District of Columbia · SOC 41-0000 · Annual, 2025
Sales and related occupations in the District of Columbia
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 41-0000 in the District of Columbia, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 27,100 people in the District of Columbia worked in sales and related occupations (SOC 41-0000), with an average annual wage of $77,610.
Employment in sales and related occupations in the District of Columbia declined 8.0% from 2020 to 2025. This occupation group is less concentrated in the District of Columbia than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.43). The average wage in this occupation group is 37.8% below the all-occupations average in the District of Columbia. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for the District of Columbia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 27,100Employment, 2025
- $77,610Mean annual wage
- 3.6%Share of District of Columbia jobs
- 0.43Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 28,700; 2005 29,000; 2006 29,300; 2007 29,600; 2008 29,600; 2009 28,500; 2010 29,000; 2011 29,400; 2012 29,900; 2013 30,800; 2014 32,000; 2015 33,100; 2016 33,700; 2017 34,000; 2018 34,400; 2019 34,200; 2020 29,500; 2021 28,000; 2022 28,600; 2023 28,300; 2024 27,600; 2025 27,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27,129 | $77,609 | 1.7% |
| 2024 | 27,588 | $74,329 | 2.6% |
| 2023 | 28,341 | $69,519 | 1.1% |
| 2022 | 28,646 | $67,859 | 2.3% |
| 2021 | 27,990 | $67,678 | 5.1% |
| 2020 | 29,491 | $63,803 | 13.8% |
| 2019 | 34,210 | $56,276 | 0.6% |
| 2018 | 34,415 | $54,501 | 1.2% |
| 2017 | 34,004 | $52,897 | 1.0% |
| 2016 | 33,654 | $51,014 | 1.5% |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
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Sales and related occupations in District of Columbia, quarterly, at full depth
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