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title: "Door-to-Door Sales Worker, News and Street Vendor, and Related Worker"
description: "Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street."
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last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Door-to-Door Sales Worker, News and Street Vendor, and Related Worker

**Category:** Sales and Related · **SOC code:** 41-9091 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 41-9091.00

Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.

Also advertised as: Direct Sales Coach; Door-to-Door Sales Trainer; Independent Beauty Consultant; Independent Distributor; Independent Sales Associate; Independent Sales Representative; Sales Representative (Sales Rep); Street Vendor.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $41,380 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $19.89/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $32,010 to $51,470, with the middle half between $36,470 and $47,390
- **Total US employment:** 2,760
- **Typical entry education:** No formal credential
- **Preparation required:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -10.4% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 4,800 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 51/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 2,760 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $32,010 |
| 25th | $36,470 |
| 50th (median) | $41,380 |
| 75th | $47,390 |
| 90th | $51,470 |
| Mean (average) | $43,850 |

### Pay by state

The 14 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MO | $46,380 | $51,070 | Not published by BLS |
| TX | $46,040 | $47,436 | 160 |
| NJ | $44,370 | $40,779 | Not published by BLS |
| IN | $39,870 | $42,720 | 200 |
| CA | $39,520 | $35,694 | 560 |
| UT | $38,990 | $39,438 | 90 |
| CO | $38,590 | $37,447 | Not published by BLS |
| CT | $37,440 | $36,136 | Not published by BLS |
| NC | $37,370 | $39,618 | 140 |
| MI | $36,700 | $38,143 | Not published by BLS |
| OH | $36,210 | $39,030 | 60 |
| MD | $34,290 | $32,670 | Not published by BLS |
| KS | $32,970 | $36,606 | Not published by BLS |
| VA | $32,320 | $31,967 | 100 |

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 50,900 in the 2025–2035 base year to 45,600 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 5,300 jobs, or -10.4%. Declining: -10.4% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 4,800 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** No formal educational credential (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** Short-term on-the-job training.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 56.5% |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 43.5% |

## What the work involves

- Answer questions about product features and benefits.
- Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.
- Distribute product samples or literature that details products or services.
- Order or purchase supplies.
- Develop prospect lists.
- Deliver merchandise and collect payment.
- Write and record orders for merchandise or enter orders into computers.
- Persuade customers to purchase merchandise or services.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Persuasion — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Sales and Marketing — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Education and Training — importance 2.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Enterprising (E), Conventional (C), Realistic (R).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 5.52 |
| C — Conventional | 4.70 |
| R — Realistic | 3.56 |
| S — Social | 2.79 |
| A — Artistic | 2.04 |
| I — Investigative | 1.00 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 84.3 |
| ESFJ | 77.7 |
| ESTP | 68.9 |
| ENTJ | 62.6 |
| ISTJ | 61.2 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Retail Salesperson](https://nuecareer.com/careers/retail-salesperson) — median $35,410
- [Counter and Rental Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/counter-and-rental-clerk) — median $41,300
- [Demonstrator and Product Promoter](https://nuecareer.com/careers/demonstrator-and-product-promoter) — median $39,320
- [Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-wholesale-and-manufacturing) — median $72,080
- [Cashier](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cashier) — median $32,880
- [Wholesale and Retail Buyer, Except Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/wholesale-and-retail-buyer) — median $77,710
- [Telemarketer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/telemarketer) — median $35,450
- [Driver/Sales Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/driver-sales-worker) — median $38,770
- [Sales Representative of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-of-services) — median $69,990
- [Order Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/order-clerk) — median $46,170

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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