Sales is a quick way to excel your career with little experience and a general college degree like Communications or Business... but are you ready to take on the challenge?
1. Comcast Business - BAE
Salary Expectations: $35,000-$40,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $70,000-$110,000
Benefits Grade: A+
Career Growth Grade: A-
Hiring Grade: B
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: B
Product Grade: A
You might hate their customer service, but this role doesn't only offer the best benefits on the market, but also the great path for success. Comcast is a huge company where you can navigate between Xfinity, Comcast Business, NBC or Spotlight around the nation all while they fork up tons towards your 401K & tuition reimbursement. Seniors BAEs make a $45,000 base salary & Enterprise Account Executives make a $75,000 base salary. The role sees fairly little change compared to most & there is a ton of freedom given.
2. Verizon Business - Business Account Executive
Salary Expectations: $35,000-$40,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $60,000-$100,000
Benefits Grade: A
Career Growth Grade: B
Hiring Grade: C
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: B
Product Grade: A+
Verizon has a lot of negativity around their corporate culture, but at the end of the day they have an extremely easy product to sell, a huge market, great benefit & room for career growth. This role offers an outstanding soon to be 5G wireless service & a great Fios internet product that can kill competition. If you are hungry, you can really succeed at this role if you can get in the door.
3. Sprint - Small Business Account Executive
Salary Expectations: $40,000-$45,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $65,000-$80,000
Benefits Grade: B
Career Growth Grade: B
Hiring Grade: B
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: C
Product Grade: B
After the merger with T-Mobile; I was hesitant to put this role at number 3, but the role is too good to pass on. Great company, solid benefits, above-average product & probably the best guaranteed compensation you can receive on this list. Mergers give sales departments an extremely hard time to succeed, so I would keep my eyes out. They are hiring like crazy lately, so its worth a try!
4. AT&T - Retail Sales Associate
Salary Expectations: $30,000-$35,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $55,000-$75,000
Benefits Grade: A
Career Growth Grade: A+
Hiring Grade: B+
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: B+
Product Grade: A
Basically the Comcast role but working in a store. Most people would be shocked to see the salaries of this role on-top of the outstanding benefits package. They always have openings & the room for growth is outstanding. The only unfortunate part about AT&T for Pittsburgh specifically is that they do not have their outstanding Fiber services here, only wireless, so you might need to move to really make the big bucks.
5. ADP - Inside Account Executive
Salary Expectations: $30,000-$40,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $50,000-$80,000
Benefits Grade: A
Career Growth Grade: A
Hiring Grade: A+
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: C+
Product Grade: B+
ADP will hire you; they hire just about anyone, but they do have a great company & great product. As sales-y as it gets, 50 calls a day & boiler room atmosphere. The role offers good benefits, good compensation and if you compete hard, great career growth. I'd definitely use them as a plan B in a job search though.
6. Paychex - Sales Representative
Salary Expectations: $35,000-$40,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $55,000-$75,000
Benefits Grade: A+
Career Growth Grade: A
Hiring Grade: B
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: B
Product Grade: B
Paycheck is much like ADP, payroll services, but a little less intense. They offers a major accounts role that increases your pay pretty decent, and if you really work hard, you'll get it. Paychex is also growing at a great rate as all the payroll companies are.
7. Verizon Wireless - Retail Sales Representative
Salary Expectations: $30,000-$40,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $55,000-$75,000
Benefits Grade: A
Career Growth Grade: B-
Hiring Grade: B+
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: B+
Product Grade: A+
Just as I stated before, Verizon has an outstanding product, benefits & compensation. This is just the retail version of the Business Account Executive role. You will be in a store, so you won't have as much freedom, but as stated before, Verizon offers great career growth.
8. Xfinity - Outside Sales Associate
Salary Expectations: $30,000-$35,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $50,000-$80,000
Benefits Grade: A+
Career Growth Grade: B
Hiring Grade: A
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: C
Product Grade: A
Probably the best job with someone with a strong desire to win, but little qualifications . to get. With the right attitude, you can make over $80,000 in this role, but you are door knocking homes, so a lot of people aren't built for that. If you are, these guys have great connections with Comcast Business BAEs, so you can easily make huge career jumps on-top of great benefits.
9. PLS - Account Executive
Salary Expectations: $35,000-$40,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $50,000-$65,000
Benefits Grade: C+
Career Growth Grade: C+
Hiring Grade: A
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: B+
Product Grade: C+
I kind of had to put this logistics role in here because its about as secure as a 3rd down curl route pass to Jason Witten. I wouldn't ever want to get into logistics, heavy boiler room atmosphere and pressure as the telecom roles, but less compensation & room for growth. If you need to get your foot in the door somewhere because you are 3-5 months in unemployed, it's great pay, decent benefits & could be a great role you can definitely get.
10. Fedex - Business Account Executive
Salary Expectations: $35,000-$45,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $55,000-$70,000
Benefits Grade: B+
Career Growth Grade: C+
Hiring Grade: B+
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: B+
Product Grade: C+
Worst Jobs Awards
The worst jobs that will try to lore you in with their low compensation & horrible products & services. I'm not even bothering putting a summary.
1. TQL - Sales Representative
Salary Expectations: $35,000-$40,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $35,000-$40,000
Benefits Grade: C
Career Growth Grade: C
Hiring Grade: A
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: D
Product Grade: C
2. Any Life Insurance Sales Job - New York Life, Etc
Salary Expectations: $20,000-$35,000
Total Compensation Expectations: $25,000-$60,000
Benefits Grade: D
Career Growth Grade: C
Hiring Grade: A+
Happiness & Comfortability Grade: D-
Product Grade: D-