To some people, the very idea of conducting the annual MM+M Career and Salary Survey in 2020 might seem superfluous. With more than 200,000 Americans lost to COVID-19, 30 million people unemployed, large swaths of western states on fire and the country reckoning with its legacy of systemic racism, it might seem small-minded to collect intel on salaries across the industry.
Fair enough. Still, the pandemic has shaken the industry snow globe so thoroughly that this yearâs results reflect more than just salary trends. Indeed, the data show major shifts in the business as a whole and at the companies that comprise it â and many of those changes could be here to stay.