Market slice

Retail Associate jobs in San Diego

3,803 open Retail Associate jobs in San Diego. Median salary $35k, 3.9% remote, 164 posted this week.

Open roles

3,803

164 new this week

Median salary

$35k

4.2% disclose pay

Remote share

3.9%

of all openings

Median age of posting

30d

50.7% older than 60d

Freshness

How old these postings are

just posted30d median90d+

Age of posting	Share
Posted in the last 7 days	11.7%
Median age	30 days
Older than 60 days	50.7%

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$61k

Based on 160 postings that disclose pay — 4.2% 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	$27,500
Median	$35,000
75th	$43,500
90th	$53,000

Demand

Who is hiring and what they ask for

Top companies

Ironbark Manufacturing

357

Lakeshore Hospitality

331

304

274

247

221

194

167

Top technologies

72.0%

65.8%

59.6%

53.4%

47.2%

Swift

41.0%

SQL

34.8%

PostgreSQL

28.6%

Most-asked skills

Communication

58.0%

Stakeholder management

52.6%

Cross-functional leadership

47.2%

A/B testing

41.8%

Vendor management

36.4%

Distributed systems

31.0%

Data modelling

25.6%

Budgeting

20.2%

Composition

How the market splits

Work arrangement

Remote

3.9%

Hybrid

51.8%

In Person

44.3%

Top locations

San Diego

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

1,179

hiring in this slice

Posted last 7d

11.7%

of the cohort

Salary disclosed

4.2%

Cobalt Financial · San Diego, California, United States

Not disclosed

Hybrid Seniorretail Senior 38d ago

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FAQ

Questions people ask

How many retail associate jobs are open in San Diego?

We track retail associate openings published in San Diego, 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 San Diego?

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 3,803 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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