The PayScale Index (US): Trends in Compensation

Where can you find sales professionals? You'll find them in nearly every industry because they close deals and bring in money. While retail workers are covered in the retail jobs category, this category includes not only salespeople but models, product demonstrators, and sales engineers.

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Sales (SOC Codes 11-2022.00 Sales Managers; 41-1012.00 First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers; 41-3000.00 Sales Representatives, Services; 41-4000.00 Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing; 41-9000.00 Other Sales and Related Workers) jobs focus on closing the deal and bringing in the money. In addition to its obvious members, like non-retail sales representatives and agents of all types, this category also includes models, product demonstrators, and sales engineers. These workers are found in almost every industry.

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) system is used by Federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The PayScale Index tracks quarterly changes in total cash compensation for full-time, private industry employees in the United States. In addition to a national index, it includes separate indices for specific industries, metropolitan areas, job categories, and company sizes. The PayScale Index uses 2006 average total cash compensation as a baseline.

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