Convincing people and companies to buy, and building the deals and relationships that keep businesses alive.
Top pay: highest pay, longest training
Sales Manager: Leads a team of salespeople, sets their goals, and coaches them to hit their numbers. Typical pay $140k.
Chief Revenue Officer / VP of Sales: The executive in charge of all the money coming into a company: sales, renewals, and partnerships. Typical pay $260k.
Enterprise Account Executive: Sells big, expensive products like software or services to large companies, with deals that can take a year. Typical pay $160k.
Business Development Director: Finds new markets, partners, and big opportunities for a company to grow. Typical pay $135k.
Strategic Partnerships Manager: Builds deals between companies, like a streaming service partnering with a phone company. Typical pay $125k.
Channel Sales Manager: Sells through other companies, like resellers and distributors, instead of directly to customers. Typical pay $140k.
Capture Manager: Plans how a company will win huge government contracts, often months or years before the bid opens. Typical pay $165k.
Inside Sales Representative: Sells products by phone, video, and email instead of in person. Typical pay $62k.
Renewals Manager: Makes sure existing customers sign up again when their contracts end. Typical pay $85k.
Sales Team Supervisor: Leads a team of sales reps outside of stores, such as inside sales, insurance or wholesale. Typical pay $88k.
Sales Commission Analyst: Calculates how much each salesperson earns in commissions and designs fair pay plans. Typical pay $77k.
Food Broker: Represents many food brands at once and sells them to grocery chains, making sure products get shelf space, promotions and good placement. Typical pay $78k.
Yearbook Sales Representative: Sells yearbook printing to schools, then coaches the student yearbook staff on design, deadlines and software all year. Typical pay $70k.
Educational Publishing Sales Rep: Sells textbooks, digital lessons and curriculum programs to school districts and colleges, often during big statewide adoption years. Typical pay $85k.
New Home Sales Consultant: Works inside a model home for a home builder, selling houses that are not built yet and guiding buyers through lots, floor plans and upgrades. Typical pay $85k.
Starter: fastest way in
Sales Development Representative: Finds and contacts potential customers to book meetings for senior salespeople. Typical pay $54k.
Customer Service Representative: Answers customers' questions and solves problems by phone, chat, or email. Typical pay $43k.
Telemarketer: Calls people to sell products, services, or ask for donations. Typical pay $34k.
Door-to-Door Sales Representative: Sells products like solar panels, pest control, or home security by knocking on doors. Typical pay $38k.
Order Clerk: Takes and processes customer orders by phone, email or computer, and tracks them until they ship. Typical pay $46k.
Lottery Sales Representative: Works for a state lottery, visiting convenience stores and gas stations to stock scratch tickets, set up displays and help stores sell more. Typical pay $54k.
Church Bulletin Ad Sales Rep: Sells small ads to local businesses, like plumbers and pizza places, for the weekly bulletins that churches hand out, which pays for printing them. Typical pay $50k.
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