Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Account Executive: $125K median posted pay.
From 982 salary bands employers posted on 2,358 open account executive roles in sales. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 396 | $135K | — |
| Principal | 15 | $209K | — |
| Mid | 10 | — (5 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 9 | — (2 of 8 bands) | — |
| Management | 2 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Intern | 1 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Salesforce | 115 | — |
| Stripe | 93 | — |
| Tmobile | 89 | — |
| Cisco | 73 | — |
| Braze | 63 | — |
| Airwallex | 43 | — |
| Costar | 42 | — |
| Zscaler | 35 | — |
| Highwire | 31 | — |
| Everpure | 26 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open account executive roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Lead Generation | 1,089 | — |
| CRM Systems | 780 | — |
| Account Management | 500 | — |
| Forecasting | 480 | — |
| Quota Attainment | 466 | — |
| Procurement | 344 | — |
| Solution Selling | 341 | — |
| Agent Design | 274 | — |
| Product Demonstrations | 230 | — |
| Customer Service | 227 | — |
Where the work is
21% of these roles are remote.
- Remote21%494 roles
- Hybrid11%250 roles
- On site58%1,377 roles
- Not stated10%237 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 2,358 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 982 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Account Executive (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in sales, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.