Side by side

Account Manager vs Sales Associate

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit under 1% apart. There is 5.2× more demand for Account Manager. Listings for Sales Associate move faster — median age 30 days against 59.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureAccount ManagerSales AssociateGap
Open postings101,31819,498+81,820
Posted this week6,6611,157
Median salary$103,000$102,000+$1k
25th percentile$81.5k$80.5k
75th percentile$128k$127k
Salary disclosed7.9%6.2%
Remote share12.7%12.5%+0.2pp
Median age of posting59d30d
Open over 60 days31.0%30.8%
Visa sponsorship25.0%4.8%
Pay

Pay distribution

Account Manager

$46k$178k

Sales Associate

$46k$176k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Account Manager

just posted59d median90d+

Sales Associate

just posted30d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Account Manager — technologies

dbt
72.0%
Spark
65.8%
Snowflake
59.6%
Node.js
53.4%
React
47.2%
SQL
41.0%
Swift
34.8%

Sales Associate — technologies

Java
72.0%
AWS
65.8%
Tableau
59.6%
Salesforce
53.4%
Swift
47.2%
Python
41.0%
Node.js
34.8%

Account Manager — employers

Kestrel Health
9.4%
Tidewater Insurance
8.7%
Lakeshore Hospitality
8.0%
Quarry Analytics
7.2%
Aperture Labs
6.5%
Vantage Logistics
5.8%
Brightline Retail
5.1%

Sales Associate — employers

Brightline Retail
9.4%
Quarry Analytics
8.7%
Tidewater Insurance
8.0%
Cobalt Financial
7.2%
Solstice Biotech
6.5%
Beacon Robotics
5.8%
Meridian Software
5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.