Occupation / job
Sales and Related Workers, All Other
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
A $48,280 median against $50,020 across all occupations puts Sales and Related Workers, All Other within $145 a month of the exact middle of the American labour market. Nothing in the headline number argues either way.
National employment is 93,180. At that scale hiring is continuous, the market rate is well established, and your leverage comes from being credibly willing to go somewhere else.
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 Sales and Related Workers, All Other. 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
The quarters sit at $36,860 and $70,650 — 1.9x, or $2,815 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.
The 25th percentile is $36,860 — $17.72 an hour, and $13,160 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.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 93,180 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
At 1.9x, the distribution for Sales and Related Workers, All Other is open enough that specialisation starts to pay. The distance from $36,860 to $70,650 is mostly what you can do that others in the same title cannot.
Put in money rather than ratios: $36,860 at the 25th percentile, $48,280 at the midpoint, $70,650 at the 75th. $33,790 separates the quarter of Sales and Related Workers, All Other at the bottom from the quarter at the top.
The 75th percentile is $70,650. Reaching it from the $48,280 midpoint is $22,370 a year; reaching it from the $36,860 that the bottom quarter of Sales and Related Workers, All Other earn is $33,790.
The upper half of the middle range — $48,280 to $70,650, or $22,370 — is far longer than the lower half at $11,420. In a shape like this an average would flatter Sales and Related Workers, All Other considerably, and would describe nobody.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $23.21 at the midpoint for Sales and Related Workers, All Other, $17.72 at the 25th percentile and $33.96 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Employers reported these wages for people already working as Sales and Related Workers, All Other. The self-employed are excluded, so $48,280 does not describe an independent doing the same work.
The hourly number on this page is $48,280 divided by a 2,080-hour year and nothing more. We hold no unpaid-hours or cost data for Sales and Related Workers, All Other, so it is arithmetic rather than an effective rate.
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