High paying sales jobs in La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN

Every sales occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN. Read the percentile range, not just the median: the gap between the 10th and 90th inside a single sales job is usually wider than the gap between two different ones, so where you land in a field matters more than which field you pick.

Cost of living: prices in La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN run 8.2% below the national average (2024), so a La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN salary is worth about 1.09× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN · Employed

1Sales Engineers$118,760
Bachelor's degree
$82,100 – $162,17030
2First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers$82,320
High school diploma or equivalent
$56,330 – $120,900140
3Insurance Sales Agents$80,300
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,290 – $204,560130
4Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products$65,470
Bachelor's degree
$35,130 – $141,17030
5Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$62,110
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,810 – $115,850880
6Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$61,430
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,010 – $118,030620
7Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$59,580
Bachelor's degree
$47,580 – $133,890150
8Real Estate Sales Agents$52,050
High school diploma or equivalent
$38,190 – $91,96090
9First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers$48,760
High school diploma or equivalent
$34,960 – $73,420590
10Counter and Rental Clerks$45,300
No formal educational credential
$31,030 – $66,210210
11Parts Salespersons$45,150
No formal educational credential
$30,150 – $63,590180
12Retail Salespersons$34,090
No formal educational credential
$26,180 – $47,0902,290
13Cashiers$30,900
No formal educational credential
$23,530 – $37,3502,020

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianLa Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Sales EngineersBachelor's degree	$118,760	$82,100 – $162,170	30
2	First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$82,320	$56,330 – $120,900	140
3	Insurance Sales AgentsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,300	$47,290 – $204,560	130
4	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific ProductsBachelor's degree	$65,470	$35,130 – $141,170	30
5	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific ProductsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$62,110	$39,810 – $115,850	880
6	Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and TravelHigh school diploma or equivalent	$61,430	$38,010 – $118,030	620
7	Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales AgentsBachelor's degree	$59,580	$47,580 – $133,890	150
8	Real Estate Sales AgentsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$52,050	$38,190 – $91,960	90
9	First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,760	$34,960 – $73,420	590
10	Counter and Rental ClerksNo formal educational credential	$45,300	$31,030 – $66,210	210
11	Parts SalespersonsNo formal educational credential	$45,150	$30,150 – $63,590	180
12	Retail SalespersonsNo formal educational credential	$34,090	$26,180 – $47,090	2,290
13	CashiersNo formal educational credential	$30,900	$23,530 – $37,350	2,020

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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