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What is this page & how do I use it?

This is a sector view — every sales career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.

How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.

Careers
21
Median score
34
Avg growth
-1.3%
Wide moats
0/21

Every sales career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $56k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)

CareerRatingMoatGrowthPay
Sales engineers4.5 · 59🛡 Narrow+5.5%$122k
Real estate brokers3.5 · 47+3.3%$72k
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products3.5 · 46🛡 Narrow+1.9%$100k
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents3.5 · 46+3.3%$78k
Models3.5 · 45-0.5%$90k
Insurance sales agents3.5 · 43+3.7%$60k
Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel3.0 · 42+3.1%$66k
Real estate sales agents3.0 · 41🛡 Narrow+3.1%$56k
First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers3.0 · 40🛡 Narrow+0%$84k
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products3.0 · 36+0.3%$67k
Travel agents2.5 · 34+2.2%$48k
Parts salespersons2.5 · 33🛡 Narrow+3.1%$37k
Counter and rental clerks2.5 · 32+3.2%$39k
Advertising sales agents2.0 · 29🛡 Narrow-6.4%$61k
Demonstrators and product promoters2.0 · 27🛡 Narrow-0.1%$38k
First-line supervisors of retail sales workers2.0 · 25-5%$47k
Retail salespersons2.0 · 24🛡 Narrow-0.5%$35k
Gambling change persons and booth cashiers1.0 · 19-6.4%$35k
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers1.0 · 18🛡 Narrow-10%$35k
Cashiers1.0 · 17-9.9%$31k
Telemarketers1.0 · 16-22.1%$34k