Community liaison vs marketing & community relations director

The differences between community liaisons and marketing & community relations directors can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. While it typically takes 6-12 months to become a community liaison, becoming a marketing & community relations director takes usually requires 2-4 years. Additionally, a marketing & community relations director has an average salary of $147,137, which is higher than the $39,899 average annual salary of a community liaison.

The top three skills for a community liaison include patients, customer service and home health. The most important skills for a marketing & community relations director are community relations, press releases, and community outreach.

Community liaison vs marketing & community relations director overview

	Community Liaison	Marketing & Community Relations Director
Yearly salary	$39,899	$147,137
Hourly rate	$19.18	$70.74
Growth rate	12%	8%
Number of jobs	30,431	97,785
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 65%	Bachelor's Degree, 78%
Average age	43	42
Years of experience	12	4

Community liaison vs marketing & community relations director salary

Community liaisons and marketing & community relations directors have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Community Liaison	Marketing & Community Relations Director
Average salary	$39,899	$147,137
Salary range	Between $29,000 And $54,000	Between $100,000 And $215,000
Highest paying City	Washington, DC	-
Highest paying state	North Dakota	-
Best paying company	BlackRock	-
Best paying industry	Utilities	-

Differences between community liaison and marketing & community relations director education

There are a few differences between a community liaison and a marketing & community relations director in terms of educational background:

	Community Liaison	Marketing & Community Relations Director
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 65%	Bachelor's Degree, 78%
Most common major	Business	Marketing
Most common college	University of Southern California	University of Pennsylvania

Community liaison vs marketing & community relations director demographics

Here are the differences between community liaisons' and marketing & community relations directors' demographics:

	Community Liaison	Marketing & Community Relations Director
Average age	43	42
Gender ratio	Male, 29.5% Female, 70.5%	Male, 31.2% Female, 68.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 11.9% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 20.9% Asian, 7.0% White, 53.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 1.9%	Black or African American, 5.9% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 9.0% Asian, 5.1% White, 75.0% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	11%	16%

Differences between community liaison and marketing & community relations director duties and responsibilities

Community liaison example responsibilities.

Grow and manage existing relationships in assign territories with physicians, hospitals, skil nursing and rehabilitation facilities and assist livings.
Create a brochure with InDesign.
Create social media strategy: Facebook administrator, NYPL blog contributor
Provide nutrition, fitness and diabetes education to the community at large.
Construct online training courses in HTML using materials provide by instructional designers.
Design the web application screens for new systems using modeling tool like HTML.

Marketing & community relations director example responsibilities.

Manage all internal company-wide communications, including company intranet, quarterly all- company meetings broadcast to all locations and executive communications.
Conceive company offerings and strategic packages for analytics, optimization, marketing operations, campaign management and architecture service lines.
Direct strategic planning and execution for entertainment partnership platform to include B2C communications and marketing.

Community liaison vs marketing & community relations director skills

Common community liaison skills

Patients, 19%
Customer Service, 7%
Home Health, 6%
Community Outreach, 5%
Patient Referrals, 4%
Community Resources, 4%

Common marketing & community relations director skills

Community Relations, 15%
Press Releases, 10%
Community Outreach, 8%
Promotional Campaigns, 8%
Market Research, 4%
Event Planning, 4%

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