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The best cities for tech sales jobs: openings, posted pay and what each city hires for
Written by Yuma Heymans, Founder & CEO of SalesJobs.Now.
Yuma runs SalesJobs.Now out of San Francisco. Recruiting is familiar ground: Yuma also co-founded HeroHunt.ai, a platform that uses AI to find and reach candidates.
The best cities for tech sales jobs, by the number of open seats, are San Francisco and New York, each with about 1,700 open tech sales roles on this board, followed by London with 1,315. San Francisco also posts the highest pay, a median of $200,000 a year for tech sales seats, ahead of Seattle ($190,000), Washington DC ($182,000) and New York ($177,000). Cities differ in the seats they hire for too: Dublin is a hub for sales development reps serving Europe, Bengaluru for sales engineers, and Washington DC for account executives selling to government. This guide ranks 21 cities and says what each is good for.
On 2 November 2026 this board had 20,304 open sales roles at tech companies (software, AI, cloud, cybersecurity and fintech), and the counts below are those whose posted location names each city. Pay is the midpoint of each posting's own range on a full year's scale (base or on-target earnings, as the posting states it), one per posting after repeats of the same title at the same company are merged, and the median across the city's postings. Most postings outside the US and Canada state no pay, so those cities have counts but no pay figure. The tech sales jobs page lists every open seat.
Contents
- US cities ranked
- Cities outside the US
- What each city hires for
- Remote instead of a city
- How these figures were counted
- Quick answers
1. US cities ranked
| City | Open tech sales roles | Median posted pay | Middle half | Stating pay | Most open roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 1,696 | $200,000 | $151,813 to $254,125 | 85% | NVIDIA, Anthropic, Salesforce, Stripe |
| New York | 1,689 | $177,000 | $130,900 to $235,000 | 84% | Anthropic, Ramp, Stripe, Braze |
| Chicago | 430 | $160,575 | $114,500 to $213,750 | 79% | Stripe, Salesforce, Braze, Gong |
| Boston | 396 | $142,500 | $95,000 to $194,438 | 85% | Datadog, ZoomInfo, Veeva, Tulip |
| Washington DC | 364 | $182,000 | $144,875 to $253,250 | 87% | Salesforce, Appian, Databricks, ZoomInfo |
| Austin | 340 | $152,750 | $93,875 to $209,875 | 65% | Braze, Navan, Sonar, Gong |
| Atlanta | 226 | $155,000 | $94,500 to $207,000 | 59% | Global Payments, Salesforce, New Relic, JFrog |
| Denver | 212 | $136,084 | $102,750 to $173,250 | 88% | Esri, Datadog, Klaviyo, Gusto |
| Seattle | 185 | $190,000 | $139,400 to $252,123 | 84% | Anthropic, Stripe, Nscale, Okta |
| Dallas | 172 | $162,700 | $114,613 to $242,391 | 64% | Qualtrics, Harvey, AppFolio, Toast |
| Los Angeles | 143 | $175,000 | $110,000 to $228,825 | 86% | Navan, Toast, Block, HeyGen |
The ranking by pay and the ranking by openings differ: Boston has many seats but a lower median, with twice New York's share of sales development seats; Seattle and Los Angeles have fewer seats but higher medians.
2. Cities outside the US
| City | Open tech sales roles | Most open roles |
|---|---|---|
| London | 1,315 | Salesforce, Databricks, Stripe, Palo Alto Networks |
| Singapore | 535 | Databricks, Airwallex, AlphaSense, Salesforce |
| Tokyo | 446 | Salesforce, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Zscaler |
| Paris | 354 | Salesforce, Mirakl, Riot, Pigment |
| Sydney | 314 | Salesforce, Stripe, Harvey, Airwallex |
| Dublin | 309 | Salesforce, Stripe, Notion, Datadog |
| Munich | 295 | Salesforce, Celonis, Palo Alto Networks, Databricks |
| Berlin | 275 | Doctolib, Formlabs, Superchat, Moss |
| Toronto | 260 | Salesforce, Sierra, Chatbase, MaintainX |
| Bengaluru | 247 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco, Celonis, Databricks |
London is the largest tech sales market outside the US by a wide margin, and the city where many American software companies base their European sales teams. Apart from Toronto (19%), fewer than one posting in fifty in these cities states pay, so ask for the base and the on-target earnings at the first conversation.
3. What each city hires for
| City | What stands out in its tech sales seats |
|---|---|
| Washington DC | Account executives are 49% of seats and sales engineers 16%, the most of any US city: public sector teams selling to government |
| Dublin | Sales development reps are 22% of seats, the highest share of any city: several US software companies run European sales development teams there |
| Bengaluru | Sales engineers are 32% of seats, the highest share of any city: large presales teams |
| Boston, Austin and Atlanta | Sales development reps are 14% of seats, twice New York's share: good cities for a first tech sales job |
| Munich and Singapore | Sales engineers are 21% and 20% of seats, among the highest shares |
| San Francisco and New York | The widest range of seats and the most employers, from first seats to leadership |
The guide How to get into tech sales covers the first seats, and Tech sales salary the pay by seat across the board.
4. Remote instead of a city
On the same day the board had 4,956 open remote tech sales roles, more than any single city; the remote tech sales jobs page lists them with the countries each hires in. Remote seats are most common in cybersecurity and industry software; the guide Best industries for sales jobs compares the share remote in each industry.
5. How these figures were counted
- The roles: every open sales role on this board on 2 November 2026 at a company whose field is AI and data, cloud and developer tools, cybersecurity, business software, industry software or fintech, whose posted location names the city or its metro area, read from each company's own careers system and checked every hour.
- The pay: the midpoint of each posting's own range on a full year's scale, one per posting after repeats of the same title at the same company are merged, and the median across the city's postings; cities where few postings state pay show none. "Up to" figures are left out.
- The seats: the kind of sales work each posting is filed under (account executive, sales development, sales engineering and the rest).
These figures describe one day; each city's tech sales page always shows the current roles and pay.
6. Quick answers
What is the best city for tech sales jobs? By openings, San Francisco and New York (about 1,700 tech sales roles each on 2 November 2026); by posted pay, San Francisco ($200,000 median), then Seattle and Washington DC.
Which city pays tech sales reps the most? San Francisco: a median of $200,000 a year across its tech sales postings, with the middle half between $151,813 and $254,125.
Where is the best city to start a tech sales career? Boston, Austin and Atlanta have twice New York's share of sales development seats (14% of their tech sales roles), and Dublin has the highest share of any city (22%).
What is the best city for tech sales outside the US? London, with 1,315 open tech sales roles, followed by Singapore (535) and Tokyo (446).
Can I do tech sales remotely instead? Yes: the board had 4,956 open remote tech sales roles that day, listed on the remote tech sales jobs page.