Sales and related occupations

The Sales and related occupations section of the Occupational Outlook Handbook consists of:

Relative Pay

Metropolitan Area Relative Pay for Sales and related occupations

source: National Compensation Survey; about this section

• Union affiliation of employed wage & salary workers
• Median weekly earnings of full-time wage & salary workers

Sales and related occupations

Employed persons: 13,630,000
Members of unions		Represented by unions
Number	Percent	Number	Percent
451,000	3.3%	519,000	3.8%
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source: Current Population Survey; about this section

Employed wage and salary workers paid hourly rates and those with earnings at or below the Federal minimum wage, 2004

Sales and related occupations

source: Current Population Survey; about this section

Average hours worked per day at main job only by employed persons on weekdays and weekend days by occupation, 2004 annual averages

Occupation	Hours & percentage working by day
	Average day		Average weekday		Average Sat., Sun., and holiday
	Percent	Hours	Percent	Hours	Percent	Hours
Sales and related	66.8	7.04	77.4	7.36	42.3	5.70

Average hours worked per day at main job only by employed persons at workplace or home by occupation, 2004 annual averages

Occupation	Hours & percentage working at workplace or home
	At workplace		At home
	Percent	Hours	Percent	Hours
Sales and related	84.1	7.36	23.9	2.60

source: American Time Use Survey; about this section

Median years of tenure with current employer for employed wage and salary workers, 2004

Occupation	Employee Tenure, median (years)
Sales and related occupations	2.8

source: Current Population Survey; about this section

2004 Fatal occupational injuries by occupation and event or exposure

Occupation	Fatalities: Event or exposure
Occupation	Total	Tran.	Viol.	Cont.	Falls	Expo.	Fires
Sales and related occupations	352	105	193	11	27	10	5
Supervisors, sales workers	156	18	109	8	15	4	-
Retail sales workers	101	16	69	8	4	-	-
Sales representatives, services	21	15	4	-	-	-	-
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing	34	31	-	-	-	-	-
Other sales and related workers	40	25	9	3	-	-	-
Miscellaneous sales and related workers	26	18	3	3	-	-	-

source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities Program; about this section

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All full-time wage and salary workers	$622
— Members of unions	$623
— Represented by unions	$625
— Non-union	$622
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