What do language industry roles pay now that AI has changed the work?
Most language-industry pay data covers translators and production roles. This report benchmarks the part that decides whether a language business grows — what its commercial and leadership roles pay, across sales, revenue, general management and operations — segmented by role, region and seniority, and how AI is shifting the numbers.
The report
Talent Insights Report
Released as indexed pages rather than a gated PDF, so a figure can be linked to, quoted and checked against its own sample. The successor to the firm's earlier industry reporting.
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Coverage
10 roles, 6 markets
Each role is benchmarked in each market rather than once globally, because the same title pays differently in North America and the Nordics and an industry-wide average hides exactly that.
| Role / market | United Kingdom | North America | DACH | Nordics | APAC | Latin America |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales director | Sales director in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Sales director in North America: benchmark pending | Sales director in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Sales director in Nordics: benchmark pending | Sales director in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Sales director in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| VP of sales | VP of sales in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | VP of sales in North America: benchmark pending | VP of sales in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | VP of sales in Nordics: benchmark pending | VP of sales in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | VP of sales in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| Chief revenue officer | Chief revenue officer in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Chief revenue officer in North America: benchmark pending | Chief revenue officer in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Chief revenue officer in Nordics: benchmark pending | Chief revenue officer in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Chief revenue officer in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| Enterprise account executive | Enterprise account executive in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Enterprise account executive in North America: benchmark pending | Enterprise account executive in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Enterprise account executive in Nordics: benchmark pending | Enterprise account executive in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Enterprise account executive in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| Business development director | Business development director in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Business development director in North America: benchmark pending | Business development director in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Business development director in Nordics: benchmark pending | Business development director in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Business development director in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| Solutions consultant | Solutions consultant in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Solutions consultant in North America: benchmark pending | Solutions consultant in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Solutions consultant in Nordics: benchmark pending | Solutions consultant in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Solutions consultant in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| Managing director | Managing director in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Managing director in North America: benchmark pending | Managing director in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Managing director in Nordics: benchmark pending | Managing director in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Managing director in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| VP of operations | VP of operations in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | VP of operations in North America: benchmark pending | VP of operations in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | VP of operations in Nordics: benchmark pending | VP of operations in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | VP of operations in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| Vendor manager | Vendor manager in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Vendor manager in North America: benchmark pending | Vendor manager in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Vendor manager in Nordics: benchmark pending | Vendor manager in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Vendor manager in Latin America: benchmark pending |
| Director of interpreting | Director of interpreting in United Kingdom and Ireland: benchmark pending | Director of interpreting in North America: benchmark pending | Director of interpreting in DACH and continental Europe: benchmark pending | Director of interpreting in Nordics: benchmark pending | Director of interpreting in Asia Pacific: benchmark pending | Director of interpreting in Latin America: benchmark pending |
Benchmark pending. Every figure is published with its sample size and collection period, or it is not published.
Method
How the numbers will be produced
01
Every figure carries its provenance
A band is published with its source, its collection period and its sample size, or it is not published. That is what makes a number citable rather than decorative.
02
Nothing is borrowed
No range is populated from a competitor's report or from aggregate job-board data. An unsourced figure under this firm's name is the one a candidate will quote back at a client.
03
Segmented, not averaged
Benchmarks are broken out by seniority, role and market rather than collapsed into a single industry average, because an average across those three is a number that describes nobody.
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