Occupation / job
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail 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
$87,520 is $3,125 a month above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Differences of that size in First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers are held in place by a barrier — a licence, a residency, a clearance — and the barrier is the real subject of this page.
214,390 people are employed as First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers. At that size there is a real ladder and enough churn that experience can be sold to a competitor rather than only accumulated where you are.
Supervising sales staff suits people who can carry a target that other people’s performance determines, and coach rather than simply sell it themselves.
No verified preparation time is on file for First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales 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
$58,110 separates the bottom quarter of First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers at $63,940 from the top quarter at $122,050. At a 1.9x ratio the midpoint is a weak guide to your own first year — find out which end you would be entering at.
At $63,940, or $30.74 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $13,920 above the $50,020 the typical American job pays. Occupations with floors this high almost always have a requirement holding them there.
Avoid it if carrying a number you cannot personally close would keep you up at night.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 214,390 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
At 1.9x, the distribution for First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $63,940 to $122,050 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.
In cash terms the middle half of First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers runs $63,940 to $122,050 — $58,110 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $87,520.
Between $63,940 and $122,050 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $87,520. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $34,530; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $58,110.
The climb from $87,520 to $122,050 is $34,530, against $23,580 down to $63,940. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers is larger than the realistic downside.
Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $30.74 at the bottom quarter, $42.07 at the midpoint, $58.67 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 $87,520 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 First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers, the hourly figure is $87,520 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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