Sales Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Government wage data for the broad Los Angeles sales-and-related occupational family shows a $45,230 median, a $60,050 mean, and a $102,800 90th-percentile annual wage in 2025. Current local posted ranges for this professional slice center on about $90k to $125k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $70k to $180k, while hourly-paid roles center on about $25 to $31 / hour.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 1,168 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $71,617 at the 25th percentile, $91,200 at the median and $122,616 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

This is a competitive market, not a collapsing one. Los Angeles metro unemployment was 4.8% in August 2026, total nonfarm employment was up 0.6111% year over year, and California-wide postings for sales, customer success & account management were up 10.3% year over year in September 2026. But the mix is selective: Los Angeles Professional and Business Services employment was down -0.9355% year over year, and California occupation employment was essentially flat, which points to more selective replacement hiring and backfills than broad expansion. Real openings exist, but the best odds are going to candidates who already look commercially useful on day one.

Best positioned: Mid-career account executives, account managers, and customer success managers who can show Salesforce fluency, account-management depth, negotiation skill, and data-analysis discipline—and who are open to on-site or hybrid work—have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest misconception is assuming this is an entry-friendly or remote-heavy market; only about 10% of sampled postings are entry-level and about 15% are remote.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 1,416 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Insurance Office of America: 51 open roles
2. Calion Wealth Group: 16 open roles
3. Cintas Corporation: 15 open roles
4. Lithia Motors Inc.: 13 open roles
5. Amgen Inc.: 12 open roles
6. Best Version Media: 12 open roles
7. Samsara Inc.: 12 open roles
8. Spectrum: 10 open roles
9. Verizon: 10 open roles
10. Stryker: 9 open roles

Where the openings are

• Los Angeles: 479
• Irvine: 103
• Long Beach: 42
• Pasadena: 37
• Anaheim: 37
• Ontario: 33
• Santa Monica: 30
• Santa Ana: 26

Work arrangement

on-site 900 (64%), hybrid 329 (24%), remote 168 (12%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is spread across a long tail rather than a few dominant brands. The last 90 days show more than 1,900 postings across more than 1,200 companies, and the employer mix is fragmented in the sample. The most active industries are software development at about 25%, retail at about 15%, financial services at about 10%, insurance at about 10%, and manufacturing at about 10%. Named employers showing up repeatedly include AutoZone, Amazon, Xplor Group, Spacex, and Michaels. The bigger concentration is by seniority and sales motion. About 55% of postings are mid-level, about 15% are senior, about 15% are lead+, and only about 10% are entry-level. That means employers are not mainly buying raw enthusiasm; they are buying people who can manage a book, move pipeline, negotiate, and operate in Salesforce or a comparable CRM without much hand-holding.

• Software development (high): Software development accounts for about 25% of local postings, and the skill mix strongly favors account management, Salesforce, negotiation, business development, and pipeline management.
• Financial services and insurance (high): Financial services and insurance together account for about 20% of local postings, and national pay data shows some of the strongest sales-manager wages in these sectors.
• Manufacturing and technical sales-adjacent work (moderate): Manufacturing is about 10% of local postings, and nationally the wage gap between technical/scientific sales representatives and nontechnical ones is meaningful, which favors candidates who can sell more complex products.
• Healthcare-facing business services (moderate): Healthcare was described regionally as a large, stable, evolving client base for business-service firms, which is a useful demand signal for account-management and commercial relationship roles serving that sector.

Where to focus: Prioritize software and regulated B2B verticals where relationship depth, CRM discipline, and product fluency beat commodity selling.

Roles worth searching next

• Revenue Operations Analyst: The overlap is strongest for candidates who already use CRM systems, pipeline management, data gathering, and administrative automation in customer-facing work.
• Account-Based Marketing Manager: ABM uses the same target-account research and personalization mindset, and larger platforms are consolidating ABM tools into broader go-to-market stacks.
• Implementation or Onboarding Manager: Customer-success teams are increasingly supported by AI copilots and workflow automation, so relationship-management candidates with process discipline can transfer well.
• Commercial Real Estate Broker: Southern California commercial firms are still expanding business-development capacity, including seven industrial broker additions in 10 months at one prominent regional employer.

What postings ask for

• Salesforce (table_stakes | immediate): Salesforce appears in about 15% of local postings, and the account-management workflow is increasingly being paired with AI layers such as Salesforce Einstein and Agentforce. Who: Everyone targeting AE, AM, CSM, or sales-management roles.
• Account management (table_stakes | immediate): Account management is the most-requested hard skill in the local sample at about 20%, which tells you employers are screening for book ownership and customer expansion ability, not just closing flair. Who: Mid-career sellers and customer-success candidates.
• Negotiation (differentiator | immediate): Negotiation shows up in about 15% of local postings, which fits a market where employers want people who can protect price, renew business, and manage multi-party buying processes. Who: Account executives, account managers, and anyone moving upmarket.
• Business development and pipeline management (differentiator | immediate): Business development appears in about 15% of local postings and pipeline management in about 10%, while outside analysis says employers are again prioritizing new-business acquisition roles. Who: Entry-level candidates, quota-carrying sellers, and career switchers trying to prove commercial readiness.
• Data analysis and strategic planning (differentiator | near-term): Strategic planning appears in about 15% of local postings and data analysis in about 10%, which is a sign that employers want commercially minded operators, not just relationship builders. Who: Mid-career candidates and anyone pursuing larger accounts or renewals work.
• AI literacy, prompting, and responsible AI use (premium | immediate): In 2026, sales teams are being asked for practical AI skills including AI literacy, prompting, customer research, personalization, and responsible AI use. AI fluency is emerging as a critical sales skill, 56% of sales professionals reportedly use AI daily, and jobs requiring AI skills command 28% higher salaries on average. Who: Everyone, but especially sellers who want to move into software, scaled customer success, or management tracks.

Questions about this market

What do Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles pay in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

Government wage data for the broad Los Angeles sales-and-related occupational family shows a $45,230 median, a $60,050 mean, and a $102,800 90th-percentile annual wage in 2025. Current local posted ranges for this professional slice center on about $90k to $125k, with a broader 25th-75th band of about $70k to $180k, while hourly-paid roles center on about $25 to $31 / hour. Those two pay views are not contradictory. The BLS family is much broader than professional account-executive, customer-success, and account-management work, so the current local posting ranges are a better directional read for professional roles, but Los Angeles remains an expensive market and the local home price index was still up +1.0% year over year in July 2026.

Where is demand for Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA concentrated?

Real opportunity is spread across a long tail rather than a few dominant brands. The last 90 days show more than 1,900 postings across more than 1,200 companies, and the employer mix is fragmented in the sample. The most active industries are software development at about 25%, retail at about 15%, financial services at about 10%, insurance at about 10%, and manufacturing at about 10%. Named employers showing up repeatedly include AutoZone, Amazon, Xplor Group, Spacex, and Michaels. The bigger concentration is by seniority and sales motion. About 55% of postings are mid-level, about 15% are senior, about 15% are lead+, and only about 10% are entry-level. That means employers are not mainly buying raw enthusiasm; they are buying people who can manage a book, move pipeline, negotiate, and operate in Salesforce or a comparable CRM without much hand-holding.

Which employers are hiring the most Sales, Customer Success & Account Management talent in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA?

Recent postings show the most activity from AutoZone, Inc. (30 postings), Amazon (20 postings), Xplor Group (20 postings), Spacex (15 postings), Michaels (15 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Sales, Customer Success & Account Management roles in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 15% are remote and 30% hybrid, with 55% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

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