High paying sales jobs in St. Joseph, MO-KS

Every sales occupation below is ranked by its median annual wage in St. Joseph, MO-KS. 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 St. Joseph, MO-KS run 13.6% below the national average (2024), so a St. Joseph, MO-KS salary is worth about 1.16× 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, St. Joseph, MO-KS · Employed

1Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products$100,720
Bachelor's degree
$56,700 – $164,37060
2First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers$80,110
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,990 – $148,86030
3Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$70,010
Bachelor's degree
$47,340 – $218,98080
4Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$64,450
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,940 – $103,100320
5Insurance Sales Agents$60,680
High school diploma or equivalent
$28,600 – $81,660130
6Real Estate Brokers$58,760
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,970 – $104,10030
7Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$47,210
High school diploma or equivalent
$30,780 – $94,480120
8First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers$46,300
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,280 – $67,190400
9Parts Salespersons$38,620
No formal educational credential
$30,140 – $57,660120
10Counter and Rental Clerks$38,000
No formal educational credential
$29,740 – $62,30070
11Retail Salespersons$31,770
No formal educational credential
$28,600 – $44,6201,310
12Cashiers$29,920
No formal educational credential
$28,600 – $35,5201,330

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

#	Occupation	MedianSt. Joseph, MO-KS	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific ProductsBachelor's degree	$100,720	$56,700 – $164,370	60
2	First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,110	$45,990 – $148,860	30
3	Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales AgentsBachelor's degree	$70,010	$47,340 – $218,980	80
4	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific ProductsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$64,450	$37,940 – $103,100	320
5	Insurance Sales AgentsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$60,680	$28,600 – $81,660	130
6	Real Estate BrokersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$58,760	$32,970 – $104,100	30
7	Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and TravelHigh school diploma or equivalent	$47,210	$30,780 – $94,480	120
8	First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,300	$32,280 – $67,190	400
9	Parts SalespersonsNo formal educational credential	$38,620	$30,140 – $57,660	120
10	Counter and Rental ClerksNo formal educational credential	$38,000	$29,740 – $62,300	70
11	Retail SalespersonsNo formal educational credential	$31,770	$28,600 – $44,620	1,310
12	CashiersNo formal educational credential	$29,920	$28,600 – $35,520	1,330

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in St. Joseph, MO-KS. 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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