Sales pay
What sales jobs pay, base and OTE.
It turns on the seat, the segment and how the plan splits base from variable. A first prospecting seat and a strategic closing seat can sit on the same team and post very different numbers. This page puts what employers actually post side by side.
, SalesJobs.Now carries 4,730 open sales roles, and the pay they post mostly falls between $139k and $346k a year, centering on $181k.
- Anthropic
- Glean
- Writer
- Plaid
- Amplitude
- Sierra
- Harness
- Cohere
- Vanta
- Decagon
- Cloudflare
- OpenAI
- Perplexity
- SentinelOne
- Ramp
- Scale AI
- Okta
- Grafana Labs
- ClickHouse
- Asana
- Harvey
- Clay
- Netskope
- SpotOn
- Vercel
- Notion
- Adyen
- Apollo.io
- Fivetran
- Neo4j
- Databricks
- New Relic
- Gong
- Intercom
- Snyk
- Temporal
- Verkada
- Figma
- Tanium
- Cresta
- Cato Networks
- AppLovin
- Anaplan
- Zscaler
- Snowflake
- Carta
- Pure Storage
- Motive
- Bloomreach
- HubSpot
- Box
- Payoneer
- Cursor
- ElevenLabs
- LaunchDarkly
- Miro
- Sanity
- Stripe
- Pigment
- Celonis
- Rubrik
- Redis
- Navan
- Abnormal Security
- Mixpanel
- Lightspeed
- Algolia
- Contentful
- Wiz
- Twilio
- Zocdoc
- MongoDB
- Toast
- Klaviyo
- KnowBe4
- Benchling
- G2
- Recorded Future
- Spotify
- Chainguard
- GitLab
- Block
- Aircall
- JFrog
- EliseAI
- OneTrust
- Sigma Computing
- Braze
- PagerDuty
- Elastic
- Smartsheet
- Gorgias
- Brex
- The Trade Desk
- Qualtrics
- Datadog
- Samsara
- 1Password
- Five9
- Similarweb
- DoorDash
- ZoomInfo
- Instacart
- Justworks
- AppFolio
Companies are listed by what an application there is worth to you, and one that pays us a fee for hires sent from here gets a lift in that order; the fee never touches the base or OTE a company offers.
The “usual band” spans from the 25th percentile of the midpoints of posted ranges (each counted as yearly pay, a rate per hour at 2,080 hours) to the 90th percentile of their top ends. It rests on 2,290 distinct salary figures from 102 employers, taken from the 4,730 roles open now, closing and leadership seats included. Posted pay on the board runs from $2.08k/yr to $840k/yr; both are genuine postings, and neither pulls the band. Each type of seat and each employer below is worked out the same way, from its own open roles. The live figures are refreshed every hour; other figures come from public sources, each tagged with how we know it. Last checked 30 Oct 2026. Our pay method. The written analysis (which seats pay best, how wide the spread runs, how many postings print a salary at all) is in the sales pay report; the employers ranked by pay have a page of their own, and the salary calculator turns these figures into a number for you.
By seat
8 types of sales seat, busiest first.
Find the seat closest to what you do now. Each card opens who is hiring for it and what they post.
Moving into sales from another field? The guides explain what each seat involves and who it suits, so you know what you are weighing before the pay.
Account Executive
Win new business: run a sale from the first meeting to the signed contract through discovery, demos, proposals and negotiation, by phone and video or in the field, with small businesses, mid-market companies or enterprises. Carries a quota, and pay is a base salary plus commission.
Median posting $177k/yr. Based on 795 distinct posted pay ranges, at 92 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 876 of the 1,675 openings here list no pay.
Sales Engineering & Solutions
The technical half of the sale: discovery of a buyer's systems, tailored demos, proofs of concept, architecture and security questions, side by side with account executives. Titles include sales engineer, solutions engineer or consultant, customer engineer and pre-sales architect.
Median posting $200k/yr. Based on 406 distinct posted pay ranges, at 78 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 485 of the 892 openings here list no pay.
Sales Leadership
Lead sellers: first-line sales managers, regional and area directors, heads of sales and vice presidents who hire and coach a team, own its forecast and answer for its number..
Median posting $222k/yr. Based on 248 distinct posted pay ranges, at 76 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 277 of the 526 openings here list no pay.
Customer Success
Keep customers getting value after the sale: onboarding, adoption plans, health checks and business reviews, catching risk before a renewal and passing growth to the account team. Some roles carry a retention or expansion target.
Median posting $147k/yr. Based on 188 distinct posted pay ranges, at 58 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 171 of the 362 openings here list no pay.
Partner, Channel & Alliances
Sell with and through other companies: resellers, distributors, managed service providers, consulting firms, cloud marketplaces and technology partners. Recruit partners, build pipeline together and run co-selling on joint deals.
Median posting $203k/yr. Based on 189 distinct posted pay ranges, at 64 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 161 of the 355 openings here list no pay.
Revenue Operations & Enablement
Run the system the sellers work in: territory and quota planning, forecasting, the CRM and sales tools, deal desk and pricing approvals, commission plans, and the enablement that trains new sellers and keeps the team current..
Median posting $170k/yr. Based on 199 distinct posted pay ranges, at 70 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 121 of the 320 openings here list no pay.
Sales Development (SDR & BDR)
Open the pipeline: research target accounts, reach decision-makers by phone, email and social, qualify inbound interest, and book first meetings for account executives. Often the first job in sales, measured on meetings held and pipeline created.
Median posting $75.2k/yr. Based on 135 distinct posted pay ranges, at 57 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 176 of the 313 openings here list no pay.
Account Management & Renewals
Grow the customers a company already has: renewals, upsells and expansion into new teams and products, commercial reviews and contract changes, with a book of named accounts and a revenue target of its own..
Median posting $152k/yr. Based on 102 distinct posted pay ranges, at 38 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 132 of the 235 openings here list no pay.
Estimate your pay
A starting point drawn from posted and compiled ranges, not an offer. Real pay depends on the company, the segment and how your plan is built.
Ballpark
$57.8k–$150k/yrBased on 135 distinct salary figures in live postings
Median posting $75.2k/yr. Based on 135 distinct posted pay ranges, at 57 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 176 of the 313 openings here list no pay. The first-seat and senior figures above are the bottom and top halves of this range.
Pay by company
A row tagged From live postings gives the usual posted pay (from the 25th percentile of the midpoints of posted ranges (each counted as yearly pay, a rate per hour at 2,080 hours) to the 90th percentile of their top ends) across that company’s open roles on 2026-10-30, and its figure opens those roles sorted by pay; the postings behind it are re-read every hour. Any other figure is a range compiled for that employer from public sources, dated on its company page by the day it was last checked (currently between 30 Oct 2026 and 30 Oct 2026; our sourcing notes).
Highest pay puts the 102 employers whose postings name a salary in the order of what a typical opening there pays, the same order as the pay ranking. Employers that post no figure come after them. Companies are listed by what an application there is worth to you, and one that pays us a fee for hires sent from here gets a lift in that order; the fee never touches the base or OTE a company offers.
Job seekers never pay to use this board. An Apply button opens the employer's own application page; only where a company pays us for a hire who came from here does that link carry our referral code, and the fee comes from the employer, never out of the base or OTE it offers you.