Which pays more, Consultant or Receptionist?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Consultant vs Receptionist

Pay is effectively the same — the medians sit under 1% apart. There is 3.0× more demand for Receptionist. Listings for Receptionist move faster — median age 32 days against 52.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Consultant	Receptionist	Gap
Open postings	6,137	18,327	-12,190
Posted this week	303	1,608
Median salary	$79,000	$79,500	$-500
25th percentile	$62.5k	$63k
75th percentile	$98k	$98.5k
Salary disclosed	6.3%	8.5%
Remote share	12.2%	12.6%	-0.4pp
Median age of posting	52d	32d
Open over 60 days	46.9%	40.6%
Visa sponsorship	14.3%	14.4%

Pay

Pay distribution

Consultant

$36k$137k

Receptionist

$36k$138k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Consultant

just posted52d median90d+

Receptionist

just posted32d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Consultant — technologies

React

72.0%

Python

65.8%

Salesforce

59.6%

Snowflake

53.4%

AWS

47.2%

PostgreSQL

41.0%

Tableau

34.8%

Receptionist — technologies

Terraform

72.0%

Java

65.8%

Figma

59.6%

AWS

53.4%

JavaScript

47.2%

Python

41.0%

Spark

34.8%

Consultant — employers

Meridian Software

9.4%

Rivergate Media

8.7%

Umbra Security

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Northwind Systems

6.5%

Halcyon Energy

5.8%

Aperture Labs

5.1%

Receptionist — employers

Quarry Analytics

9.4%

Solstice Biotech

8.7%

Vantage Logistics

8.0%

Brightline Retail

7.2%

Ironbark Manufacturing

6.5%

Halcyon Energy

5.8%

Cobalt Financial

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Operations & Admin comparisons

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%.