In the Indianapolis metro the BLS counts 550 advertising sales agents; the median wage in the occupation is $60,350. Below: what the job is, how the money works, and what the public data says about Indianapolis as a market.
Relative to the country, a location quotient of 0.8 means the occupation is thinner here than in the US workforce, which usually means many local businesses have never had a dedicated advertising rep. Start with the count: 550 advertising sales agents in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN (0.5 per 1,000 jobs). On pay, advertising sales agents in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN earn a mean of $70,420 and a median of $60,350 a year; the US median is $64,820, so the local median is 7 percent below it. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web developers 15-1254 | 300 | $88,410 | $82,820 | 11 percent below |
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 10,320 | $82,380 | $74,000 | about the same as |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 6,330 | $75,040 | $65,200 | 17 percent below |
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 550 | $70,420 | $60,350 | 7 percent below |
The business base is 51,076 establishments with employees, 24 per 1,000 residents, 4 percent below the national figure (US: 25). The largest pools of likely accounts are restaurants (3,842), physicians' offices (1,194) and freight trucking companies (998). The home-services trades alone account for 2,404 establishments (4.7% of the base, about the same as the US share), and they are the accounts that run month after month. Where competition is thickest: freight trucking companies, 1.4 times as common here as in the country at large. More on the local business landscape: Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN.
This is a hunter role in Indianapolis, IN: you generate your own prospects, hold the conversations, close the agreements and onboard the accounts to fulfillment. It is remote-flexible with a local market presence: the territory is the Indianapolis metro, but you can live anywhere and many reps sell into their market from outside it.
You are paid 18% recurring on the ad spend of every account you sign and maintain, every month. There is no base salary and no draw, and there is no cap on how many accounts you can stack.
A single $3,000-a-month account yields $540 a month; twenty of them yield $10,800 a month, and the book keeps paying while you keep it strong. It suits people who want to build a book that pays them residually for years, including reps from the legacy local-advertising platforms who know the territory and the playbook, and anyone running a side business who wants a referral-style income channel. It does not suit anyone who needs a guaranteed paycheck on day one or who wants leads handed to them.
Life in Indianapolis: 885,860 residents, households earning a median of $66,219 (17 percent below the metro figure), homes valued at a median of $224,800 (15 percent below the metro) and an ownership rate of 56%. The civilian labor force is 472,847 people, 24,025 of them unemployed (5.1%). A four-year degree or more: 202,606 adults, 34.9% of the adult population. The median age is 34.3. 362,961 households live here; 203,339 own their home and 159,622 rent. Indianapolis holds 41.6% of the metro's 2.13 million residents. See also: Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN and Indiana.
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012). US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Indianapolis city (balance) and the Indianapolis metro. County Business Patterns 2023. US comparison figures come from the same series. The commission terms are YelloPost's, not a government statistic.
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