HospoPro vs a marketing manager

One hire,
or a whole team?

A marketing manager is one person on a full salary. HospoPro is a team that posts, makes your food photos, runs your ads and reports every week, from $399 a month ex-GST. Here is the honest comparison, with sources.

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The short answer

Should I hire a marketing manager for my restaurant?

For one venue, usually not yet: with 12% super, the average Seek salary works out to about $9,800 to $11,700 a month, for one person. HospoPro is $399, $999 or $2,999 a month ex-GST for a team that posts daily, makes your food photos, runs your ads and reports every Monday. A hire suits a venue group with a big budget, and that person can work alongside us.

Side by side

A salary vs a monthly plan.

Real numbers for a full-time hire in Australia, next to what a HospoPro plan includes. The sources sit under the table.

	HospoPro	A marketing manager
Cost a month	$399, $999 or $2,999 ex-GST. Ad spend extra, on your own card at cost.	About $9,800 to $11,700 with 12% super. Ad spend, tools and photos extra.
Who does it	A team: content, design, photos, ads, email and reporting.	One person. Strong at some parts, learning the rest.
Photos	Studio Shots from your phone snaps, back the same day.	Shot by them on site, or a photographer you book and pay for.
Ads and email	Meta ads on every plan. Google ads and a monthly email on Grow and Pro.	Depends on the person. Ask what they have run before.
Reporting	One page every Monday, with a plain note from a person.	Whatever you agree on. You set it up and ask for it.
Leave	A post every day, all year.	4 weeks of annual leave, up to 10 days of sick and carer’s leave, plus public holidays. Someone has to cover.
Your time	About ten minutes a week. Approve by text.	Hiring, training and a weekly catch-up. Then managing the role.
Commitment	Month to month. 28-day money back.	A job ad, interviews and notice periods. If they leave, you start again.
At your venue	We work online, from Brisbane. Signature adds a crew at your venue, by enquiry.	In the building. Can shoot the room, brief staff and run the big nights.

Salary: Seek, Marketing Manager average $105,000 to $125,000 a year, 2026, from job ads. Seek, Social Media Coordinator average $70,000 to $80,000 a year, 2026. Super: ATO, 12% super guarantee from 1 July 2025. Monthly cost here = salary plus 12% super, divided by 12. Leave: Fair Work Ombudsman, National Employment Standards. HospoPro prices are monthly and ex-GST.

Fair to the hire

When a manager
is the right call.

We would rather tell you straight. In some venues a hire is worth every dollar. Here is how to tell if yours is one.

You run a group

Three venues, a function team, events every week. That is enough work for a full-time person, and you have someone to manage them.

You need someone in the room

Launch nights, staff shoots, local partners, the chef on camera. Some work only happens in person.

You have budget for both

A manager on salary still needs content made, ads run and numbers pulled. Pair them with a plan and they spend the week on strategy.

You run one venue

The work is real, but it is often not a full-time job. A plan covers it every week for a fraction of one salary.

Already have a marketer?

Give them a team.

A good marketing manager should spend the week on the plan: the calendar, the partners, the big nights. Not on resizing a graphic at 11pm.

So we do the making. A post every day, Studio Shots, Meta ads, Google ads and email on Grow and Pro, and a report every Monday. Your manager picks the focus, approves by text and keeps the big picture.

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What it costs

Three plans. No salary.

Every plan costs less than one month of a manager’s pay. Base is $399 a month ex-GST. Grow, at $999, adds Google ads and a monthly email. Pro, at $2,999, adds a second focus, billboards and $1,000 of ad spend each month.

Base

Show up every day.

$399/MO EX-GST

1 focus · landing page + Meta ads

Daily posts, all year

Brand Kit + Studio Shots

Weekly report

MOST VENUES

Grow

See the dollars.

$999/MO EX-GST

1 focus · Meta + Google ads

Email marketing, 1 a month

Landing page included

Everything in Base

Pro

Own the neighbourhood.

$2,999/MO EX-GST

2 focuses · Meta + Google ads

$1,000 ad spend included

Digital billboards within 500m

Email marketing, 2 a month

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Questions

Before you write the job ad, read this.

Anything else, email hello@hospopro.com.au. We reply within one business day.

When you run several venues, or one big one with events, functions and a launch every month. That is enough work to fill a full-time week, and you have someone who can manage the role. For a single venue, a plan usually covers the work for a lot less.

Seek puts the average Marketing Manager salary at $105,000 to $125,000 a year in 2026. Add the 12% super guarantee and it comes to about $9,800 to $11,700 a month. That is before recruiting, software, photos and ad spend.

Yes, but it is still a salary. Seek puts a Social Media Coordinator at $70,000 to $80,000 a year in 2026, which is about $6,500 to $7,500 a month with super. Check whether the role covers ads, email and reporting, or just the feed.

Yes. They set the brand, the calendar and the big calls. We make and run the daily work: posts, Studio Shots, ads, email on Grow and Pro, and the Monday report. They approve by text and spend their week on the plan.

A full-time employee gets 4 weeks of annual leave and up to 10 days of paid sick and carer’s leave a year under the National Employment Standards. Unless someone covers, the feed goes quiet. HospoPro posts for you every day, all year.

No. Plans run month to month with a 28-day money-back guarantee. If you hire in-house later, you keep every photo, post, follower and page we made. See pricing.

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