High paying sales jobs in Rapid City, SD with no experience

The best paid sales occupations in Rapid City, SD that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Rapid City, SD run 10.8% below the national average (2024), so a Rapid City, SD salary is worth about 1.12× 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, Rapid City, SD · Employed

1Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$78,280
High school diploma or equivalent
$47,870 – $128,890780
2Insurance Sales Agents$76,500
High school diploma or equivalent
$50,680 – $133,580310
3Advertising Sales Agents$63,640
High school diploma or equivalent
$39,600 – $102,30080
4Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$50,710
High school diploma or equivalent
$37,160 – $89,860130
5Real Estate Sales Agents$46,270
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,900 – $73,920160
6Parts Salespersons$41,380
No formal educational credential
$34,250 – $63,610340
7Travel Agents$37,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,700 – $61,95030
8Counter and Rental Clerks$36,120
No formal educational credential
$28,080 – $45,810160
9Retail Salespersons$33,350
No formal educational credential
$27,870 – $54,0403,090
10Cashiers$30,460
No formal educational credential
$26,800 – $36,3401,980

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

#	Occupation	MedianRapid City, SD	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific ProductsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$78,280	$47,870 – $128,890	780
2	Insurance Sales AgentsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$76,500	$50,680 – $133,580	310
3	Advertising Sales AgentsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$63,640	$39,600 – $102,300	80
4	Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and TravelHigh school diploma or equivalent	$50,710	$37,160 – $89,860	130
5	Real Estate Sales AgentsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,270	$45,900 – $73,920	160
6	Parts SalespersonsNo formal educational credential	$41,380	$34,250 – $63,610	340
7	Travel AgentsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$37,990	$36,700 – $61,950	30
8	Counter and Rental ClerksNo formal educational credential	$36,120	$28,080 – $45,810	160
9	Retail SalespersonsNo formal educational credential	$33,350	$27,870 – $54,040	3,090
10	CashiersNo formal educational credential	$30,460	$26,800 – $36,340	1,980

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Rapid City, SD. 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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