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Sales

Specific interest area · O*NET

Sales is a specific interest area in the O*NET database, part of the Enterprising Holland family. O*NET describes it as: "Work involves selling goods or services." It is scored for 891 occupations, which average 1.50 out of 7 on the Occupational Interest scale.

How it's measured

O*NET scores each occupation on this interest on a 0–7 Occupational Interest (OI) scale, where higher means the work more strongly rewards this interest. The figures here are those occupation-level scores — a description of what kind of work each job involves, not a ranking of which job is better, harder, or higher-paid.

Economy-wide average 1.50 / 7 Mean across all 891 scored occupations
Range across occupations 1.00–6.84 Lowest to highest occupation score (spread 5.84)
Prevalence vs. other interests 41st pct Where this interest's average ranks among all O*NET interest dimensions

Occupations that fit this interest best

The occupations that score this interest strongest on the 0–7 scale.

Occupation Score
Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers 6.84
Retail Salespersons 6.84
Advertising Sales Agents 6.73
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products 6.73
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 6.62
Insurance Sales Agents 6.57
Sales Managers 6.57
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel 6.52
Telemarketers 6.52
Real Estate Sales Agents 6.46
Real Estate Brokers 6.30
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products 6.30
Sales Engineers 6.25
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers 6.15
Demonstrators and Product Promoters 6.05
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers 5.80
Travel Agents 5.80
Personal Financial Advisors 5.75
Fundraising Managers 5.46
Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes 5.41
Fundraisers 5.31
Parts Salespersons 5.04
Advertising and Promotions Managers 4.99
Marketing Managers 4.94
Driver/Sales Workers 4.42

Occupations that fit this interest least

The occupations that score this interest weakest — where the work rarely rewards it.

Occupation Score
School Bus Monitors 1.00
Semiconductor Processing Technicians 1.00
Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Sewing Machine Operators 1.00
Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders 1.00
Signal and Track Switch Repairers 1.00
Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators 1.00
Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing 1.00
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 1.00
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters 1.00
Surgical Assistants 1.00
Surgical Technologists 1.00
Surveying and Mapping Technicians 1.00
Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders 1.00
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Tire Builders 1.00
Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners 1.00
Tool and Die Makers 1.00
Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping 1.00
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers 1.00
Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.00
Wellhead Pumpers 1.00
Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing 1.00

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

  • O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Sales." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/interests/sales

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Sales. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/interests/sales

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-sales,
  title  = {Sales},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/interests/sales}
}

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