Occupation / job
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
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
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents pays $78,660 at the midpoint, 57% above the $50,020 national figure. Premiums that size are rationed by something; find out what before the salary does your thinking for you.
489,570 people work as Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents — large enough that the occupation is always hiring somewhere and always losing people somewhere else. Constant demand is security; it is rarely leverage.
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 Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.
Who should not do this
At 2.3x, from $56,540 to $129,950, the two halves of Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents are not really doing the same job. $6,117 a month separates them, and something other than the title explains it.
At $56,540, or $27.18 an hour, the 25th percentile sits $6,520 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 variable income keeps you up at night, or if a bad quarter would be read by you as a verdict on yourself.
You will not find a "what share make it" figure here. 489,570 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 2.3x ratio says the label covers materially different work. Somewhere between $56,540 and $129,950, employer type, sub-speciality or credential is doing the sorting that the job title is not.
In cash terms the middle half of Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents runs $56,540 to $129,950 — $73,410 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $78,660.
The 75th percentile is $129,950. Reaching it from the $78,660 midpoint is $51,290 a year; reaching it from the $56,540 that the bottom quarter of Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents earn is $73,410.
The upper half of the middle range — $78,660 to $129,950, or $51,290 — is far longer than the lower half at $22,120. In a shape like this an average would flatter Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents considerably, and would describe nobody.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents is $37.81 an hour. The quarters sit at $27.18 and $62.47, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
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 Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents for themselves is not in it, and there is no reason to assume $78,660 describes them.
Treat the per-hour figure as a conversion. It assumes a flat full-time year against $78,660 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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