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How does pay work for Creative Directors

Information about CD Pay

Updated over 2 months ago

There are 4 titles for creative directors, depending on their score and lifetime with Designity. For each title, there are 2 pay levels:

Pilot Creative Director ( No score yet)
Pay level 1 - 100% Capacity = $85,000 / year (1% capacity per day: $2.33)

Verified Creative Director
71-75: Pay level 1 - 100% Capacity = $85,000 / year (1% capacity per day: $2.33)
76-80: Pay level 2 - 100% Capacity = $87,500 / year (1% capacity per day: $2.40)

Lead Creative Director
81-85: Pay level 3 - 100% Capacity = $90,000 / year (1% capacity per day: $2.47)
86-90: Pay level 4 - 100% Capacity = $92,0500 / year (1% capacity per day: $2.53)

Senior Creative Director
91-95: Pay level 5 - 100% Capacity = $95,000 / year (1% capacity per day: $2.60)
96-100: Pay level 6 - 100% Capacity = $100,000 / year (1% capacity per day: $2.74)

Client Retention Bonus
We reward you for keeping your clients around! For each client, we will pay a bonus after the 12th month anniversary of their plan:

For Essentials Plans: $1,200 after each 12 month anniversary
For Plus Plans: $1,700 after each 12 month anniversary
For Premium Plans: $2,400 after each 12 month anniversary


Note: This is set to change in 2025 to a set $2,000 per client regardless of their plan, paid out after 20 20-month anniversary. This will only apply for clients that kick off after the new pay system has been released. We will send announcements before this takes effect.

Merit Bonus
After working for 2 years at Designity, you quality for an additional bonus of $600 per year. For each additional year of lifetime, this bonus will increase by $300 per year (i.e. after 5 years: $1500).

Other Sources
In addition to earning through managing client plans or acting as creative through adding capacity, you can earn money through:

  • Winning our best-of-voting competition

  • Managing one-off add-ons for clients (requires approval)

  • Leading an Innovation lab for our creative community (requires approval)

  • Creating content for our Designity Social Media channels

  • Vetting portfolios and hiring creatives (requires approval)

  • Acting as a mentor for other Creative Directors (requires approval)

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