Occupation / job
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
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
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel pays $69,990 at the midpoint, 40% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
With 1,256,010 employed, this is one of the biggest occupations in the country. Work at this scale is always available and rarely scarce, and the wage on this page is what that combination produces.
Selling services suits people who can explain something intangible clearly enough that a buyer will commit money to it before seeing it work.
We carry no verified training length for Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
A quarter earn under $47,670, a quarter over $100,480: $4,400 a month between them at a 2.1x ratio. Planning around the midpoint of a spread this wide is planning around a number very few people in Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel actually earn.
At $47,670 — $22.91 an hour — the 25th percentile of this field sits essentially at the $50,020 all-occupation midpoint. Being in the bottom quarter of Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel still means being paid like the average American worker.
Avoid it if variable income keeps you up at night, or if a bad quarter would be read by you as a verdict on yourself.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 1,256,010 figure counts people already working as Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel, 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
A 2.1x ratio says the label covers materially different work. Somewhere between $47,670 and $100,480, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
The middle half of this field earns between $47,670 and $100,480. That is $52,810 of range, with $69,990 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
The 75th percentile is $100,480. Reaching it from the $69,990 midpoint is $30,490 a year; reaching it from the $47,670 that the bottom quarter of Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel earn is $52,810.
The climb from $69,990 to $100,480 is $30,490, against $22,320 down to $47,670. Rather more of the range sits above the midpoint than below it, so the realistic upside in Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel is larger than the realistic downside.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $33.64 at the midpoint for Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel, $22.91 at the 25th percentile and $48.30 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
What these figures are, and what they are not
This is payroll data: it comes from employers, about people they employ. Anyone doing the work of Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $69,990 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $69,990 because we have no verified record of unpaid hours or out-of-pocket costs for this work, and we would rather convert honestly than adjust invented ones.
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