Sales and Related Workers, All Other
What the pay figures show
- Washington pays this job the most, $75,100. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and South Dakota wins, at $58,613. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For sales and related workers, all other, Washington leads both nominally at $75,100 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts South Dakota first at $58,613. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$48,280
People doing it
93,180
Highest paid
$75,100
WA
Best off, really
$58,613
SD, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$29,720
Highest tenth
$97,910
Lowest, really
$26,467
AR
States with data
48
National average
$58,510
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.09%
SD, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $26,467 to $58,613.
- Just 93,180 Americans work in this job. Small fields move around more from year to year.
- This job is not published everywhere — 48 jurisdictions have a figure, with $48,280 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Washington tops the ones that are.
- Geographic dispersion in sales and related workers, all other is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $26,467 to $58,613 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- 93,180 are employed nationally in sales and related workers, all other — a small occupation, where the state spread above is more sensitive to sample composition than it would be in a large one.
- 48 jurisdictions carry a published median for sales and related workers, all other. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Sales and Related Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,910 |
| This salary | $48,280 |
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 Sales and Related Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
$48,280around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $29,720 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $48,280 |
| Top tenth | $97,910 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Sales and Related Workers, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
48states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $26,490 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $75,100 |
| Spread | $48,610 |
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 | $38,170 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $39,280 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD | $61,550 | $51,635 | $58,613 |
| WA | $75,100 | $61,663 | $56,800 |
| NJ | $74,520 | $58,685 | $53,898 |
| DE | $64,590 | $51,046 | $51,430 |
| HI | $70,720 | $54,650 | $50,318 |
| CT | $65,740 | $52,136 | $50,282 |
| UT | $59,170 | $47,090 | $49,567 |
| CO | $60,670 | $48,967 | $48,300 |
| ND | $49,810 | $42,202 | $47,647 |
| NH | $58,290 | $49,016 | $46,529 |
| KY | $49,990 | $40,715 | $45,005 |
| TN | $48,190 | $40,901 | $44,210 |
| IN | $49,320 | $40,383 | $43,807 |
| GA | $51,570 | $41,642 | $43,063 |
| WI | $48,140 | $39,341 | $42,258 |
| MT | $46,160 | $37,857 | $41,949 |
| AL | $46,660 | $37,674 | $41,874 |
| VT | $48,890 | $40,082 | $41,477 |
| IL | $50,960 | $40,749 | $41,221 |
| NY | $55,270 | $44,202 | $41,070 |
| AZ | $47,440 | $39,515 | $39,083 |
| CA | $52,810 | $43,252 | $38,418 |
| MI | $44,160 | $36,037 | $38,262 |
| MA | $51,620 | $41,396 | $38,245 |
| SC | $42,210 | $35,542 | $38,145 |
| MD | $48,920 | $39,527 | $38,020 |
| PA | $42,450 | $34,985 | $35,882 |
| OH | $37,870 | $32,283 | $35,163 |
| NE | $37,760 | $31,506 | $34,861 |
| NC | $38,470 | $32,064 | $34,061 |
| TX | $38,170 | $32,850 | $33,805 |
| IA | $35,250 | $29,776 | $33,544 |
| NM | $35,610 | $30,229 | $33,444 |
| OR | $45,080 | $35,007 | $33,429 |
| FL | $40,180 | $34,465 | $33,315 |
| MN | $38,350 | $31,761 | $32,272 |
| NV | $36,180 | $31,251 | $32,224 |
| ME | $37,560 | $31,092 | $32,021 |
| MO | $34,270 | $29,043 | $31,650 |
| ID | $34,400 | $28,851 | $31,556 |
| MS | $32,700 | $27,238 | $31,204 |
| LA | $31,990 | $27,311 | $30,913 |
| WY | $31,870 | $27,788 | $30,587 |
| VA | $35,730 | $29,595 | $29,375 |
| WV | $30,790 | $26,168 | $29,149 |
| OK | $29,630 | $25,155 | $28,492 |
| KS | $30,470 | $25,251 | $28,068 |
| AR | $26,490 | $22,896 | $26,467 |
Sources and assumptions
- These are middle-of-the-range figures for this job, not what a new starter is offered. Half the people doing this job earn under $48,280 nationally, half over. Your own experience and employer will move you well away from that midpoint in either direction.
- 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, Washington keeps the most at $61,663.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Arkansas, on $26,467.
- All wage figures for sales and related workers, all other are medians rather than entry or offer rates; the national median is $48,280. Within-state dispersion typically exceeds between-state dispersion in this data, so an individual's expected wage is determined more by experience, sector and employer than by the state comparisons presented here.
- The household modeled for sales and related workers, all other 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 Washington retains the most, $61,663. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms results for sales and related workers, all other rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Arkansas anchors the distribution at $26,467. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.