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Acadia Pharmaceuticals
About Acadia Pharmaceuticals
Acadia's field force carries two neurology products, NUPLAZID for Parkinson's disease psychosis and DAYBUE for Rett syndrome, and is split into a neuroscience organisation and a rare disease one. On the neuroscience side, sales specialists call on prescribers in person and virtually, while a long-term care arm works the whole care team inside nursing facilities (physicians, NPs and PAs, consultant and dispensing pharmacists, facility leadership) and has to know Part A and Part D payer rules and specialty distribution; all five of their current rep titles are pitched at the executive level, which asks for 12 or more years of healthcare sales. Rare disease area business managers promote the Rett syndrome drug to key opinion leaders, centers of excellence and multidisciplinary care teams, report to a regional business leader and turn up at patient advocacy and weekend events. Two first-line manager seats are open as well, long-term care for the Midwest and neuroscience for the Pacific region, and in Munich a commercial operations lead (senior manager or associate director) is readying the German launch of the Rett product, from CRM and territory systems to sales targets and incentive plans. Ten of the 13 openings the board counts as sales are US field roles based at home in the territory with up to 80% travel by company car; the other three are the Munich post, an executive assistant in Zug and an HR executive director.
Typical pay, live
, SalesJobs.Now shows 13 open Acadia Pharmaceuticals sales roles; the postings mostly run from $140k to $210k a year, with $162k in the middle.
Acadia Pharmaceuticals sales openings
Board read 1 Nov 2026, 14:08 UTCExecutive Director, People Business Partnership (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Princeton, New Jersey +3 more· 1w agoDetails
$261,000–$326,300/yr- $144,000–$180,000/yr
Neuroscience Regional Sales Manager - Pacific (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · South San Francisco, California, United States· 1w agoDetails
$168,000–$210,000/yr- $124,000–$155,000/yr
- $124,000–$155,000/yr
- $124,000–$155,000/yr
Executive Assistant and Operations Manager (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Zug, Switzerland· 3w agoDetails
Senior Area Business Manager - Miami, FL (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Remote· 4w agoDetails
$144,000–$180,000/yrLong-Term Care Regional Sales Manager, Mid West (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$148,000–$185,000/yrSr. Area Business Manager, Des Moines, IA (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$156,000–$195,000/yr- $124,000–$155,000/yr
- $124,000–$155,000/yr
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Acadia Pharmaceuticals as an employer
Neuroscience and rare disease drugmaker whose sales hiring is senior US field reps and first-line managers, with a German launch team forming. Posted pay: $140k–$210k/yr, midpoint $162k/yr.
Hiring now, with pay read from the salaries its own postings state13 sales openings at Acadia Pharmaceuticals, as its own board showed them 1 Nov 2026.
Base salary with a discretionary bonus, new-hire and ongoing equity, a 401(k) matched 1:1 up to 5%, an employee stock purchase plan and a company car for field reps; no posting describes a commission plan.
US field territories, worked from home: Dallas and Austin in Texas, Miami, Omaha and Des Moines, Louisville with Evansville, Bloomington and Indianapolis, the Washington, D.C. area with northern Virginia and southern Maryland, Richmond, Charlottesville and Virginia Beach, east Tennessee (Knoxville, Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol), a Midwest manager region from Minneapolis and Chicago to St. Louis and Nashville, and a Pacific region covering the Bay Area, Seattle, Portland and Boise. Abroad: Munich for the German launch role, plus an executive assistant in Zug, Switzerland.
Pay at Acadia Pharmaceuticals
From today's postings, 1 Nov 2026Midpoint $162k/yr across 11 openings with posted pay. Posted figures range from $124k/yr to $326k/yr.
Based on 11 distinct posted pay ranges, at this company, every range put on a yearly basis (a rate per hour × 2,080 hours). 2 of the 13 openings here list no pay.
| Sales role | Openings | Typical base | Top posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales leadership | 7 | $163k–$268k/yr | $326k/yr |
| AE | 5 | $140k–$155k/yr | $155k/yr |
| RevOps | 1 | No pay posted | None posted |
Best-paid Acadia Pharmaceuticals openings on the board
All 13 of its openings, sorted by payExecutive Director, People Business Partnership (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Princeton, New Jersey +3 more· 1w agoDetails
$261,000–$326,300/yrNeuroscience Regional Sales Manager - Pacific (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · South San Francisco, California, United States· 1w agoDetails
$168,000–$210,000/yrSr. Area Business Manager, Des Moines, IA (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$156,000–$195,000/yrLong-Term Care Regional Sales Manager, Mid West (shows the role here)
Sales leadership · Remote· 1mo agoDetails
$148,000–$185,000/yr- $144,000–$180,000/yr
Typical means 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, the yardstick behind every list on this site. How we source and grade each salary figure.
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Is Acadia Pharmaceuticals a good company to sell for?
Neuroscience and rare disease drugmaker whose sales hiring is senior US field reps and first-line managers, with a German launch team forming.
Is Acadia Pharmaceuticals still an active employer?
Yes. Neuroscience and rare disease drugmaker whose sales hiring is senior US field reps and first-line managers, with a German launch team forming. How its pay is structured: Base salary with a discretionary bonus, new-hire and ongoing equity, a 401(k) matched 1:1 up to 5%, an employee stock purchase plan and a company car for field reps; no posting describes a commission plan.
What does a sales job at Acadia Pharmaceuticals pay?
On Acadia Pharmaceuticals's board today, the 11 openings that post pay put the typical band at $140k–$210k/yr and the midpoint at $162k/yr. Posted figures range from $124k/yr up to $326k/yr.
Is selling for Acadia Pharmaceuticals worth it?
Posted pay at Acadia Pharmaceuticals: $140k–$210k/yr, midpoint $162k/yr. Healthcare and life sciences sales suit reps who learn clinical detail fast and can work a hospital or lab territory.
How is Acadia Pharmaceuticals's sales comp put together?
Base salary with a discretionary bonus, new-hire and ongoing equity, a 401(k) matched 1:1 up to 5%, an employee stock purchase plan and a company car for field reps; no posting describes a commission plan.
Where are Acadia Pharmaceuticals's sales roles based?
US field territories, worked from home: Dallas and Austin in Texas, Miami, Omaha and Des Moines, Louisville with Evansville, Bloomington and Indianapolis, the Washington, D.C. area with northern Virginia and southern Maryland, Richmond, Charlottesville and Virginia Beach, east Tennessee (Knoxville, Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol), a Midwest manager region from Minneapolis and Chicago to St. Louis and Nashville, and a Pacific region covering the Bay Area, Seattle, Portland and Boise. Abroad: Munich for the German launch role, plus an executive assistant in Zug, Switzerland.
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