Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Key Holder: $37K median posted pay.
From 346 salary bands employers posted on 1,016 open key holder roles in retail. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BoxLunch & Hot Topic | 942 | — |
| Comoto | 42 | — |
| Toryburch | 11 | — |
| Deckers | 4 | — |
| UNTUCKit | 3 | — |
| Fast Retailing Group (retail us Theory) | 3 | — |
| Saks OFF 5TH | 3 | — |
| Vuori, Inc | 3 | — |
| VICI | 2 | — |
| Csc | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open key holder roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Store Management | 296 | — |
| Quota Attainment | 288 | — |
| Customer Service | 27 | — |
| Opening and Closing Procedures | 21 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 17 | — |
| Visual Merchandising | 17 | — |
| Loss Prevention | 13 | — |
| Translation and Interpreting | 11 | — |
| Cash Handling | 4 | — |
| Stock Replenishment | 3 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site100%1,011 roles
- Not stated0%5 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 1,016 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 346 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Key Holder (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in retail, 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.