First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $62,730. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 219,010 people in May 2024, 0.14% of every job BLS counted. Texas is the largest employer at 21,650 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 26.1% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Colorado, whose location quotient of 2.12 says this work is 2.12 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $62,730 at the 25th percentile, $84,130 at the middle, $118,190 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $113,240, a ratio of 3.3 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers runs from the $118,350 median in New York down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Texas (21,650 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers stands number 153 by employment and number 186 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Sales and Related Occupations, the group median wage is $56,320 across 22 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 49% more than its group median, and it supplies 1.6% of the group's 13,351,670 jobs. In 12 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $84,130, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 19,460 jobs, 8.9% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 366 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $55,140 a year, against $130,920 in Boulder, CO. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $7,011 a month before tax, $3,236 biweekly, $1,618 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($62,730) to the 75th ($118,190) is worth $55,460 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $92,543 would sit between the median ($84,130) and the 75th percentile ($118,190), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $62,730, is $21,400 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Sales and Related Occupations

Compare the ladder above with the closest relatives in the survey: Travel Agents, Sales Engineers, Real Estate Brokers, Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers, Models, Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers. The Careers hub carries the whole branch, group by group.