Occupation / job
Advertising Sales Agents
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
The $64,820 midpoint sits $7.11 an hour above the $50,020 typical American job. That is a 30% premium, and premiums are rationed: whatever rations this one is the thing standing between you and Advertising Sales Agents.
With 91,700 in the occupation, Advertising Sales Agents is a big field with a visible internal market. Big fields reward moving: the pay you can negotiate on arrival usually beats what the annual review will give you for staying.
Selling services suits people who can explain something intangible clearly enough that a buyer will commit money to it before seeing it work.
We carry no verified training length for Advertising Sales Agents — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
The gap between the bottom quarter of Advertising Sales Agents at $47,020 and the top quarter at $99,990 is $52,970 — a ratio of 2.1x. Wide enough that the headline median describes almost nobody, and treating it as your number is a planning error.
At $47,020 — $22.60 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Advertising Sales Agents still means being paid like the average American worker.
Avoid it if variable income keeps you up at night, or if a bad quarter would be read by you as a verdict on yourself.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 91,700 is a headcount of the employed, which is a numerator without a denominator — everyone who qualified and never got hired is missing from it, and we will not estimate them to complete a percentage.
What the spread tells you
From $47,020 to $99,990 at 2.1x: something inside this occupation sorts people a long way apart. Identifying what it is — sector, employer, credential — is worth more than any general advice about Advertising Sales Agents.
The middle half of this field earns between $47,020 and $99,990. That is $52,970 of range, with $64,820 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $99,990. Reaching it from the $64,820 midpoint is $35,170 a year; reaching it from the $47,020 that the bottom quarter of Advertising Sales Agents earn is $52,970.
The upper half of the middle range — $64,820 to $99,990, or $35,170 — is far longer than the lower half at $17,800. In a shape like this an average would flatter Advertising Sales Agents considerably, and would describe nobody.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $22.60 at the bottom quarter, $31.16 at the midpoint, $48.07 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $64,820 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Advertising Sales Agents, the hourly figure is $64,820 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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