1,500+ Sales & Account Management Jobs in Chicago, IL

Observed local government data for the broad sales-and-related family shows a $41,840 annual median wage, a $59,990 mean, a $65,590 75th-percentile wage, and a $107,080 90th-percentile wage in Chicago for 2025. That same local data also shows a much higher niche for sales managers at a $170,050 mean annual wage. Proxy market signals for professional B2B roles are higher: sampled posted salary ranges center on about $92k to $127k locally, and one Chicago account-executive salary source estimates a $94,000 median base with approximately $188,000 median OTE.

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Advertised pay

Across the 1,287 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $66,500 at the 25th percentile, $90,000 at the median and $135,000 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 15, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Chicago is still a workable market for experienced B2B sales and customer-facing candidates, but it is not an easy one. The metro unemployment rate was 5.6% in August 2026, up 1.1 percentage points from a year earlier, even though Chicago-area total nonfarm employment reached a record August level and rose by 13,400 jobs year over year. At the same time, Illinois postings for this occupation family were up 19.4% year over year while statewide employment in the field was essentially flat, which suggests more open requisitions without a broad easing in competition.

Best positioned: Mid-career account executives, customer success managers, account managers, and partnerships candidates who can show measurable revenue retention or expansion, strong Salesforce habits, consultative selling, and comfort with AI-assisted workflows have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not mistake the metro's broad sales footprint or high manager pay for easy access; sampled openings skew mid-level, only about 10% are entry level, and top-end compensation is concentrated in narrower sub-roles.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,649 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Best Version Media: 15 open roles
2. Industry Analysts, Inc.: 14 open roles
3. Nordstrom, Inc.: 14 open roles
4. RRD Company: 12 open roles
5. Amazon Web Services, Inc.: 11 open roles
6. JLL: 11 open roles
7. Syneos Health, Inc.: 11 open roles
8. RXO Inc.: 9 open roles
9. Stripe, Inc.: 9 open roles
10. Cintas Corporation: 8 open roles

Where the openings are

• Chicago: 940
• Schaumburg: 40
• Naperville: 39
• Oak Brook: 29
• Arlington Heights: 25
• Aurora: 22
• Elgin: 18
• Joliet: 18

Work arrangement

on-site 910 (57%), hybrid 495 (31%), remote 201 (13%)

Where the demand is

The opportunity set is broad but uneven. Over the last 90 days, the sample showed more than 1,900 postings across more than 1,200 companies, and hiring was fragmented rather than dominated by a few firms. Within that sample, software development accounted for about 30% of postings, followed by retail at about 15%, with insurance, financial services, and manufacturing each at about 10%. That mix matters because the surrounding sector backdrop is mixed. Chicago Professional and Business Services employment was 820.2 thousand in August 2026 and up 0.3794% year over year, which supports B2B selling and customer-facing service roles. But metro Trade, Transportation, and Utilities employment was down 0.9988% year over year, and Illinois Financial Activities employment was down 3.9% year over year, which argues for more caution in distribution-heavy and some finance-linked commercial roles. There are also some local clues about where employers are investing. Strongpoint Partners expanded its sales desk and strategic-partnerships leadership, and Qumis added both sales and customer-experience leadership in September 2026. That points toward consultative, relationship-led roles in software, fintech, insurtech, benefits, and ecosystem-partner channels rather than purely transactional selling.

• B2B software and AI-enabled commercial teams (high): This is the clearest local concentration in the sample, with software development at about 30% of postings and demand centered on Salesforce, pipeline management, consultative selling, and data-aware account work.
• Insurance, benefits, and financial-services relationship roles (moderate): Chicago still shows meaningful demand here, and recent local hires at Strongpoint and Qumis reinforce the lane, but statewide finance employment softness means employers may favor candidates who already know the buyer and compliance context.
• Manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution-adjacent sales (limited): Manufacturing remains part of the mix, but recent Essendant layoffs and the metro's weaker trade and transportation backdrop make this lane more selective and less forgiving.
• Automotive and product-adjacent sales (moderate): AutoZone was the most consistently active named employer in the sample with more than 50 postings, and ASE was the most commonly required certification, showing that some local demand sits in product-knowledge-heavy sales rather than classic SaaS roles.

Where to focus: Focus first on B2B software, insurtech, benefits, and consultative account-growth roles where Chicago shows both posting volume and recent employer investment.

