Marketing, Sales & Service

(Retail and wholesale sales and services)

  • Do you sell advertising space for the school yearbook or newspaper?
  • Are you good at persuading people to do things?
  • Do you like to do public speaking or debating?
  • Are you good at organizing your own time?
  • Are you friendly and outgoing?

If you are interested in working in the Marketing, Sales, and Service cluster, you would help businesses sell products. You might advertise and promote products so customers would want to buy them. Or you might sell products and services directly to customers. Or you might use the Internet to reach customers.

Some of the Fastest Growing Occupations through 2014:

Occupation

Hourly Wages

Sales Managers

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$23.59
$43.19
$53.00

Marketing Managers

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$23.01
$40.35
$49.02

Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Manager

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$13.44
$26.44
$33.00

Real Estate Sales Agents

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$12.65
$21.33
$25.65

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$12.52
$24.21
$30.06

Slaughterers and Meat Packers

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$9.97
$12.33
$13.51

Advertising Sales Agents

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$9.45
$17.84
$22.04

Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$7.21
$9.40
$10.48

Retail Salespersons

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$6.94
$11.20
$13.34

Driver/Sales Workers

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$6.67
$13.03
$16.21

Packers and Packagers, Hand

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$6.23
$9.23
$10.73

Counter and Rental Clerks

Entry:
Average:
Experienced:

$6.18
$9.35
$10.93

Iowans describing his or her job will be available on the IPTV website at: www.careers.iptv.org
For other related occupations, job descriptions, hourly wages, and outlook refer to
the Iowa Career Resource Guide at http://www.iowa.gov/educate or http://iwin.iowaworkforce.org

Source: Iowa Career Resource Guide