1,000+ Sales & Account Management Jobs in Houston, TX

Government wage data for the broad Houston sales-and-related family shows a much lower base than many professional sales candidates expect: the 2025 annual mean was $52,880, the median was $36,970, the 75th percentile was $60,360, and the 90th percentile was $99,410. That broad family includes many lower-paid sales jobs, while recent local postings for this narrower professional category center on about $83k to $120k, with a broader middle band of about $65k to $168k, and Texas new openings average about $70,305.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 633 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $58,240 at the 25th percentile, $84,000 at the median and $115,000 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

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Houston is a workable market for professional sales and account-management candidates: the metro added 44,700 nonfarm jobs over the year through August 2026, and statewide postings for sales, customer success & account management were up 20.5% year over year in September 2026. But it is not an easy market: local unemployment was 5.0% in August, and the local posting mix skews mid-career and in-person, with about 60% mid-level roles, about 55% on-site, and about 10% remote. Your best lane is industry-aligned B2B work, especially in insurance, manufacturing, software development, and IT services, which make up most of the local professional posting mix.

Best positioned: The best odds right now belong to mid-career B2B sellers and customer-success/account managers who can show quota, renewal, or expansion results, use Salesforce, and work on-site or hybrid in insurance, industrial/manufacturing, or software-service environments.

Main caution: The biggest misconception is assuming the headline salary ranges apply broadly; official Houston sales-family wages are pulled down by lower-paid sales jobs, while this market's higher-paying professional roles are narrower and less entry-friendly.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,099 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Amtex Insurance: 63 open roles
2. Alleviation Enterprise: 40 open roles
3. Power Home Remodeling Group: 23 open roles
4. Cintas Corporation: 11 open roles
5. Goosehead Insurance, Inc.: 10 open roles
6. Mustang Cat: 9 open roles
7. Alfa Laval: 8 open roles
8. Amazon Web Services, Inc.: 8 open roles
9. BairesDev: 8 open roles
10. Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 8 open roles

Where the openings are

• Houston: 748
• Pasadena: 26
• The Woodlands: 25
• Sugar Land: 25
• Pearland: 18
• Katy: 18
• Spring: 17
• Missouri City: 16

Work arrangement

on-site 777 (71%), hybrid 188 (17%), remote 122 (11%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is clustered more in business-facing verticals than in pure consumer selling. In the local posting mix, insurance accounts for about 20%, manufacturing about 15%, software development about 15%, IT services and consulting about 10%, and retail about 15%. Houston's Professional and Business Services base reached 581.3 thousand jobs in August 2026 and was up 2.5944% year over year, which is a better local backdrop for B2B sales and account management than Trade, Transportation, and Utilities, which was flat over the year. Industrial and energy-adjacent selling deserves extra attention in Houston. VuWall and G&D expanded TOLA sales coverage with a Houston focus on energy, utilities, oil and gas, and process-control customers in October 2026, and Eli Lilly broke ground on a $6.5 billion Houston manufacturing site with a $12.5 million workforce commitment to San Jacinto College. These are not direct job counts, but they do point to account-facing work around industrial buyers, facilities, clinical and pharma ecosystems, and regional field coverage. The more cautious zone is finance-adjacent and generic retail sales. Texas Financial Activities employment was 940.9 thousand in August 2026 and down 0.2% year over year, so insurance may still hire while broader finance-linked demand looks less expansionary. Retail appears in the posting mix, but this report is focused on professional roles rather than front-line store selling.

• Insurance revenue roles (high): This is the single largest local posting cluster at about 20%, making it one of the safest vertical bets if you can handle consultative selling, compliance-heavy conversations, and long-tail account growth.
• Industrial, manufacturing, and energy-adjacent accounts (high): Manufacturing is about 15% of the local mix, and Houston-specific expansion signals in process-control and manufacturing suggest durable field-selling and account-coverage demand.
• Software and IT-services customer growth roles (moderate): Software development and IT services/consulting combine for about 25% of local postings, which supports account management and customer-success paths, but national information employment was down 4.2% year over year, so target profitable or infrastructure-tied firms rather than hype alone.
• Startup and emerging commercial teams (moderate): Branch Energy raised $33 million, Bairitone Health raised $2.4 million, and Houston gained a $127,623 small-business incubator grant, which can create future commercial openings even though none of those announcements promised immediate sales hiring volume.

Where to focus: Prioritize B2B roles tied to insurance, industrial/manufacturing, and software-service firms where you can tell a Houston-specific industry story and accept on-site or hybrid work.

