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title: "Sales Associate job postings: what employers ask for (2026)"
description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/sales-associate"
canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/postings/sales-associate
last_updated: 2026-09-10
---

# Sales Associate job postings: what employers ask for (2026)

> Live sales associate job postings measured from JobsPipe's index: <0.5% remote, 37.5% disclose pay, seniority mix, top skills and the industries hiring. Shares only, reproducible through the API.

**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/postings/sales-associate

This page reads every active posting whose normalized title is Sales Associate across the ten boards JobsPipe collects and reports what those employers ask for: the seniority they target, whether the role is remote, whether pay is disclosed, the skills named in the text, and the industries, countries and company sizes behind the postings.

<0.5% of these postings are marked remote, 37.5% state a salary or range, the most common seniority label is entry level at 19.6%. Postings with no seniority label are counted in the denominator, so the seniority shares do not sum to one.

## Headline shares

- **Remote:** <0.5%
- **Pay disclosed:** 37.5%

## Seniority stated in the posting

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Entry level | 19.6% |
| Mid level | 2.5% |
| Senior | <0.5% |
| Lead or manager | <0.5% |

## Skills named in the text (top twelve)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| customer-support | 62.4% |
| communication | 44.6% |
| teamwork | 17.4% |
| leadership | 17.1% |
| compliance | 16.4% |
| adaptability | 10.8% |
| attention-to-detail | 10.3% |
| excel | 8.0% |
| inventory-management | 7.7% |
| creativity | 7.1% |
| mentoring | 6.8% |
| compensation-and-benefits | 5.8% |

## Job function

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Retail | 63.4% |
| Sales | 21.3% |
| Sales and Business Development | 12.5% |
| Other | 1.4% |
| General Business and Customer Service | <0.5% |
| Sales, General Business, and Finance | <0.5% |

## Employer industry (ISIC division)

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Retail trade | 25.3% |
| Apparel | 7.0% |
| Motor vehicle trade | 2.0% |
| Food service | 1.7% |
| Wholesale trade | 1.2% |
| Chemicals | 0.9% |
| Employment and staffing | 0.8% |
| Healthcare | 0.8% |

## Country

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| United States | 61.7% |
| Canada | 10.1% |
| Philippines | 3.2% |
| France | 3.2% |
| Italy | 3.1% |
| United Kingdom | 2.9% |
| Netherlands | 2.7% |
| Germany | 2.0% |

## Employer size, where known

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| 1-50 employees | 0.9% |
| 51-200 employees | 1.4% |
| 201-1000 employees | 3.0% |
| 1000+ employees | 28.9% |

## Employment type

| Cut | Share |
|---|---|
| Full-time | 49.0% |
| Part-time | 37.9% |

## Method

Denominator: active postings on the ten collected boards, grouped by canonical title (deduplicated by posting id). Counted on 2026-09-09. Postings are deduplicated by id, filtered to those not yet recorded as closed, and grouped on the field named in each heading. Only shares are published.

Reproduce the underlying rows:

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/jobs/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOBSPIPE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"active","limit":25,"job_title_or":["sales associate"]}'
```

## FAQ

### What share of sales associate job postings are remote?

<0.5% of the active postings on this page carry a remote flag. The flag is read from the posting itself, so hybrid roles that never say remote are counted as on-site. Filter the API with remote set to true and the same scope to reproduce the figure.

### How many sales associate postings disclose salary?

37.5% state a salary or a range in the posting text or structured fields. Disclosure varies more by board and by jurisdiction than by role, so compare the figure with the board-level shares on the sources pages before reading it as a market signal.

### Which skills appear most in sales associate postings?

The most named skills are customer-support (62.4%), communication (44.6%), teamwork (17.4%), leadership (17.1%), compliance (16.4%). Skills are extracted from the posting text against a curated lexicon, and a posting counts once per skill it names, so the shares overlap.

### Which industries hire the most sales associate roles?

By ISIC division, the largest shares are Retail trade (25.3%), Apparel (7.0%), Motor vehicle trade (2.0%). Industry is resolved from the employer's classification where known, and postings without a classification are excluded from this cut.

### Which functions are employers in Sales Associate hiring for?

The largest functions by share of postings are Retail (63.4%), Sales (21.3%), Sales and Business Development (12.5%), Other (1.4%). Function is assigned from the normalized title and the posting text.

### Where do these numbers come from?

From JobsPipe's live index of postings on the ten boards it collects, deduplicated by posting id and counted on 2026-09-09. Only shares are published; the underlying counts stay private. Every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API with the filters shown on this page.

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