Market slice

Retail Associate jobs in Chicago

2,251 open Retail Associate jobs in Chicago. Median salary $36.5k, 11.6% remote, 104 posted this week.

Open roles

2,251

104 new this week

Median salary

$36.5k

4.9% disclose pay

Remote share

11.6%

of all openings

Median age of posting

74d

49.8% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted74d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	10.7%
Median age	74 days
Older than 60 days	49.8%

Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.

Pay

Salary distribution

$16k$63k

Based on 110 postings that disclose pay — 4.9% of this slice.

Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.

Percentile	Salary
25th	$29,000
Median	$36,500
75th	$45,500
90th	$55,500

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

212

196

180

162

146

131

115

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

41.0%

34.8%

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Technical writing

58.0%

Vendor management

52.6%

Distributed systems

47.2%

Roadmapping

41.8%

Cross-functional leadership

36.4%

Negotiation

31.0%

Incident response

25.6%

Communication

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

11.6%

Hybrid

49.6%

In Person

38.8%

Top locations

Chicago

34.0%

United States

30.4%

Canada

26.8%

United Kingdom

23.2%

Ireland

19.6%

Germany

16.0%

France

12.4%

Netherlands

8.8%

Employers

698

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

10.7%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

4.9%

Umbra Security · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Not disclosed

In Person Seniorretail Senior 31d ago

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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many retail associate jobs are open in Chicago?

We track retail associate openings published in Chicago, refreshed continuously. The count at the top of this page is the current total. Job postings read directly from company applicant tracking systems.

What does a retail associate earn in Chicago?

The median advertised salary is shown above, alongside the 25th, 75th and 90th percentiles. Only postings that publish a salary are included, so the sample is smaller than the total number of openings.

How do I get this data through an API?

Every number on this page comes from one call to our jobs and insights endpoints. See the API documentation for the request shape and filters.

Figures cover 2,251 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02. “Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict. How we measure this →

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