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title: "Highest-Paying Jobs in Sales"
description: "Every occupation in the SOC sales and related group, from sales engineer to cashier, ranked by national median wage."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-sales"
last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Highest-Paying Jobs in Sales

Every occupation in the SOC sales and related group, from sales engineer to cashier, ranked by national median wage.

21 occupations, in the ranked order the career bank computed. Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Growth figures are BLS Employment Projections and education is the BLS "typical education needed for entry".

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected growth | Typical education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Sales Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-engineer) | $124,900 | +5.5% | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Product](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-wholesale-and-manufacturing-technical-and-scientific-product) | $104,920 | +1.9% | Bachelor's |
| 3 | [First-Line Supervisor of Non-Retail Sales Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-non-retail-sales-workers) | $87,520 | 0.0% | High school |
| 4 | [Security, Commodity, and Financial Services Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-commodity-and-financial-services-sales-agent) | $78,660 | +3.3% | Bachelor's |
| 5 | [Real Estate Broker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-broker) | $73,220 | +3.3% | High school |
| 6 | [Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-wholesale-and-manufacturing) | $72,080 | +0.3% | High school |
| 7 | [Sales Representative of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-of-services) | $69,990 | +3.1% | High school |
| 8 | [Advertising Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/advertising-sales-agent) | $64,820 | -6.4% | High school |
| 9 | [Insurance Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/insurance-sales-agent) | $62,280 | +3.7% | High school |
| 10 | [Real Estate Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-agent) | $52,830 | +3.1% | High school |
| 11 | [Travel Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/travel-agent) | $50,160 | +2.2% | High school |
| 12 | [First-Line Supervisor of Retail Sales Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-retail-sales-workers) | $48,520 | -5.0% | High school |
| 13 | [Model](https://nuecareer.com/careers/model) | $48,470 | -0.5% | No formal credential |
| 14 | [Door-to-Door Sales Worker, News and Street Vendor, and Related Worker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/door-to-door-sales-worker-news-and-street-vendor-and-related-worker) | $41,380 | -10.0% | No formal credential |
| 15 | [Counter and Rental Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/counter-and-rental-clerk) | $41,300 | +3.2% | No formal credential |
| 16 | [Demonstrator and Product Promoter](https://nuecareer.com/careers/demonstrator-and-product-promoter) | $39,320 | -0.1% | No formal credential |
| 17 | [Parts Salesperson](https://nuecareer.com/careers/parts-salesperson) | $38,630 | +3.1% | No formal credential |
| 18 | [Gambling Change Person and Booth Cashier](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-change-person-and-booth-cashier) | $36,220 | -6.4% | No formal credential |
| 19 | [Telemarketer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/telemarketer) | $35,450 | -22.1% | No formal credential |
| 20 | [Retail Salesperson](https://nuecareer.com/careers/retail-salesperson) | $35,410 | -0.5% | No formal credential |
| 21 | [Cashier](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cashier) | $32,880 | -9.9% | No formal credential |

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 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).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology

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