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Pharmaceutical Sales Jobs

, SalesJobs.Now lists 1,323 open pharmaceutical sales roles on , among them Amylyx, Deciphera and Gilead; the usual posted band is $125k to $254k a year, $171k at the median, and one role at IQVIA goes up to $470k a year.

See 1,323 pharmaceutical sales roles
$125k–$254k/yrtypical posted paymedian posting $171k/yrtop posting $470k/yr at IQVIA

Based on 791 distinct posted pay ranges, at 29 companies, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 529 of the 1,323 openings here list no pay.

Open sales seats at companies that make drugs and biologics (specialty, oncology, rare disease, hospital, vaccines and primary care medicines), read from each company's own careers page. Each employer's careers system is read again every hour, so a seat it fills drops off this page at the next read.

Pharmaceutical sales roles open now

Updated 2 Nov 2026, 03:08 UTC

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Ask what share of the territory's prescribers you can see in person, how the bonus is measured (market share, prescriptions or revenue) and paid, and how the product's place with insurers in your territory affects what you can sell.

Posted pay for each kind of seat

Each row's band comes from that kind's own open postings in this market, by the method behind every band on the board (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); a row needs three distinct posted ranges before it gets one. Every figure is yearly pay in US dollars; where a posting quotes a rate per hour, week or month, it is multiplied by 2,080, 52 or 12 to make a full-time year (40 hours over 52 weeks).

Kind of workOpen seatsTypical posted payTop posting
Sales Development (SDR & BDR)10$62.4k–$152k/yr$200k/yr
Account Executive637$125k–$220k/yr$362k/yr
Account Management & Renewals440$171k–$257k/yr$470k/yr
Customer Success4Not enough ranges$111k/yr
Sales Engineering & Solutions17Not enough ranges$100k/yr
Partner, Channel & Alliances20$208k–$330k/yr$362k/yr
Revenue Operations & Enablement38$180k–$288k/yr$327k/yr
Sales Leadership157$198k–$286k/yr$434k/yr

Requirements named in the postings

Tallied from the requirement lines of 88 out of 1,323 open pharmaceutical sales roles, the lines a role's pop-up quotes from the posting itself. A seat is counted once, under the lowest degree it accepts.

2

Ask for a master's

67

Ask for a bachelor's (or any degree)

19

Name no degree

  • State a minimum of years66
  • Mention travel44
  • Name a driver's license for the territory9
  • Want a second selling language4
  • Name a licence to hold3
  • Tie the seat to where you live3
  • Ask for a closing or quota record1
  • Ask for technical skills (SQL, Python and the like)1

Postings that put a number on experience want 5 years at the median.

Employers hiring for pharmaceutical sales

EmployerOpen seatsPosted pay
Amylyx logoAmylyx9$225k–$253k/yr
Deciphera logoDeciphera6$170k–$286k/yr
Gilead logoGilead17$178k–$293k/yr
Mineralys Therapeutics logoMineralys Therapeutics27$105k–$215k/yr
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals logoKiniksa Pharmaceuticals13$180k–$270k/yr
Sanofi logoSanofi41$90k–$304k/yr
Mirum Pharmaceuticals logoMirum Pharmaceuticals44$180k–$200k/yr
Compass Pathways logoCompass Pathways47$165k–$195k/yr
Invivyd logoInvivyd6$120k–$245k/yr
Sobi logoSobi17$170k–$220k/yr
BridgeBio Pharma logoBridgeBio Pharma6$155k–$265k/yr
Amgen logoAmgen196$60k–$409k/yr
Vertex Pharmaceuticals logoVertex Pharmaceuticals15$122k–$348k/yr
GSK logoGSK121$99k–$311k/yr
Biogen logoBiogen9$114k–$270k/yr
Merck logoMerck40$39.9k–$247k/yr
Acadia Pharmaceuticals logoAcadia Pharmaceuticals10$124k–$210k/yr
Axsome Therapeutics logoAxsome Therapeutics73$100k–$235k/yr
Bristol Myers Squibb logoBristol Myers Squibb12$138k–$207k/yr
Corcept Therapeutics logoCorcept Therapeutics11$140k–$281k/yr
AstraZeneca logoAstraZeneca52$76.9k–$327k/yr
Regeneron logoRegeneron22$103k–$305k/yr
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals logoTarsus Pharmaceuticals7$149k–$208k/yr
Pfizer logoPfizer12$108k–$294k/yr
Novartis logoNovartis110$143k–$345k/yr
M3 USA logoM3 USA19Not posted
Redcare Pharmacy logoRedcare Pharmacy7Not posted
IQVIA logoIQVIA178$41.6k–$470k/yr
Elanco logoElanco48$41.6k–$172k/yr
Viatris logoViatris136$41k–$165k/yr
Zoetis logoZoetis12$54.1k–$200k/yr

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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.

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Frequently asked questions

How much does a pharmaceutical sales seat pay?

The open pharmaceutical sales roles carry 791 separate posted pay ranges. The middle of that market is $125k–$254k/yr and its median $171k/yr, each figure the range a posting states, base or OTE as it labels it. The richest posting tops out at $470k/yr, at IQVIA. 529 of the 1,323 leave pay out, which usually means the number comes up at the recruiter screen.

Do you need a science degree to sell pharmaceuticals?

Rarely a requirement, often a plus. Specialty and rare disease seats ask for years of selling to the same kind of specialist, and launch seats ask for a record with a new product; entry seats ask for a record of beating a number and a clean driving record. A degree in the life sciences helps you talk to physicians, but the screen is mostly on selling within compliance. Counting the requirement lines of 88 open pharmaceutical sales roles, 2 a master's or an MBA, 67 a bachelor's or some degree and 19 mention no degree at all.

What does a pharmaceutical sales rep do now?

Educates prescribers about a medicine within what its label and the law allow, in a territory of clinics and hospitals, and increasingly through video calls and the practice staff who manage access. Most open seats today are specialty ones (oncology, immunology, neurology, rare disease) that call on a short list of specialists and work with payers, specialty pharmacies and patient support teams; primary care seats are fewer than a decade ago.

Are these openings real?

Each one is read from the employer's own careers system (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and the like), and Apply takes you to that company's application. Amylyx, Deciphera, Gilead and Mineralys Therapeutics are among the employers on this page. A real employer never charges you for training, a starter kit or a background check; the scam checker lists the other warning signs of a fake offer.

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