No Sunday Blues has released its 2026 Talent & Salary Guide, a comprehensive snapshot of what talent costs, what candidates want, and why so many hiring processes are quietly failing.
No Sunday Blues is a female-founded recruitment agency specialising in Australia’s creative and marketing sector.
The guide covers salary benchmarks and freelance day rates across PR & Communications, Creative & Design, Social & Influencer, Marketing, Performance & Growth, Strategy, Account Service, Sales and Content Creation.
Some of the key points in the guide:
-Senior Content Creators and Lead Content Creators’ salaries that have increased significantly as brands compete for in-house talent
-AI Creative is a formal salary band for the first time
-The freelance market is booming and increasingly strategic; top operators are selective, booked out, and pricing accordingly
-Culture and flexibility, not salary, are the primary drivers of candidate movement in 2026.
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No Sunday Blues 2026 Talent and Salary Guide
Charlotte Flood, Co-Founder & Director of No Sunday Blues, says businesses are losing candidates before conversations even begin.
“Every week, we’re having conversations with clients who are making decisions based on outdated information, offering salaries that don’t reflect the market, or structuring roles in ways that are turning great candidates away before they’ve even had a conversation. 2026 is too competitive, and the candidates are too good, to get this wrong.”
No Sunday Blues was founded in 2025 by Charlotte Flood, Steph Graham and Mikhaila Warburton, three senior recruitment specialists with decades of experience across the Australian creative, marketing and communications industry.
The full guide is available to download here.
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