Sales Executive Posted Median Jumps to $325,000, Up 26.5% From the Prior 30 Days

The posted median for Sales Executive roles across the boards we track came in at $325,000 over the last 30 days, up from $256,900 in the 30 days before that. That's a move of $68,100, or 26.5%.

Two things to hold onto before reading anything into it. First, these are employer-posted pay ranges annualized to USD (hourly rates at 2,080 hours), not what anyone reports earning. Second, the pools are small: 33 Sales Executive listings with pay attached in the last 30 days, and 47 in the prior 30. At that size, a handful of senior enterprise roles carrying large on-target figures can move a median several tens of thousands of dollars on their own.

The count fell while the median rose

The listing count behind the median dropped from 47 to 33 — a 30% decline in priced Sales Executive postings between the two windows. So the higher median is not coming from a broader pool. It is coming from a smaller one whose composition shifted upward.

That pattern shows up elsewhere in the same data. Sales Manager postings went from a $165,000 posted median on 99 priced listings to $215,000 on 29 — a 30.3% median rise on a pool that shrank by more than two thirds. Manufacturing Engineer did the same thing: $156,000 on 71 listings, then $222,000 on 21. When priced pools thin out, what survives tends to skew senior.

Where $325,000 sits among sales titles

Across our full priced pools, the sales ladder we track looks like this:

• Account Executive: $205,600 posted median across 189 listings
• Sales Manager: $175,000 across 128 listings
• Sales Representative: $75,914 across 167 listings

Against those, the Sales Executive figure of $325,000 sits well above the next sales title and above the highest-paying occupation in our main salary table, Engineering Manager at $280,000 across 242 listings. Note the windows differ: the three sales medians above are drawn from full priced pools, while the $325,000 covers only the last 30 days.

Hiring context

Sales Executive did not appear among the fastest-growing occupations on our boards this week. The sales titles that did: Sales Manager at 16 new postings this week against 5 the prior week, and Sales Associate at 12 against 10. Both are modest counts.

The backdrop is a busier week overall. Across the boards we track, 9,916 postings were new in the last 7 days against 7,459 the week before, with 57,922 listings open from 686 employers hiring across 12 states. Over 30 days, new postings ran 29,861 against 28,061 in the prior 30 — a smaller step up than the weekly figure suggests.

Among skills, Salesforce showed up in 56 new postings this week, tied with Microsoft Excel and behind only Python at 91 and SQL at 58. It is the only overtly sales-adjacent tool in the week's top twelve.

If you are tracking senior sales pay, the honest read is that a 33-listing median is a signal worth watching rather than a number to negotiate against. We publish the underlying counts daily on US hiring trends, day by day, and the live postings sit in Job search.