United States · SOC 41-0000 · Annual, 2025
Sales and related occupations in the United States
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 41-0000 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 13,372,000 people in the United States worked in sales and related occupations (SOC 41-0000), with an average annual wage of $62,740.
Employment in sales and related occupations in the United States declined 2.8% from 2004 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for the United States are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 13,372,000Employment, 2025
- $62,740Mean annual wage
- 8.6%Share of U.S. jobs
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 13,760,000; 2005 13,980,200; 2006 14,157,500; 2007 14,299,200; 2008 14,125,400; 2009 13,345,800; 2010 13,233,800; 2011 13,394,700; 2012 13,615,700; 2013 13,839,100; 2014 14,093,300; 2015 14,365,600; 2016 14,536,300; 2017 14,519,000; 2018 14,445,600; 2019 14,278,400; 2020 13,258,200; 2021 13,388,100; 2022 13,565,100; 2023 13,466,300; 2024 13,448,000; 2025 13,372,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13,372,010 | $62,744 | 0.6% |
| 2024 | 13,448,008 | $60,117 | 0.1% |
| 2023 | 13,466,276 | $58,433 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 13,565,070 | $56,365 | 1.3% |
| 2021 | 13,388,123 | $54,551 | 1.0% |
| 2020 | 13,258,195 | $51,014 | 7.1% |
| 2019 | 14,278,409 | $47,256 | 1.2% |
| 2018 | 14,445,647 | $45,577 | 0.5% |
| 2017 | 14,518,985 | $44,330 | 0.1% |
| 2016 | 14,536,295 | $42,810 | 1.2% |
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.
Notes
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Sales and related occupations in the United States, quarterly, at full depth
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