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Highest Paying Sales Jobs
The highest paying sales job is sales engineer, with a median salary of $124,900 a year, followed by sales representative, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific product ($104,920) and first-line supervisor of non-retail sales workers ($87,520). All 19 sales jobs below are ranked by median pay from the latest BLS wage survey (May 2025).
Highest Paying Sales Jobs, ranked
of 19 jobs match.
| # | Job | Median | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sales engineer Sales | $124,900 | $60.05 | $195,270 | Bachelor's degree | 51,790 |
| 2 | Sales representative, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific product Sales | $104,920 | $50.44 | $200,440 | Bachelor's degree | 284,800 |
| 3 | First-line supervisor of non-retail sales workers Sales | $87,520 | $42.08 | $164,070 | High school diploma | 214,390 |
| 4 | Security, commodity, and financial services sales agent Sales | $78,660 | $37.82 | $212,880 | Bachelor's degree | 489,570 |
| 5 | Real estate broker Sales | $73,220 | $35.20 | $143,300 | High school diploma | 46,100 |
| 6 | Sales representative, wholesale and manufacturing Sales | $72,080 | $34.65 | $137,550 | High school diploma | 1,238,190 |
| 7 | Sales representative of services Sales | $69,990 | $33.65 | $148,840 | High school diploma | 1,256,010 |
| 8 | Advertising sales agent Sales | $64,820 | $31.16 | $146,010 | High school diploma | 91,700 |
| 9 | Insurance sales agent Sales | $62,280 | $29.94 | $138,140 | High school diploma | 479,100 |
| 10 | Real estate agent Sales | $52,830 | $25.40 | $123,590 | High school diploma | 193,370 |
| 11 | Travel agent Sales | $50,160 | $24.11 | $76,660 | High school diploma | 55,110 |
| 12 | First-line supervisor of retail sales workers Sales | $48,520 | $23.33 | $77,080 | High school diploma | 1,121,800 |
| 13 | Counter and rental clerk Sales | $41,300 | $19.86 | $65,370 | No formal education | 400,810 |
| 14 | Demonstrator and product promoter Sales | $39,320 | $18.91 | $63,850 | No formal education | 64,520 |
| 15 | Parts salesperson Sales | $38,630 | $18.57 | $62,890 | No formal education | 270,070 |
| 16 | Gambling change person and booth cashier Sales | $36,220 | $17.41 | $60,330 | No formal education | 21,530 |
| 17 | Telemarketer Sales | $35,450 | $17.04 | $50,350 | No formal education | 58,430 |
| 18 | Retail salesperson Sales | $35,410 | $17.03 | $47,890 | No formal education | 3,897,860 |
| 19 | Cashier Sales | $32,880 | $15.81 | $40,410 | No formal education | 3,089,410 |
No job matches those filters.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (published 2026), and Employment Projections education and training assignments (2025). Salaries are yearly medians before tax for wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. The median for all US jobs is $50,980. Jobs with fewer than 20,000 workers nationally are not listed.
About the Highest Paying Jobs
Highest Paying Jobs ranks 515 US jobs by what they actually pay, using the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics wage survey (May 2025, published 2026). Filter the list by field, by the education a job needs to start, or by a minimum salary, and sort it by median pay, average pay, what the top 10% earn, hourly wage or the number of people in the job. Ready-made rankings answer the common questions: the highest paying jobs without a degree, with only a high school diploma, with an associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree, entry-level and trade jobs, the best-paid jobs in healthcare, tech, engineering and ten other fields, and the highest paying jobs in each of the 50 states and Washington DC. Every job links to its own salary page with hourly pay, the full pay range and pay by state.
How to use it
- 1 Start with the full ranking, or pick a ready-made list such as jobs without a degree, a field or your state.
- 2 Narrow it down with the field, education and minimum pay filters, or search for a job.
- 3 Sort by median salary, top 10% pay, hourly wage or most workers.
- 4 Open any job to see its pay range, hourly and monthly pay and salary in every state.
Frequently asked questions
What is the highest paying sales job?
Sales engineer pays the most, with a median salary of $124,900 a year. The top three are sales engineer ($124,900), sales representative, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific product ($104,920), first-line supervisor of non-retail sales workers ($87,520).
How many sales jobs pay over $100,000?
2 of the 19 sales jobs have a median salary of $100,000 or more a year.
Which well-paid sales job has the most openings?
Sales representative of services employs the most people among the best-paid sales jobs, with about 1,256,010 workers and a median salary of $69,990. More people in a job usually means more openings each year.
Which sales job pays the most per hour?
Sales engineer has the highest median hourly wage, $60.05 an hour. Some jobs, such as teachers, are paid by the year only and have no hourly figure.
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