Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Sales Associate: $36K median posted pay.
From 1,021 salary bands employers posted on 2,677 open sales associate roles in retail. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2,672 | $36K | — |
| Senior | 5 | — (4 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Knitwellgroup | 622 | — |
| Carter's | 423 | — |
| Worldmarket | 254 | — |
| Jcrew | 254 | — |
| ALO | 228 | — |
| Toryburch | 195 | — |
| Crate & Barrel | CB2 | 115 | — |
| CSC Generation | 62 | — |
| Faherty Brand | 58 | — |
| Reformation | 55 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open sales associate roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Service | 1,497 | — |
| Visual Merchandising | 1,234 | — |
| Service Standards | 586 | — |
| Loyalty Programs | 507 | — |
| Loss Prevention | 419 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 256 | — |
| Translation and Interpreting | 179 | — |
| Store Management | 137 | — |
| Color Contrast | 135 | — |
| Accessibility | 106 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%9 roles
- Hybrid0%1 roles
- On site93%2,492 roles
- Not stated7%175 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 2,677 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 1,021 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Sales Associate (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.