How people get into Sales Managers

What it takes to do this work

We do not hold a licence requirement for this one. That usually means the route in is hiring and training rather than a classroom, but we would rather tell you we cannot see one than promise there is nothing to it.

The jobs people hold first

These are the jobs people hold before moving into this one. Doing one of them is not the only way in, and it is not a requirement. It is the route the data can actually see.

Work people come from	Typical pay	Step up	Evidence
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products No licence we can see I do this now →	$74,000	+$63,410	Named career step
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers No licence we can see I do this now →	$84,920	+$52,490	Named career step
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel No licence we can see I do this now →	$65,850	+$71,560	Named career step
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products No licence we can see I do this now →	$104,900	+$32,510	Named career step
General and Operations Managers No licence we can see I do this now →	$120,480	+$16,930	Named career step
Sales Engineers No licence we can see I do this now →	$98,820	+$38,590	Named career step
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists No licence we can see I do this now →	$65,200	+$72,210	Named career step
Advertising and Promotions Managers No licence we can see I do this now →	$116,200	+$21,210	Named career step

Named career step Lightcast lists this as a career step from your kind of work, based on the skills the two jobs share and what local employers hire for. It is the strongest signal we have, though it is not a record of individual people moving.

We keep those labels apart because they are different strength claims, and none of them means we watched individual people make the move.

Routes that already pay more than sales managers are left out, because those are side moves rather than ways in. So are routes needing more schooling than you told us about.

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