Roles worth searching next

• Revenue Operations Analyst: It uses many of the same muscles showing up in local postings, especially Salesforce, pipeline management, strategic planning, and data analysis.
• Demand Generation or ABM Manager: This is a good fit for sellers who understand target accounts, messaging, and buyer journeys; account-based tooling is getting more embedded in larger platforms, and thought leadership remains important in B2B buying.
• Implementation or Onboarding Specialist: It is a practical bridge from customer success and account work, especially for candidates with retention, adoption, or client handoff experience.
• Customer Education or Enablement Manager: AI-embedded customer teams and outcome-led customer journeys raise the value of people who can scale onboarding, training, and adoption.

What postings ask for

• Account management (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most-requested hard skill in the local sample at about 20%, which means employers want proof you can retain, grow, and coordinate existing business, not just close net-new logos. Who: Mid-career AEs, account managers, CSMs, and career switchers coming from client-facing delivery roles.
• Salesforce (table_stakes | immediate): Salesforce appears in about 15% of local postings, making it one of the clearest baseline filters for interviews in this market. Who: Everyone in the category, especially entry-level candidates who need a credible signal of process discipline.
• Negotiation and consultative selling (differentiator | immediate): Negotiation shows up in about 15% of local postings and consultative selling in about 10%, which fits a market that is rewarding complex account work over pure volume activity. Who: Mid-career sellers, partnerships candidates, and switchers trying to move above entry-level outreach roles.
• Strategic planning and pipeline management (premium | immediate): Both skills appear prominently in local postings, with strategic planning at about 15% and pipeline management at about 10%, making them especially important for higher-trust account and leadership-track roles. Who: Candidates targeting enterprise AE, partnerships, sales manager, or strategic account roles.
• Data analysis (differentiator | near-term): Data analysis appears in about 10% of local postings and pairs well with a market that increasingly expects sellers and CSMs to work from usage signals, forecast quality, and account health data. Who: AEs, CSMs, RevOps-curious candidates, and switchers from analyst-heavy backgrounds.
• Prompt engineering and AI fluency (premium | near-term): Customer-success research for 2026 explicitly recommends prompt engineering and AI fluency, and local evidence also points to AI being embedded in sales and account workflows. Who: CSMs, account managers, and mid-career sellers who want to stay ahead of automation rather than compete with it.

Questions about this market

What do Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles pay in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN?

Observed local government data for the broad sales-and-related family shows a $41,840 annual median wage, a $59,990 mean, a $65,590 75th-percentile wage, and a $107,080 90th-percentile wage in Chicago for 2025. That same local data also shows a much higher niche for sales managers at a $170,050 mean annual wage. Proxy market signals for professional B2B roles are higher: sampled posted salary ranges center on about $92k to $127k locally, and one Chicago account-executive salary source estimates a $94,000 median base with approximately $188,000 median OTE. This is a wide-spread market. Broad sales averages understate what experienced account executives, customer success managers, technical sellers, and managers can make, but they also remind you that Chicago's category includes many lower-paid general sales roles alongside the premium ones.

Where is demand for Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN concentrated?

The opportunity set is broad but uneven. Over the last 90 days, the sample showed more than 1,900 postings across more than 1,200 companies, and hiring was fragmented rather than dominated by a few firms. Within that sample, software development accounted for about 30% of postings, followed by retail at about 15%, with insurance, financial services, and manufacturing each at about 10%. That mix matters because the surrounding sector backdrop is mixed. Chicago Professional and Business Services employment was 820.2 thousand in August 2026 and up 0.3794% year over year, which supports B2B selling and customer-facing service roles. But metro Trade, Transportation, and Utilities employment was down 0.9988% year over year, and Illinois Financial Activities employment was down 3.9% year over year, which argues for more caution in distribution-heavy and some finance-linked commercial roles. There are also some local clues about where employers are investing. Strongpoint Partners expanded its sales desk and strategic-partnerships leadership, and Qumis added both sales and customer-experience leadership in September 2026. That points toward consultative, relationship-led roles in software, fintech, insurtech, benefits, and ecosystem-partner channels rather than purely transactional selling.

Which employers are hiring the most Sales, Customer Success & Account Management talent in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN?

Recent postings show the most activity from AutoZone, Inc. (50 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 40% hybrid, with 50% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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