Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 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 Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $51,600. 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 472,300 Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents jobs in May 2024, which is 0.31% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in New York, where the location quotient is 2.07, meaning the occupation holds 2.07 times its national share of local jobs. New York employs the most people outright, 60,430 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 33.9% of the national total.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $168,130 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($215,210) is 4.6 times the 10th percentile ($47,080), a gap of $168,130 a year. The mean of $110,400 sitting above the median of $78,140 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

The state spread for Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents runs from the $167,040 median in New York down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in New York (60,430 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents stands number 74 by employment and number 228 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 39% more than its group median, and it supplies 3.5% of the group's 13,351,670 jobs. In 12 of the 49 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $78,140, 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 65,000 jobs, 13.8% 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, Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $55,580 a year, against $191,710 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. 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

As a household number, $78,140 a year is $6,512 a month gross, $3,005 every two weeks, $1,503 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($51,600) to the 75th ($129,480) is worth $77,880 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $6,512 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $85,954 would sit between the median ($78,140) and the 75th percentile ($129,480), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $51,600, is $26,540 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

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