There are 260 advertising sales agents in the Honolulu metro and the median earns $61,290, according to the BLS. Read on for the seat itself, the residual pay model, and the shape of the local business base.
Put in national context, a location quotient of 1 puts the occupation at about its national concentration, neither crowded nor empty. Employment in the occupation: 260 advertising sales agents across Urban Honolulu, HI, or 0.6 per 1,000 jobs. The mean annual wage for the occupation here is $63,650 and the median $61,290; the national figures are $80,670 and $64,820, which puts the Honolulu metro 5 percent below the US median. Those numbers describe the salaried version of this job in Urban Honolulu, HI. The version on this page pays a share of monthly ad spend with no cap, which is why the size of the local business base matters more than the median wage.
| Role | Employment | Mean wage | Median wage | Local median vs US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 2,480 | $74,260 | $59,190 | 18 percent below |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 1,090 | $69,720 | $62,990 | 20 percent below |
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 260 | $63,650 | $61,290 | 5 percent below |
By the Census count there are 20,890 establishments with payroll in Urban Honolulu, HI, a density of 20.9 per 1,000 people, 16 percent below the national figure. The most common prospects by count: restaurants (2,194), physicians' offices (699) and personal care services (454). Home services, the category that advertises most consistently, is 778 establishments here, 3.7% of the base and 1 points below the US share. Restaurants are unusually common here, 1.4 times their national share; crowded trades are where a well-run campaign is easiest to sell. More on the local business landscape: Urban Honolulu, HI.
This is a hunter role in Honolulu, HI: you generate your own prospects, hold the conversations, close the agreements and onboard the accounts to fulfillment. The seat is remote-flexible: local presence in the Honolulu metro helps, but the role is judged on signed accounts, not on hours in an office.
How the money works: 18% of every dollar of ad spend your accounts run, paid monthly for as long as they run and you maintain them. No base salary, no hourly, no draw, no ceiling.
The arithmetic: a $3,000-a-month account pays you $540 a month for as long as it runs; twenty such accounts pay $10,800 a month. This is for people who would rather own their accounts than rent them: self-starters, reps from the local-advertising world, side-business owners with a network. It is not for anyone who wants a salary, a draw or a lead list.
Cost context for Honolulu: the median household income is $86,504, 19 percent below the metro, the median home value is $843,400, 6 percent below the metro, and 48.9% of the 345,482 residents' homes are owner-occupied. Median age: 43. Of 136,902 households, 66,990 are owners and 69,912 are renters. 108,460 adults, 41.5% of those 25 and over, hold a bachelor's degree or higher. The city accounts for 34.5% of the metro population of 1 million. Of 182,353 people in the labor force, 8,812 are unemployed, a rate of 4.8%. For the wider picture see Urban Honolulu, HI and the statewide Hawaii profile.
Sources: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Urban Honolulu, HI (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 41-4012); US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Urban Honolulu CDP and the Honolulu metro; County Business Patterns 2023. Comparisons with the US use the same sources. YelloPost pay terms are the company's own.
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