Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 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 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $65,640. 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

BLS counted 293,930 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products jobs in May 2024, which is 0.19% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Texas, where the location quotient is 2.04, meaning the occupation holds 2.04 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 53,770 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 33.4% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $194,890, which is 4.0 times the $48,840 at the 10th, a difference of $146,050 annually. Because the mean wage ($114,520) sits above the median ($100,070), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

New Jersey posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $134,240, and Texas the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products stands number 124 by employment and number 127 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 78% more than its group median, and it supplies 2.2% of the group's 13,351,670 jobs. In 21 of the 50 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $100,070, 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

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX is the largest metro employer with 17,730 jobs, 6.0% of the national total. Employment rank and pay rank are different lists: the second table re-sorts metros with at least 500 jobs in this occupation by mean pay, the floor keeping a handful of workers from posing as a market.

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, $74,560 a year, against $218,930 in Ann Arbor, MI. That is the metro effect in one line: identical job title, materially different pay, decided mostly by which labor market the job sits in.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median annual wage of $100,070 works out to $8,339 a month before taxes, $3,849 per biweekly paycheck, and $1,924 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($65,640) to the 75th ($146,150) is worth $80,510 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $110,077 would sit between the median ($100,070) and the 75th percentile ($146,150), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $65,640, is $34,430 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

Pay for the neighboring roles in the same BLS major group: Cashiers, Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products, Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel, First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers, Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents, Insurance Sales Agents. The full directory is on the Careers hub.