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Retail Salespersons Career

For the Retail Salespersons, the average hourly wage is $17.64 and the average annual wage is $36,690. Understand required skills and ability for the career and find right career colleges for it.
Retail Salespersons career

Retail Salespersons

The main tasks and work activities of Retail Salespersons are to greet customers, patrons, or visitors, gather customer or product information to determine customer needs, reconcile records of sales or other financial transactions, review laws or regulations to maintain professional knowledge. In general, for the Retail Salespersons, persuasion, speaking, active Listening, service Orientation and other 10 skills are required.
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General Job Description and Education/Training Levels for Retail Salespersons

Retail Salespersons occupations usually require a high school diploma. 63.45% of Retail Salespersons have High School Diploma (or the equivalent) and 2.02% of Retail Salespersons have Post-Secondary Certificate. You can check detailed job description, required skiils, activities, and more detailed description at Retail Salespersons tasks, skills, and ability page.
The following graph shows the percentage of earned degrees held by Retail Salespersons occupational group.
Less than a High School Diploma
19.32%
High School Diploma (or the equivalent)
63.45%
Post-Secondary Certificate
2.02%
Some College Courses
1.42%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)
9.79%
Bachelor's Degree and Above
4.00%