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Advertising Sales Agents

SOC 41-3011

Sell ad space and airtime to businesses, on commission.

The job
Median pay
$65k
$47k to $100k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Declining
-7.2% projected
Openings a year
8k
BLS projection
Typical education
High school
Our model
AI displacement risk
High
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
6/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
67th pct
More exposed than 67% of occupations · modeled estimate · 97th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
33/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
New York13,5701.42.4×$98k
California9,6200.50.9×$80k
Florida6,4200.61.1×$58k
Texas6,2300.40.8×$60k
Pennsylvania4,2600.71.2×$58k
Illinois3,7900.61.1×$66k
Washington3,5101.01.7×$101k
Ohio3,2200.61.0×$50k
Georgia3,1500.61.1×$58k
Virginia2,4270.61.0×$63k~
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
North Carolina2,2200.40.8×$63k~
New Jersey2,1100.50.8×$70k
Michigan2,0400.50.8×$65k
Tennessee1,8200.60.9×$41k
South Carolina1,7700.81.3×$68k
Minnesota1,7500.61.0×$63k
Missouri1,6400.60.9×$61k
Massachusetts1,4800.40.7×$81k
Indiana1,4100.40.8×$57k
Wisconsin1,2900.40.7×$63k
Nebraska1,1901.22.0×$63k
Arizona1,1600.40.6×$62k
Colorado1,1100.40.7×$73k
Utah1,1100.61.1×$74k
Oregon9600.50.8×$63k
Kansas9200.61.1×$49k
Alabama9100.40.7×$51k
Arkansas9000.71.2×$49k
Iowa9000.61.0×$58k
Maryland8800.30.5×$60k
Louisiana8600.40.8×$49k
Connecticut7400.40.7×$62k
Oklahoma7000.40.7×$58k
Kentucky6200.30.5×$52k
Nevada5800.40.6×$62k~
Mississippi4900.40.7×$47k
Maine4000.61.1×$49k
South Dakota3900.91.4×$60k
Rhode Island3400.71.1×$48k
Washington DC3200.50.8×$75k
Hawaii3100.50.8×$61k
New Mexico3000.30.6×$46k
New Hampshire2900.40.7×$55k
West Virginia2900.40.7×$45k
North Dakota2600.61.0×$50k
Montana2400.50.8×$46k
Alaska2300.71.2×$44k
Idaho2200.30.4×$53k
Vermont1600.50.9×$59k
Wyoming1500.50.9×$47k
Delaware1400.30.5×$52k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ13,210 jobs · $99k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA5,230 jobs · $80k median
  3. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,830 jobs · $76k median
  4. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA2,770 jobs · $105k median
  5. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX2,390 jobs · $61k median
  6. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL2,200 jobs · $63k median
  7. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA2,050 jobs · $61k median
  8. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,670 jobs · $63k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.