Telemarketers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($24,620) to the 90th ($48,930). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 66,430, or 0.04% of the U.S. total. Texas leads the state table with 6,930 jobs; the top three states sum to 30.6% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Nevada posts a location quotient of 4.28, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $48,930, which is 2.0 times the $24,620 at the 10th, a difference of $24,310 annually. Because the mean wage ($36,340) sits above the median ($34,410), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Texas first at 6,930 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, New Mexico would lead at $66,700. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Telemarketers stands number 336 by employment and number 804 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% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.5% of the group's 13,351,670 jobs. In 14 of the 44 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $34,410, 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

Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV is the largest metro employer with 2,430 jobs, 3.7% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 95 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, $24,880 a year, against $55,350 in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, 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

The median Telemarketers paycheck, gross, is $1,323 every two weeks on an annual $34,410, which is $2,868 a month and $662 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($29,120) to the 75th ($38,640) is worth $9,520 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $37,851 would sit between the median ($34,410) and the 75th percentile ($38,640), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $29,120, is $5,290 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

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Retail Salespersons, 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. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.