# Sales salary: $170,000–$235,000 a year

Every number below comes from 6,616 tracked live sales postings. No surveys, no self-reports — listed salaries only, in US dollars.

Measured September 2026 · n=2,229 US postings with salary.

## Findings

- The median sales posting offers $170,000–$235,000 a year (n=2,229, USD).
- 44.4% of the 6,616 live sales postings are remote.
- The middle half of postings (25th–75th percentile) top out between $170,000–$300,000 a year — the median alone hides how wide that spread is.
- Level 4 sales roles (building AI systems) list $184,000–$287,500, vs $154,875–$205,000 at Level 1.

## Median salary by seniority (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Intern | 2 | $55,120–$55,120 |
| Junior | 83 | $77,520–$100,000 |
| Mid-level | 362 | $140,000–$182,975 |
| Senior | 985 | $180,000–$250,000 |
| Lead | 171 | $198,000–$272,000 |

## Remote vs on-site (USD / year)

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Remote | 1,136 | $170,000–$225,500 |
| On-site / hybrid | 1,093 | $168,000–$241,000 |

## Building AI vs working around it

| Segment | US postings with salary | Median min–max / year |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Level 4 — Build AI systems | 41 | $184,000–$287,500 |
| Level 1 — Work around AI | 1,483 | $154,875–$205,000 |

## Companies hiring sales roles

- [Salesforce](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/salesforce) (633)
- [Databricks](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/databricks) (398)
- [NVIDIA](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/nvidia) (240)
- [Datadog](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/datadog) (186)
- [Stripe](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/stripe) (169)
- [Zscaler](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/zscaler) (159)
- [Airwallex](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/airwallex) (147)
- [Cloudflare](https://jobsbylevel.com/companies/cloudflare) (122)

## Method

US-dollar postings with both salary bounds listed. This page exists because 2,229 such postings clear the 50-posting floor Level requires before publishing a dedicated salary page — below that, the median moves too much between ingestion cycles to be a citable number.

Sample: sales postings at tech companies tracked by Level (6,616 live postings in this category on the measured date). Not the whole labor market — do not cite as a national average.

All amounts are USD per year. Every median and quartile above excludes hourly-rate postings (a listed maximum under $1,000, almost always an hourly rate, not a salary) and mid-range postings that are neither clearly hourly nor clearly annual (maximum between $1,000 and $10,000) — mixing either into an annual median would understate the real number. The middle 50% of postings top out between $170,000–$300,000 (25th–75th percentile).

Refreshed automatically; this edition is measured September 2026. Small-n slices move a lot — read the n column first.

## Sales salary questions, answered from the data

**What is the median sales salary?**

Across 2,229 live US postings for sales roles with a listed USD salary, measured September 2026, the median offer is $170,000–$235,000 a year. This is the tracked catalog, not the whole labor market.

**How many sales roles jobs are remote?**

44.4% of the 2,229 live postings are marked remote by the employer, measured September 2026.

**Does the AI level of the job change the pay?**

In this sample, 109 postings are Level 4 (building AI systems) and 4,809 are Level 1 (AI is not the work). See the AI level breakdown below for the median in each band. Measured September 2026.

Source: https://jobsbylevel.com/salaries/sales