Sales Managers
Tasks Include:
- Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service.
- Monitor customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts.
- Direct and coordinate activities involving sales of manufactured products, services, commodities, real estate, or other subjects of sale.
- Determine price schedules and discount rates.
- Review operational records and reports to project sales and determine profitability.
- Direct, coordinate, and review sales and service accounting and record-keeping, as well as receiving and shipping.
- Confer or consult with department heads to plan advertising services and to secure information on equipment and customer specifications.
- Advise dealers and distributors on policies and operating procedures to ensure functional effectiveness of business.
- Prepare budgets and approve budget expenditures.
- Represent company at trade association meetings to promote products.
- Plan and direct staffing, training, and performance evaluations to develop and control sales and service programs.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +10.4%
National: +5.1%
Education
Bachelor's Degree
Job Zone:
Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Highest ($50,000 and up)
Median Earnings:
National
$130,600.00
State
$165,160.00
Regional
Sales Managers
Description
Career Cluster: | Marketing Sales & Service |
Plan, direct, or coordinate the actual distribution or movement of a product or service to the customer. Coordinate sales distribution by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals and establish training programs for sales representatives. Analyze sales statistics gathered by staff to determine sales potential and inventory requirements and monitor the preferences of customers.
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Education
Required Level of Education
- Bachelor's Degree = 65.22%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 13.04%
- Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Baccalaureate degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees carrying the title of Master. = 8.70%
- Master's Degree = 8.70%
- Some College Courses = 4.35%
Related Work Experience
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 34.78%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 26.09%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 13.04%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 13.04%
- Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years = 8.70%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 4.35%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 26.09%
- Up to and including 1 month = 21.74%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 17.39%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 17.39%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 8.70%
- None = 4.35%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 4.35%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 30.43%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 26.09%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 17.39%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 13.04%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 8.70%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 4.35%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Sales Managers
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service.
- Monitor customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts.
- Direct and coordinate activities involving sales of manufactured products, services, commodities, real estate, or other subjects of sale.
- Determine price schedules and discount rates.
- Review operational records and reports to project sales and determine profitability.
- Direct, coordinate, and review sales and service accounting and record-keeping, as well as receiving and shipping.
- Confer or consult with department heads to plan advertising services and to secure information on equipment and customer specifications.
- Advise dealers and distributors on policies and operating procedures to ensure functional effectiveness of business.
- Prepare budgets and approve budget expenditures.
- Represent company at trade association meetings to promote products.
- Plan and direct staffing, training, and performance evaluations to develop and control sales and service programs.
- Oversee regional and local sales managers and their staffs.
- Direct clerical staff to keep records of export correspondence, bid requests, and credit collections, and to maintain current information on tariffs, licenses, and restrictions.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Visit franchised dealers to stimulate interest in establishment or expansion of leasing programs.
- Confer with potential customers regarding equipment needs, and advise customers on types of equipment to purchase.
- Direct foreign sales and service outlets of an organization.
- Assess marketing potential of new and existing store locations, considering statistics and expenditures.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Desktop computers
- Notebook computers
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
- Scanners
- Tablet computers
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- Hewlett-Packard HP TCM software
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Contact management software
- Scheduling software
- Charting software
- Microsoft Office Visio
- Customer relationship management CRM software
- Avidian Technologies Prophet
- Customer relationship management CRM software
- Eden Sales Manager
- FrontRange Solutions Goldmine software
- Maximizer Software Maximizer Enterprise
- NetSuite NetCRM
- Sage ACT!
- Salesforce.com Salesforce CRM
- Software on Sailboats Desktop Sales Manager
- Vanguard Software Vanguard Sales Manager
- Data base user interface and query software
- Data entry software
- Microsoft Access
- Development environment software
- Eclipse software
- Electronic mail software
- Email software
- IBM Lotus Notes
- Microsoft Outlook
- Human resources software
- Workforce management software
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Inventory management software
- Inventory software
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Additional Resources
For information about careers and certification in sales and marketing management contact:
