Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Retail Sales Specialist: $38K median posted pay.
From 24 salary bands employers posted on 36 open retail sales specialist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Living Spaces | 24 | — |
| IDT | 8 | — |
| 2020 Companies | 2 | — |
| U.S. Marine Corps | 1 | — |
| Example Corp | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open retail sales specialist roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Retail Sales | 36 | — |
| Visual Merchandising | 26 | — |
| Service Standards | 24 | — |
| Loss Prevention | 24 | — |
| Assembly Line Work | 24 | — |
| Lead Generation | 8 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 7 | — |
| Hand and Power Tools | 2 | — |
| Customer Service | 2 | — |
| Quota Attainment | 2 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid22%8 roles
- On site78%28 roles
- Not stated0%0 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 36 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 24 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Retail Sales Specialist (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.