Parts Salespersons

Parts Salespersons pays $38,630 where the typical American job pays $50,020 — $11,390 a year short, or $5.47 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.

270,070 people do this work. An occupation this large has a published, well-known going rate — which means less scope to be underpaid and less scope to negotiate above it.

Retail sales suits people who are comfortable on their feet talking to strangers all day, and who want work that can be started without a formal qualification.

We carry no verified training length for Parts Salespersons — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

$33,110 to $49,850 — 1.5x, or $1,395 a month between the quarters. An unremarkable spread, which means the useful planning number for Parts Salespersons is the bottom of it rather than the middle.

The bottom quarter is under $33,110, $16,910 short of the $50,020 typical American job. The question worth answering before entering Parts Salespersons is how long people spend in that quarter, because the median says nothing about it.

Avoid it if you need scheduled hours; retail rosters are set late and change often.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 270,070 figure counts people already working as Parts Salespersons, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

1.5x between $33,110 and $49,850 is the ordinary shape of an occupation where experience and region both matter and neither dominates. $38,630 is a fair expectation by mid-career, not on day one.

The middle half of this field earns between $33,110 and $49,850. That is $16,740 of range, with $38,630 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $49,850. Reaching it from the $38,630 midpoint is $11,220 a year; reaching it from the $33,110 that the bottom quarter of Parts Salespersons earn is $16,740.

The upper half of the middle range — $38,630 to $49,850, or $11,220 — is far longer than the lower half at $5,520. In a shape like this an average would flatter Parts Salespersons considerably, and would describe nobody.

Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $18.57 at the midpoint for Parts Salespersons, $15.91 at the 25th percentile and $23.96 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.