Roles worth searching next

• Revenue Operations Analyst / Sales Operations Specialist: This is the cleanest bridge if you are strong in Salesforce, forecasting, reporting, or pipeline hygiene but weaker on recent quota-carrying wins.
• Marketing Operations / Demand Generation Manager: Prospecting, segmentation, lifecycle thinking, and AI-assisted personalization transfer well from modern sales and customer-success work.
• Implementation Project Manager / Onboarding Manager: This is a practical option for candidates whose strength is handoff, retention, adoption, and cross-functional customer work rather than net-new hunting.
• Commercial or Business Analyst in insurance, software, or manufacturing: If your edge is pricing, territory planning, market analysis, or customer insights, this path lets you stay close to revenue teams without needing recent closing numbers.

What postings ask for

• Salesforce (table_stakes | immediate): Salesforce appears in about 15% of Houston postings, so CRM fluency is a baseline screen rather than a nice-to-have. Who: Everyone, especially career switchers and mid-career candidates whose recent employers used homegrown tools.
• Account management (premium | immediate): Account management is the most-requested hard skill locally at about 25% of postings, which means retention, expansion, and stakeholder-management proof is highly marketable. Who: Mid-career sellers, CSMs, and anyone coming from client-facing service roles.
• Business development and prospecting (table_stakes | immediate): Business development appears in about 20% of local postings and prospecting in about 10%, so many Houston employers still expect self-sourced pipeline, not just inbound lead handling. Who: Entry-level applicants, BDR/SDR candidates, and career switchers.
• Negotiation and strategic planning (differentiator | immediate): Negotiation and strategic planning each show up in about 15% of local postings, signaling that employers want consultative sellers and account managers who can shape deals, not just pass through quotes. Who: Mid-career and senior candidates targeting larger accounts or renewals.
• Market analysis and data analysis (differentiator | near-term): Market analysis appears in about 10% of Houston postings, and national hiring guidance says technical and digital skills are the most sought category, named by 56% of organizations. Who: Career switchers from analyst roles and sellers moving toward strategic accounts.
• AI collaboration and prompt engineering (premium | near-term): AI collaboration and prompt engineering are increasingly expected in sales work, and national guidance lists AI-tool proficiency, data analysis, prompt engineering, customer journey mapping, and data-privacy awareness among sought Sales & Marketing skills. Who: Anyone targeting tech, RevOps-adjacent, or modern outbound/account-growth teams.

Questions about this market

What do Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles pay in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX?

Government wage data for the broad Houston sales-and-related family shows a much lower base than many professional sales candidates expect: the 2025 annual mean was $52,880, the median was $36,970, the 75th percentile was $60,360, and the 90th percentile was $99,410. That broad family includes many lower-paid sales jobs, while recent local postings for this narrower professional category center on about $83k to $120k, with a broader middle band of about $65k to $168k, and Texas new openings average about $70,305. In Houston, pay can be solid if you are in B2B account management, insurance, software, or industrial selling, but the market still has a large lower-paid sales base that pulls down official averages.

Where is demand for Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX concentrated?

Opportunity is clustered more in business-facing verticals than in pure consumer selling. In the local posting mix, insurance accounts for about 20%, manufacturing about 15%, software development about 15%, IT services and consulting about 10%, and retail about 15%. Houston's Professional and Business Services base reached 581.3 thousand jobs in August 2026 and was up 2.5944% year over year, which is a better local backdrop for B2B sales and account management than Trade, Transportation, and Utilities, which was flat over the year. Industrial and energy-adjacent selling deserves extra attention in Houston. VuWall and G&D expanded TOLA sales coverage with a Houston focus on energy, utilities, oil and gas, and process-control customers in October 2026, and Eli Lilly broke ground on a $6.5 billion Houston manufacturing site with a $12.5 million workforce commitment to San Jacinto College. These are not direct job counts, but they do point to account-facing work around industrial buyers, facilities, clinical and pharma ecosystems, and regional field coverage. The more cautious zone is finance-adjacent and generic retail sales. Texas Financial Activities employment was 940.9 thousand in August 2026 and down 0.2% year over year, so insurance may still hire while broader finance-linked demand looks less expansionary. Retail appears in the posting mix, but this report is focused on professional roles rather than front-line store selling.

Which employers are hiring the most Sales, Customer Success & Account Management talent in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX?

Recent postings show the most activity from AutoZone, Inc. (30 postings), Goosehead Insurance, Inc. (15 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 10% are remote and 35% hybrid, with 55% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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