmas and New Year and 4 day weekends for Memorial and Labor Day Holidays.

Stagnant pay. While I was at the company (over 7 years) there was only one round of pay increases, and no cost of living adjustments, only “spot bonuses” that didn’t amount to much and were not annualized. Dentsu is struggling financially. The slightest blip in spending by a client will derail an entire team and yet executive management will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend Cannes Lion ever year to “network” on mega-yachts and pat themselves on the back. Attrition is a huge problem; the best and brightest in all categories leave after a few years so all that’s left eventually are the complaisance who don’t want to rock the boat. They recruit young, new graduates that they can hire for lower wages (but good pay for a new grad.) but once hired there is not much room for advancement and wage increases are not consistent so after a few years the pay is no longer competitive for the experience the employee has. There is some good creative work that comes out of some of the groups, but the Experiential Events division is slow to innovate and is suffering.

For an ad agency, I hear the benefits are good. The pay is decent comparably (that I'm aware of) and there are protections for jr's like overtime. The people I work with are wonderful, and there's a lot of goodwill between coworkers. It's also remote, so there's obvious benefits there. Work where you want, not a ton of oversight beyond the output of work. Some opportunity for large client names to put in your book etc.

As is the case with other large agency holding companies, salary review process is designed to prevent upward movement. Managers have little to no power to promote, historically leadership has been a revolving door, no standardization across accounts, so lots of onboarding/process adjustment if on more than one account. If you want a raise, you leave for another agency or get hired on from another agency. Scopes often keep skeleton crew teams due to volatility in client budgets, which often results in overworking. DEI initiatives were pretty strong around 2022, it seems in 2024/5 they've gone quieter.

Great people and fun projects. Generous holiday schedule including the full week between Christmas and New Year and 4 day weekends for Memorial and Labor Day Holidays.

Stagnant pay. While I was at the company (over 7 years) there was only one round of pay increases, and no cost of living adjustments, only “spot bonuses” that didn’t amount to much and were not annualized. Dentsu is struggling financially. The slightest blip in spending by a client will derail an entire team and yet executive management will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend Cannes Lion ever year to “network” on mega-yachts and pat themselves on the back. Attrition is a huge problem; the best and brightest in all categories leave after a few years so all that’s left eventually are the complaisance who don’t want to rock the boat. They recruit young, new graduates that they can hire for lower wages (but good pay for a new grad.) but once hired there is not much room for advancement and wage increases are not consistent so after a few years the pay is no longer competitive for the experience the employee has. There is some good creative work that comes out of some of the groups, but the Experiential Events division is slow to innovate and is suffering.

Remote availability for more flexibility

Low pay compared to national average

Good experience and big projects

Lack of career progression Poor pay

Good professionals, and good for learning. Good location

the company has no carreer or salaries progression, and you work more than you get payed. No reviews of salaries or evaluations, nothing

Big clients and some nice people.

Poor pay, constant changes in management, overworked and under valued.

Great people. The work isn't too demanding.

A lot of barriers in understanding salary expectations. General managerial systems are not clear.

Good professionals, and good for learning. Good location

the company has no carreer or salaries progression, and you work more than you get payed. No reviews of salaries or evaluations, nothing

Good projects and clients. Very good at the beggining of your career

salary for the hours done.