# Account Executive Posted Median Falls to $124,618, Down From $300,000 in the Prior 30 Days | Career App Daily

*September 7, 2026, by Ben Garves*

The posted median for [Account Executive](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/account-executive) roles across the boards we track came in at **$124,618** over the last 30 days, against **$300,000** in the 30 days before that. That is a drop of $175,382, or 58%, between two consecutive windows.

Both pools are small, and they are not the same size. The recent window rests on **58 postings** with a usable pay range; the prior window rested on **110**. All figures here are employer-posted salary ranges annualized to USD (hourly rates at 2,080 hours) — not member-reported pay, and not offer data.

![Account Executive posted median, 30-day windows](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/adcd99bb-4a3a-4246-8a47-2d813c54cc83.png)

## Read it as a mix shift, not a pay cut

A 58% move in one month is not what pay does. It is what a changing set of employers does. Two things in the packet argue for that reading.

First, every occupation in our posted-salary movers list fell between the two windows — all eight of them. [Director of Sales](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/director-of-sales) went from $319,000 to $196,750 (5 postings in each window). [Sales Consultant](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/sales-consultant) went from $216,000 to $100,000 (5 postings, then 13). [Solutions Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/solutions-engineer) went from $250,000 to $135,000, with the pool collapsing from 47 postings to 5. [Product Designer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/product-designer) went $233,000 to $135,000, [Network Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/network-engineer) $275,000 to $192,450, [Human Resources Business Partner](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/human-resources-business-partner) $187,500 to $105,000, and [Human Resources Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/human-resources-manager) $238,000 to $163,475. When the whole board moves one direction at once, the story is usually the board, not the jobs.

![Posted median, last 30 days vs prior 30: all eight movers fell](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/30a139a1-12ed-4b47-8a0b-b99e8e8e14c7.png)

Second, crawl volume between the windows changed enormously. We captured 52,338 new postings in the last 30 days against 4,617 in the prior 30. So the prior-window medians — including that $300,000 Account Executive figure — were computed from a much thinner, narrower slice of employers, while the recent window draws on a far wider sweep. Account Executive is the exception in direction of pool size: it had more priced postings in the thin window (110) than in the wide one (58), which suggests the prior window was concentrated in a handful of high-paying boards.

## Where Account Executive sits in the wider pay picture

On the current, larger pool of priced listings, Account Executive shows a median of **$210,200 across 168 postings** — the fourth-largest priced pool of any occupation we track, and the largest in sales. That number sits well above the two-window swing's low point, which is another reason to treat the $124,618 as a window artifact rather than a new level.

![Posted median by occupation, current priced pools](https://career.thegoodapps.co/posts/visuals/5f2f0c81-06da-4c7c-9338-d878f99593bf.png)

For comparison inside sales on the same basis: [Sales Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/sales-manager) posts a $175,000 median on 120 listings, and [Sales Representative](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/sales-representative) posts $79,250 on 156. Above sales, [Machine Learning Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/machine-learning-engineer) leads at $283,500 (99 listings), followed by [Engineering Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/engineering-manager) at $280,000 (203), [Product Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/product-manager) at $243,700 (316) and [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) at $240,000 (1,125).

## What we cannot say

The packet carries no occupation-level hiring counts this week, so we cannot tell you whether Account Executive postings themselves rose or fell in volume — only how many carried a usable pay range in each window. Overall, the boards we track are busier: 9,964 new postings in the last seven days against 7,044 the week before, across 687 employers and 12 states, with 56,955 listings open.

If you are negotiating off a posted range, use the 168-listing figure and check the individual posting. A median built from 58 ranges moves when three big-ticket employers stop posting. See [how we crawl employer boards](https://career.thegoodapps.co/bot) for what goes into these counts, or start from the [occupations index](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations).

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