United States · USD

Sales Manager salary in United States

In the U.S., sales managers (SOC 11-2022) earned a median $148,270 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 37 job ads for U.S. jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $190,000. The middle half of those ads list $125,000 to $320,000, based on 37 salaries from 26 employers, updated 22 Oct 2026.

Official benchmark · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Sales Managers: official U.S. pay, May 2025

In the U.S., sales managers (SOC 11-2022) earned a median $148,270 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 37 job ads for U.S. jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $190,000.

10th percentile
$73,170
25th percentile
$100,360
Median
$148,270
75th percentile
$207,340
90th percentile
$290,540

Jobiba's job-ad median is 28% above the BLS median. The two figures measure different things. Jobiba's counts only job ads that state pay, so it reflects the employers that publish pay ranges; the largest in this sample are Datadog, Okta and Anthropic. BLS surveys employers of every size and industry and covers every worker in the occupation, not only open jobs.

Occupation: Sales Managers (SOC 11-2022) · 637,080 jobs · per year, before tax. Annual wages of all wage and salary workers in the occupation across the U.S., all industries and employer sizes (self-employed excluded) — not only jobs that are advertised. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (public domain), retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Median in job ads
$190,000
a year
12-month range
High $215,250
Aug 2026
Low $133,000 · Sep 2026
Salaries
37
from 26 employers
Last updated
22 Oct 2026
12-month window to 22 Oct 2026

Salary range

Where listed pay sits

USD · per year
10th percentile
$100,000
25th percentile
$125,000
Median
$190,000
75th percentile
$320,000
90th percentile
$342,000

37 salaries · 107 live United States jobs. Box: the middle half of salaries · line: the median · whisker: 10th to 90th percentile.

Based on 37 salary-listed job postings from the last 12 months · last updated 22 Oct 2026

Salary brackets

Sales Manager salary brackets in United States

How the 37 comparable salary observations behind the percentile band above spread across USD pay brackets, annualised and United States only. Shares are of observations, not of employers.

Sales Manager salary observations by pay bracket in United States, USD per year
Pay bracketRelative sizeShare and count of listings
Under $100K8% 3 listings
$100K–$150K27% 10 listings
$150K–$200KMedian here22% 8 listings
$200K–$250K5% 2 listings
$250K–$300K3% 1 listing
$300K–$350K30% 11 listings
$350K and over5% 2 listings

Brackets are equal-width and rounded; the open-ended rows collect the lowest and highest observations, and the bracket that holds the median is highlighted. Same cohort and outlier rules as the percentiles above.

Skills and pay

Skills linked to higher Sales Manager pay in United States

How much higher or lower the median is for job posts that mention a skill. It shows an association, not a guarantee: better-paid jobs often bundle several scarce skills with senior scope. Skills with fewer than 8 salaries are left out.

Skills and their pay premium for Sales Manager in United States
SkillPay premium chartPay premium
recruitmentmedian $257,625 · 8 salariesup +35.6%
aimedian $211,125 · 30 salariesup +11.1%
salesforcemedian $170,000 · 15 salariesdown −10.5%

Pay listed by employers

Latest Sales Manager jobs that show their pay in United States

Pay as the employer wrote it, per year: individual job posts, not averages.

Evidence

Where these numbers come from

37 salaries from 26 employers, posted between 22 Oct 2025 and 22 Oct 2026. Last updated 22 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page comes from this one group of salaries; the median is the middle value, not the average.

  • Employer hiring-system feeds 92%
  • Pay read from posting text 8%
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Live jobs

Sales Manager jobs in United States

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Reading this number

What this number does—and does not—mean

The range summarizes salary-listed Jobiba jobs in United States. It is not a promise of what one employer will pay, and it is not converted from another country's currency. Experience, city, seniority, skills and company can move an individual offer materially.

Frequently asked questions

Sales Manager salary in United States: common questions

What is the average Sales Manager salary in United States in 2026?

In the U.S., sales managers (SOC 11-2022) earned a median $148,270 a year in May 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; pay listed in 37 job ads for U.S. jobs on Jobiba from the last 12 months has a median of $190,000. The middle half of those job ads pay between $125,000 and $320,000 a year (25th to 75th percentile).

Why is Sales Manager pay in job ads different from the BLS figure?

Jobiba's job-ad median is 28% above the BLS median. The two figures measure different things. Jobiba's counts only job ads that state pay, so it reflects the employers that publish pay ranges; the largest in this sample are Datadog, Okta and Anthropic. BLS surveys employers of every size and industry and covers every worker in the occupation, not only open jobs.

How does Jobiba calculate Sales Manager salary in United States?

From 37 salary-listed Jobiba job postings from the last 12 months that state an explicit salary, currency and pay period. Hourly, daily and monthly pay is converted to an annual figure, implausible values and outliers are removed, and currencies are never mixed or converted. Jobiba publishes the median and 25th–75th percentile range only when enough comparable postings exist.

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