Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
SOC 41-4012 · 2024-2034
Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.
How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.
Shrinking -3.3%
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
- $77,187per year
- Projected openings
- 117,100
- Projected change
- -3.3%
- 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.
- Speaking
- Active Listening
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Social Perceptiveness
- Critical Thinking
Pay by region
| Region | Typical pay in California | Projected openings |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties) | $101,934 | 6,290 |
| San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties) | $95,323 | 4,240 |
| Napa MSA (Napa County) | $91,740 | 960 |
| Salinas MSA (Monterey County) | $84,357 | 1,400 |
| Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties) | $81,974 | 7,800 |
| San Rafael MD (Marin County) | $81,001 | 550 |
| Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County) | $78,999 | 930 |
| Vallejo MSA (Solano County) | $78,631 | 810 |
| Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County) | $77,650 | 1,900 |
| Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County) | $77,220 | 170 |
| San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County) | $77,200 | 630 |
| Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County) | $76,423 | 2,930 |
| Visalia MSA (Tulare County) | $76,259 | 890 |
| Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County) | $76,014 | 2,140 |
| Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties) | $75,584 | 380 |
| Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County) | $74,567 | 14,530 |
| San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County) | $74,337 | 8,440 |
| Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County) | $73,672 | 1,460 |
| Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties) | $72,926 | 5,380 |
| El Centro MSA (Imperial County) | $72,885 | 360 |
| North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties) | $72,578 | 610 |
| Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County) | $71,175 | 35,000 |
| Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County) | $70,778 | 1,930 |
| Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties) | $68,130 | 3,030 |
| Redding MSA (Shasta County) | $66,504 | 320 |
| Chico MSA (Butte County) | $65,727 | 380 |
| Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties) | $65,645 | 11,870 |
| Merced MSA (Merced County) | $65,093 | 430 |
| Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County) | $65,093 | 1,340 |
| Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties) | $64,878 | 140 |
| North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties) | $64,111 | 490 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products | $125,352 | 24,440 | -1.7% |
| Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel | $81,587 | 164,660 | +4.7% |
| Advertising Sales Agents | $81,092 | 9,540 | -4.9% |
| Sales Managers | $137,173 | 88,500 | +2.9% |
| Sales Engineers | $140,428 | 5,260 | +1.6% |
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