Throughline

Operations and sales

Sales Representative of Services in the United States

175 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 64 employers · largest 7% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 175 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

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 reported by people doing this job
72%reported bachelor’s degree

Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed. Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

O*NET 41-3091.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

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.

$37,980
10th percentile
$69,990
median
$148,840
90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Fivetran · Elastic · Cloudflare · Datadog · Flexport · Notion · Verkada · Harvey · Stripe · Klaviyo · Cogent Talent Solutions · Cursor · Figma · GitLab · Ramp · Braze · PSI CRO · Spring Health · Toast · Vercel · Zenput · Zip · Attentive · Baseten · Charlie Health · Circle Logistics · Cribl · Faire · Instacart · MongoDB · Sollis Health · Achieve · Airtable · Anthropic · Artech Information System · Betterment · Brex · Carta · Checkr · Cognition · Culture Amp · Databricks · Dropbox · Everlaw · Figure AI · Gusto · incident.io · Lucid Motors · Manitoulin Group of Companies · Matic Insurance · McWane Inc · Mercury · Perplexity · Premier Truck Group · Scale AI · Sila Services · Slice · The Mural Group · Tomo · Twilio · Via · WorkOS · Zocdoc · Zum Services

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