Demonstrators and Product Promoters
What the pay figures show
- Michigan pays this job the most, at $50,290. Unusually, it stays on top. Tax does not overturn it. Nor do local prices — it is still first at $43,215 once levelled out. That is rarer than it sounds. For most jobs the leader changes.
- Michigan leads for demonstrators and product promoters at $50,290 and retains the position through both adjustments, finishing first at $43,215 in price-deflated terms. That robustness is the minority case: across the largest occupations, state income tax reorders the leader roughly a third of the time and price level does so more often still. Where the nominal leader survives both, the wage premium is large enough to absorb the state's own tax and price levels.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$39,320
People doing it
64,520
Highest paid
$50,290
MI
Best off, really
$43,215
MI, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$31,200
Highest tenth
$63,850
Lowest, really
$26,281
DE
States with data
48
National average
$45,580
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
94.18%
MI, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $26,281 and $43,215. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- This is a small job: about 64,520 people nationally. Fewer workers means each state figure is built on less data.
- This job is not published everywhere — 48 jurisdictions have a figure, with $39,320 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Michigan tops the ones that are.
- Interstate variation for demonstrators and product promoters is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $26,281 to $43,215. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- With 64,520 workers, demonstrators and product promoters is among the smaller occupations BLS publishes. Treat single-state figures as indicative rather than precise; suppression and sampling error both bite harder at this scale.
- 48 jurisdictions carry a published median for demonstrators and product promoters. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Demonstrators and Product Promoters
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,850 |
| This salary | $39,320 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Demonstrators and Product Promoters
The national median for this job
$39,320around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $39,320 |
| Top tenth | $63,850 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Demonstrators and Product Promoters, state by state
The national median for this job
48states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Mississippi · $28,470 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Michigan · $50,290 |
| Spread | $21,820 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $38,780 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $39,907 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| MI | $50,290 | $40,701 | $43,215 |
| IN | $47,630 | $39,075 | $42,388 |
| OK | $45,760 | $37,389 | $42,350 |
| NV | $45,030 | $38,362 | $39,556 |
| KY | $42,910 | $35,274 | $38,991 |
| RI | $47,600 | $39,062 | $38,518 |
| NY | $49,150 | $39,615 | $36,808 |
| MA | $47,590 | $38,359 | $35,440 |
| SC | $38,590 | $32,718 | $35,113 |
| IA | $37,050 | $31,154 | $35,096 |
| MO | $37,740 | $31,668 | $34,511 |
| TX | $38,780 | $33,340 | $34,309 |
| WI | $38,220 | $31,859 | $34,221 |
| CA | $46,220 | $38,333 | $34,050 |
| VA | $41,600 | $33,974 | $33,722 |
| AZ | $39,780 | $33,551 | $33,185 |
| UT | $38,280 | $31,235 | $32,878 |
| AR | $33,640 | $28,424 | $32,857 |
| TN | $35,070 | $30,359 | $32,815 |
| NC | $36,650 | $30,675 | $32,584 |
| OH | $34,610 | $29,754 | $32,407 |
| VT | $37,040 | $30,957 | $32,035 |
| ND | $32,180 | $28,037 | $31,654 |
| PA | $36,910 | $30,704 | $31,491 |
| NH | $38,510 | $33,123 | $31,442 |
| CO | $37,750 | $31,560 | $31,129 |
| MT | $33,070 | $27,954 | $30,976 |
| KS | $33,770 | $27,718 | $30,810 |
| MD | $38,900 | $31,952 | $30,733 |
| ME | $35,880 | $29,839 | $30,731 |
| WA | $38,670 | $33,251 | $30,629 |
| IL | $36,550 | $29,883 | $30,230 |
| NE | $32,180 | $27,261 | $30,164 |
| DC | $39,750 | $32,900 | $29,692 |
| CT | $36,890 | $30,771 | $29,676 |
| SD | $29,560 | $25,931 | $29,436 |
| MN | $34,180 | $28,634 | $29,094 |
| ID | $31,370 | $26,576 | $29,069 |
| HI | $38,490 | $31,561 | $29,060 |
| LA | $29,680 | $25,524 | $28,891 |
| OR | $38,430 | $30,246 | $28,883 |
| NJ | $36,420 | $30,886 | $28,366 |
| GA | $32,180 | $27,030 | $27,952 |
| NM | $29,110 | $25,247 | $27,932 |
| MS | $28,470 | $24,008 | $27,503 |
| AL | $28,630 | $23,998 | $26,673 |
| FL | $31,300 | $27,330 | $26,418 |
| DE | $31,200 | $26,084 | $26,281 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $39,320.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Michigan keeps the most at $40,701.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Delaware sits at the bottom on $26,281.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for demonstrators and product promoters, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $39,320, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- The household modeled for demonstrators and product promoters is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Michigan retains the most, $40,701. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to demonstrators and product promoters uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Delaware at $26,281. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Delaware anchors the bottom at $26,281 — and the two source series are dated independently.