There are 140 advertising sales agents in the Akron metro and the median earns $61,700, according to the BLS. Here is the role, the way it pays, and a data-driven look at the businesses you would be calling on.
This is a hunter role in Akron, OH: you generate your own prospects, hold the conversations, close the agreements and onboard the accounts to fulfillment. Nobody assigns a desk. Reps work from home, from the road or from a coffee shop in Akron; results are what get measured.
The compensation model is one number: 18% flat, recurring, on every dollar of monthly ad spend across your accounts, paid every month the account runs. No base, no draw, no cap; you are a 1099 contractor building a book.
The right fit is a self-directed hunter who can prospect and close without micromanagement and can stomach a 60-to-90-day ramp. The wrong fit is someone who needs a base salary or assigned leads. One account at $3,000 a month is $540 a month to you. Stack twenty at that average and the book pays $10,800 a month on its own.
In relative terms a location quotient of 0.7 means the occupation is thinner here than in the US workforce, which usually means many local businesses have never had a dedicated advertising rep. Akron, OH employs 140 advertising sales agents, 0.4 per 1,000 jobs. The median advertising sales agent in Akron, OH earns $61,700 (mean $68,690), 5 percent below the US median of $64,820. Those are W2 figures for salaried and base-plus-commission sellers; the YelloPost seat is 100% commission and uncapped, so the BLS numbers are the floor the market already pays for this skill, not a ceiling.
| Occupation (SOC) | Jobs | Mean annual | Median annual | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 140 | $68,690 | $61,700 | 5 percent below |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 1,480 | $73,430 | $66,000 | 16 percent below |
| Web developers 15-1254 | 110 | $87,890 | $77,690 | 16 percent below |
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 4,170 | $84,090 | $74,990 | 4 percent above |
The territory holds 16,360 employer businesses, 23.4 per 1,000 residents, 6 percent below the national figure. Of the categories that typically spend on local marketing, the largest in Akron, OH are restaurants (1,268), physicians' offices (341) and personal care services (340). For a rep the home-services slice matters most: 771 contractors, 4.7% of local establishments, about the same as the US share. Where competition is thickest: road and paving contractors, 1.3 times as common here as in the country at large. The Akron, OH market page breaks all twenty trades out.
189,247 people live in Akron. The median household income of $48,076 runs 34 percent below the metro figure; the median home value of $122,000 is 43 percent below the metro median; 50.7% of homes are owned rather than rented. Residents have a median age of 36.9. 84,734 households live here; 42,929 own their home and 41,805 rent. 30,267 adults, 23.6% of those 25 and over, hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The city accounts for 27% of the metro population of 699,820. The civilian labor force is 96,423 people, 7,541 of them unemployed (7.8%). The same data for the whole metro and for the state: Akron, OH, Ohio.
Data: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Akron, OH (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012). US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Akron city and the Akron metro. County Business Patterns 2023. The national figures are from the same BLS and Census releases; the pay model described is YelloPost's.
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