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What copywriters make
Typical
$76,910
Junior copywriter
$44,310
Senior copywriter or creative director
$139,870
The national median is $76,910 a year and the bottom tenth are near $44,310. The survey counts Writers and Authors as one occupation, so novelists, technical writers and advertising copywriters all sit in this figure. Staff copywriters at agencies and technology companies cluster around and above the middle of it.