Sales and Marketing Executives International
5500 Interstate North Pkwy.
No. 545
Atlanta, GA 30328-4662
http://www.smei.org
For information about careers in advertising management contact:
American Association of Advertising Agencies
405 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10174-1801
http://www.aaaa.org
Information about careers and certification in public relations management is available from:
Public Relations Society of America
33 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003-2376
http://www.prsa.org
The data sources for the information displayed here include: Virginia Career VIEW Research. (Using onet28)
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Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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92.50 | Sales and Marketing | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. |
87.00 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
83.00 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
75.00 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
58.75 | Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
54.25 | Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
54.25 | Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. |
52.25 | Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
51.00 | Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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78.00 | Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
75.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
75.00 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
72.00 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
72.00 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
72.00 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
72.00 | Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
72.00 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
72.00 | Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
68.75 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
68.75 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
68.75 | Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
68.75 | Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
68.75 | Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
65.50 | Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
65.50 | Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. |
65.50 | Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
65.50 | Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
62.50 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
56.25 | Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
50.00 | Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. |
50.00 | Management of Financial Resources | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
75.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
75.00 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
75.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
72.00 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
72.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
72.00 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
72.00 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
68.75 | Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
68.75 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
68.75 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
65.50 | Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
59.50 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
56.25 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
56.25 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
53.00 | Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
53.00 | Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
50.00 | Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
92.50 | Selling or Influencing Others | Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions. |
84.00 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
83.75 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
83.75 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
83.25 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
82.50 | Coaching and Developing Others | Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
81.75 | Working with Computers | Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
80.75 | Developing and Building Teams | Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
80.50 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
79.50 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
78.50 | Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates | Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
78.25 | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others | Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
77.25 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
77.25 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
77.25 | Developing Objectives and Strategies | Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
76.00 | Providing Consultation and Advice to Others | Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
74.00 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
72.75 | Analyzing Data or Information | Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
70.75 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
68.50 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
67.50 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
66.25 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
66.00 | Monitoring and Controlling Resources | Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money. |
65.25 | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others | Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
58.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
58.75 | Staffing Organizational Units | Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization. |
57.50 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
55.50 | Documenting/Recording Information | Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
54.25 | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information | Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
52.25 | Performing Administrative Activities | Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
94.50 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
91.00 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
89.25 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
89.25 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
89.25 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
88.00 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
87.00 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
83.75 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
83.75 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
82.50 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
82.50 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
78.50 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
78.25 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
77.25 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
70.75 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
68.50 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
77.83 | Independence | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. |
75.00 | Working Conditions | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions. |
72.17 | Achievement | Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement. |
72.17 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
61.17 | Recognition | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status. |
50.00 | Relationships | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
100.00 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
100.00 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
96.60 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
87.00 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
86.40 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
85.20 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
84.40 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
82.80 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
82.60 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
81.80 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
77.40 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
74.60 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
74.00 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
74.00 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
73.00 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
73.00 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
73.00 | Spend Time Sitting | How much does this job require sitting? |
70.00 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
66.40 | In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment | How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or equipment (e.g., car)? |
64.60 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
64.40 | Frequency of Conflict Situations | How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? |
60.00 | Public Speaking | How often do you have to perform public speaking in this job? |
58.20 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
53.00 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
51.80 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
51.40 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
- Examples
- Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators.
- Education
- Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $61,040.00 | $130,600.00 | $180,390.00 |
Virginia | $73,080.00 | $165,160.00 | $219,950.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $114,936.57 | $206,413.43 | $271,015.09 |
Bay Consortium | $79,974.94 | $165,118.51 | $226,450.51 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $66,985.06 | $130,800.41 | $180,795.71 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $71,023.68 | $133,921.16 | $185,806.25 |
Crater Area | $59,167.87 | $137,252.01 | $221,942.75 |
Greater Peninsula | $69,360.30 | $138,202.51 | $189,148.32 |
Hampton Roads | $72,829.84 | $136,111.81 | $195,625.41 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $81,429.25 | $131,118.60 | $183,000.63 |
Northern Virginia | $116,112.46 | $206,293.09 | $260,487.13 |
Piedmont Workforce | $77,858.74 | $135,999.62 | $200,573.75 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $72,660.55 | $136,247.45 | $210,799.83 |
Southwestern Virginia | $84,276.69 | $145,389.42 | $225,935.48 |
West Piedmont | $73,123.56 | $145,108.96 | $227,641.70 |
Western Virginia | $72,868.60 | $128,545.51 | $184,776.20 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 469,800 | 493,600 | +5.1% |
Virginia | 6,438 | 7,106 | +10.4% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | 661 | 722 | +9.2% |
Bay Consortium | 148 | 168 | +13.5% |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 1,009 | 1,087 | +7.7% |
Central VA/Region2000 | 115 | 125 | +8.7% |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | 262 | 280 | +6.9% |
Hampton Roads | 658 | 687 | +4.4% |
New River/Mt. Rogers | 109 | 114 | +4.6% |
Northern Virginia | 2,820 | 3,155 | +11.9% |
Piedmont Workforce | 152 | 166 | +9.2% |
Shenandoah Valley | 234 | 274 | +17.1% |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | 230 | 237 | +3.0% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Artist Relationship Manager
- Auto Dealer
- Auto Dealer (Automobile Dealer)
- Business Developer
- Business Development Director
- Business Development Executive
- Business Development Officer
- Business Development Specialist
- Car Dealer
- Channel Manager
- Clothier
- Commercial Director
- Contracts Specialist
- Dealership Manager
- Department Store Manager
- Director of Business Development
- Director of Sales
- Director of Sales and Marketing
- Director of Sales Marketing
- District Manager
- District Sales Manager
- Division Head
- Division Manager
- E-Commerce Director
- Export Manager
- Field Representative
- General Manager
- Global Account Manager (GAM)
- Hotel Sales Manager
- Import Export Manager
- Importer Exporter
- Inside Sales Manager
- International Trade Specialist
- Liquidator
- Marketing Sales Supervisor
- Product Distribution Specialist
- Professional Equipment Sales and Service Manager
- Regional Manager
- Regional Sales Manager
- Retail Chain Store Area Supervisor
- Retail District Manager
- Sales Account Manager
- Sales Administrator
- Sales and Marketing Manager
- Sales and Marketing Vice President
- Sales Coordinator
- Sales Director
- Sales Manager
- Sales Officer
- Sales Promotion Manager
- Sales Representative
- Sales Supervisor
- Sales Vice President
- Store Manager
- Territory Sales Manager
- Utility Sales and Service Manager
- Vehicle Leasing and Rental Manager
- Vice President of Sales
- Vice President Worldwide Sales
- Zone Manager
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