Occupation / job
Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers
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
Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers pays a median $41,380 against $50,020 across all occupations — $4.15 an hour of difference. At that distance the deciding variable is where you do it, not how long you have done it.
Employment as Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers stands at 2,760. That is small enough that your local market may have a dozen posts in total; mobility will matter more to your earnings than seniority does.
These sales roles suit people genuinely comfortable with rejection as a statistical input rather than a verdict, and who want pay tied to output more than to hours.
No verified preparation time is on file for Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
$10,920 separates the bottom quarter at $36,470 from the top quarter at $47,390, a ratio of 1.3x. In a band that tight, moving up inside Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers pays less than moving out of it would.
The 25th percentile is $36,470 — $17.53 an hour, and $13,550 below the $50,020 typical American job. Entry-level in this field means that number, not the midpoint, so budget against it.
Avoid it if you could not fund a slow start — in these roles the early months routinely pay very little.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 2,760 figure counts people already working as Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
At 1.3x between $36,470 and $47,390, this is a narrow distribution. $41,380 is a reliable number to plan around, which is worth something — but so is knowing that outperforming the field will not be paid for.
In cash terms the middle half of Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers runs $36,470 to $47,390 — $10,920 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $41,380.
The 75th percentile is $47,390. Reaching it from the $41,380 midpoint is $6,010 a year; reaching it from the $36,470 that the bottom quarter of Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers earn is $10,920.
From $41,380 it is $4,910 down to the bottom quarter and $6,010 up to the top. The upper half of the range is the longer one, which is the ordinary shape for work where experience compounds.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers is $19.89 an hour. The quarters sit at $17.53 and $22.78, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers. The self-employed are excluded, so $41,380 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers, the hourly figure is $41,380 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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