First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
SOC 41-1011 · 2024-2034
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of retail sales workers in an establishment or department. Duties may include management functions, such as purchasing, budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
Shrinking -3.4%
California projects this job will shrink over the next ten years. Fewer openings may mean a harder search.
The job this trains for
- Typical pay in California
- $55,370per year
- Projected openings
- 126,230
- Projected change
- -3.4%
- Usually needs
- High school diploma or equivalent
Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Numerous Job Openings
The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.
Skills this work uses most
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.
- Active Listening
- Service Orientation
- Speaking
- Social Perceptiveness
- Monitoring
- Critical Thinking
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $61,617 | 5,580 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $59,091 | 770 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $58,547 | 890 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $58,445 | 7,510 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $58,444 | 5,130 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $56,678 | 1,890 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $53,375 | 1,380 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $52,363 | 900 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $52,066 | 7,290 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $51,985 | 1,260 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $50,921 | 770 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $50,706 | 1,150 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $50,635 | 12,870 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $50,625 | 1,660 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $50,610 | 11,740 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $50,584 | 3,080 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $50,420 | 1,040 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $50,389 | 14,370 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $50,348 | 31,780 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $49,847 | 2,250 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $49,694 | 810 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $49,694 | 1,980 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $49,623 | 3,840 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $49,326 | 1,590 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $49,244 | 760 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $48,753 | 730 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $48,692 | 2,750 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $48,590 | 530 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $48,211 | 410 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $47,802 | 690 |
Similar work
O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.
| The job this trains for | Typical pay in California | Projected openings | Projected change |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers | $81,879 | 20,300 | -4.9% |
| First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers | $79,426 | 146,890 | +1.9% |
| First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers | $48,170 | 209,550 | +10.2% |
| First-line Supervisors of Entertainment And Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services | $54,978 | 19,590 | +9.9% |
| First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers | $63,027 | 34,020 | +4.4% |
| Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | $81,587 | 164,660 | +4.7% |
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