Occupation / job
Driver/Sales 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
Driver/Sales Workers pays $38,770 where the typical American job pays $50,020 — $11,250 a year short, or $5.40 an hour. That is a liveable wage in a cheap state and a difficult one in an expensive city, and nothing about the national figure tells you which you would be in.
409,180 people work as Driver/Sales Workers — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.
This work suits people who want to be left alone to do the job and are judged on whether the load arrived on time and intact.
We carry no verified training length for Driver/Sales Workers — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
From $30,200 to $49,000 is $1,566 a month, or 1.6x bottom quarter to top. An ordinary spread like this is mostly years and geography; assume you enter near the bottom of it and that closing the gap takes a career rather than a move.
The bottom quarter of Driver/Sales Workers earns under $30,200 — $19,820 below the $50,020 national midpoint, or $14.51 an hour. A floor that low means the occupation cannot be judged on its median alone; a quarter of the people in it are somewhere else entirely.
Avoid it if the sedentary hours and the food available on the road would be a health problem for you.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 409,180 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
A 1.6x ratio is the most common shape in this data: some room to move, none of it quick. Read $38,770 as where you might be after years in Driver/Sales Workers, and $30,200 as where you would start.
In cash terms the middle half of Driver/Sales Workers runs $30,200 to $49,000 — $18,800 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $38,770.
The 75th percentile is $49,000. Reaching it from the $38,770 midpoint is $10,230 a year; reaching it from the $30,200 that the bottom quarter of Driver/Sales Workers earn is $18,800.
The climb from $38,770 to $49,000 is $10,230; the drop to $30,200 is $8,570. A little more room above the midpoint than below it is the normal shape for Driver/Sales Workers and for most paid work, and it is the reason the median is the honest summary rather than the average.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $18.63 at the midpoint for Driver/Sales Workers, $14.51 at the 25th percentile and $23.55 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $38,770 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 Driver/Sales Workers, the hourly figure is $38,770 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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