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title: "Luxury Real Estate Agent"
description: "A residential agent who represents buyers and sellers of high-value homes, often for wealthy, celebrity or international clients."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/luxury-real-estate-agent"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Luxury Real Estate Agent

**Category:** Sales and Related · **SOC code:** 41-9022 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 41-9022.00

A residential agent who represents buyers and sellers of high-value homes, often for wealthy, celebrity or international clients.

Also advertised as: Luxury Home Specialist; Luxury Realtor; High-End Residential Agent; Estate Agent (Luxury).

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $52,830 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $25.40/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $32,970 to $123,590, with the middle half between $40,040 and $82,020
- **Total US employment:** 193,370
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +1.7% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 32,600 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 41/100 — 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 193,370 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $32,970 |
| 25th | $40,040 |
| 50th (median) | $52,830 |
| 75th | $82,020 |
| 90th | $123,590 |
| Mean (average) | $69,510 |

### Pay by state

The 15 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $123,770 | $112,620 | 590 |
| NY | $102,990 | $95,431 | 8,660 |
| NJ | $99,990 | $91,898 | Not published by BLS |
| AK | $89,170 | $87,115 | 170 |
| NV | $79,990 | $80,007 | 1,490 |
| WA | $79,130 | $73,944 | 5,150 |
| MT | $79,100 | $83,575 | 370 |
| NM | $76,170 | $82,603 | 550 |
| ND | $73,920 | $83,094 | Not published by BLS |
| SD | $65,170 | $73,567 | 640 |
| VA | $63,980 | $63,281 | 5,750 |
| CO | $63,670 | $61,784 | 6,120 |
| OR | $61,610 | $59,607 | 1,940 |
| AL | $60,890 | $68,552 | 1,580 |
| RI | $60,310 | $58,966 | Not published by BLS |

33 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 48 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/luxury-real-estate-agent/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/luxury-real-estate-agent.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 427,000 in the 2025–2035 base year to 434,500 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 7,400 jobs, or +1.7%. Slower than average: 1.7% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 32,600 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:** High school diploma or equivalent (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:** Moderate-term on-the-job training.

## What the work involves

- Price high-value homes using limited comparable sales
- Plan staging, photography and private marketing campaigns
- Screen and qualify prospective buyers
- Arrange private showings and broker previews
- Negotiate complex purchase terms and contingencies
- Coordinate with attorneys, wealth managers and inspectors
- Build a referral network and personal brand

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 3.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.0 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.

- Negotiation — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.1 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 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Comprehension — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Clarity — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 3.3 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), Social (S).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 6.46 |
| C — Conventional | 4.89 |
| S — Social | 4.22 |
| A — Artistic | 2.92 |
| R — Realistic | 2.12 |
| I — Investigative | 1.47 |

### 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) |
| --- | --- |
| ESFJ | 82.7 |
| ESTJ | 73.8 |
| ENFJ | 73.7 |
| ESFP | 66.0 |
| ENTJ | 64.9 |

Best-fitting types: ESFJ.

## Related occupations

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

- [Real Estate Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-agent) — median $52,830
- [Real Estate Broker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/real-estate-broker) — median $73,220
- [Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/property-real-estate-and-community-association-manager) — median $69,990
- [Appraiser and Assessor of Real Estate](https://nuecareer.com/careers/appraiser-and-assessor-of-real-estate) — median $67,960
- [Security, Commodity, and Financial Services Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/security-commodity-and-financial-services-sales-agent) — median $78,660
- [Sales Representative of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-of-services) — median $69,990
- [Appraiser of Personal and Business Property](https://nuecareer.com/careers/appraiser-of-personal-and-business-property) — median $67,960
- [Counter and Rental Clerk](https://nuecareer.com/careers/counter-and-rental-clerk) — median $41,300
- [Loan Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/loan-officer) — median $76,690
- [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor) — median $105,070

## 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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