Throughline

Operations and sales

Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing in Washington, DC

22 postings read · sampled 2026-09-01 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 22 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education levels O*NET lists for this job
  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Some college, no degree

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 41-4012.00 · pulled 2026-09-01 · O*NET publishes the levels but no shares for this occupation, so they are shown in its order without percentages

This sample is small enough that one posting moves any percentage by more than a couple of points, so we are not calling anything low-signal here. Read the numbers above as a direction, not a measurement.

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$43,640
10th percentile
$74,730
median
$157,050
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anthropic · Verkada · Wiz · ElevenLabs · Toast · Applied Intuition · Brex · Databricks · Elastic · Figma · Flexport · Stripe

The same role elsewhere

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