Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products in the United States earn a median of $72,080 a year. Pay starts near $39,090. The national 90th percentile is $137,550. This page does not publish a state top-of-range figure.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products, SOC 41-4012). Employment 1,238,190. Last checked 22 September 2026. National percentiles via the BLS OEWS release as republished on O*NET OnLine wage tables.
Wages — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2025 (Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products). Entry is the national 10th percentile. The top chip is the national 90th percentile, not a state. The middle half of workers earns $50,470 to $99,640. Hourly equivalents: $18.79, $34.65, and $66.13. O*NET says a high school diploma is required for some jobs in this occupation and a bachelor's degree is required for others. It does not publish a single percentage mode on the profile used here. The marker on the exposure bar is PayCrunch editorial context, not a BLS statistic. Updated 22 September 2026.
Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers, except technical and scientific products. Answer questions on price, availability, and credit, and recommend the product the buyer asked about.
AI tools that fit Wholesale Sales Representative work September 2026
A short list of general tools. This is not a sponsored placement, not a weekly crawl, and not a product review with prices. Use whatever your employer already allows.
A general assistant for plain-language notes.
How a Wholesale Sales Representative uses it: Turn a buyer note into a quote outline, then delete any price or date you did not provide.
AI inside Excel and Outlook.
How a Wholesale Sales Representative uses it: Summarize open orders and the dates you already have before a call.
Google's assistant in Search and Workspace.
How a Wholesale Sales Representative uses it: Check a published product spec only from a source you can name, not from a guess.
Wholesale sales: the quote, the date, and SOC 41-4012
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products, are SOC 41-4012. The locked chips are entry $39,090, median $72,080, and a national 90th percentile of $137,550. BLS counted 1,238,190 wage-and-salary workers in this occupation in May 2025. The services sales page on this site is SOC 41-3091, median $69,990. Do not mix the two.
Where the national band sits
The middle half earns $50,470 to $99,640. The step from the median $72,080 to the national 90th percentile $137,550 is $65,470 a year. That is the published national range, not a territory assignment. This page does not invent a state median.
What the quote has to survive
A quote names the product, the quantity, the price you were given, and the delivery date you were given. A date you hoped for is not a date.
Outlook
O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as little or no change. O*NET still projects about 114,800 openings a year over 2024–2034 because people leave. Little or no change is not a lost account.
Locked wage chips on this page: entry $39,090, median $72,080, national 90th percentile $137,550. SOC 41-4012. If a sentence disagrees with those three figures, the figures win.
How to do the work that sits inside this pay band
These steps stay inside the published national range. They are not a promise that you will be paid the 90th percentile.
A missed delivery costs the reorder.
Turn this buyer note into a quote skeleton. Leave the delivery date blank if I did not provide one.A push of the wrong sku does not reorder.
List products I should mention only from the need and the catalog lines I paste. Do not invent a spec.The reorder depends on the last problem being closed.
Rewrite this service note so the buyer can see the problem, the fix, and what is still open. Do not add a credit I did not paste.Careers related to Wholesale Sales Representative
Similar pay, same field
- Sales Representative $69,990
- Loan Officer $76,690
- Compliance Officer $80,730
- Travel Agent $50,160
Where this can lead
- Operations Manager $105,770
Wages in this list are the national medians printed on those pages. Every new page in this batch uses BLS OEWS May 2025. The step from this median to the national 90th percentile is $65,470.
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Paste only facts you already have: a count, a date, a step, a file name. If the draft adds a number, a policy, or a product you did not provide, delete it.
Do not paste account numbers, full customer records, patient information, or anything your employer has told you to keep inside its own system.
TODO: PC_GEAR is not filled in this batch. No product links and no ASINs until a reviewed list exists. Do not invent ASINs.
TODO: state-wage table is not filled in this batch. The chips above are national OEWS May 2025 percentiles only. State medians are not estimated here.
Sources
- BLS OEWS — Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products (SOC 41-4012)
- O*NET OnLine summary for 41-4012.00 (2025 wages and 2024–2034 outlook category)
- Salary (10th, 25th, median, 75th, 90th) — national BLS OEWS May 2025.
- Employment — national OEWS May 2025 wage-and-salary employment, 1,238,190.
- Outlook — O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as little or no change. Projected openings: about 114,800 a year.
- Not on this page — state wages, metro wages, and product recommendations.
Check another occupation
These ten pages are the next high-employment OEWS lines that were missing as their own salary URLs.