In the Jacksonville metro the BLS counts 760 advertising sales agents; the median wage in the occupation is $56,320. What follows is the role at YelloPost, the compensation, and the market you would be working.
The work is local business development. You prospect in the Jacksonville metro, pitch the YelloPost service line, sign accounts and maintain them; the campaigns themselves are built and run by the fulfillment team. Work it from Jacksonville or from anywhere else. The territory is what is protected, not the chair.
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.
If you can prospect, run a conversation and close without a manager watching, and you can carry yourself through the first two or three months of ramp, this seat will reward you. If you need a base salary or assigned leads, it will frustrate you. Worked example: $3,000 of monthly ad spend is $540 to the rep, every month. Twenty accounts like it are $10,800 a month.
The territory holds 44,152 employer businesses, 26.2 per 1,000 residents, 5 percent above the national figure. The biggest categories of local advertiser in the metro are restaurants (3,018), physicians' offices (1,661) and personal care services (1,111). Home services, the category that advertises most consistently, is 2,477 establishments here, 5.6% of the base and about the same as the US share. Relative to the US pattern the metro over-indexes on specialty trade contractors (1.6 times the national share), a crowded trade where advertising decides who gets the call. The full trade-by-trade table for the metro is on the Jacksonville, FL market page.
Jacksonville, FL employs 760 advertising sales agents, 1 per 1,000 jobs. Concentration matters more than the raw count: a location quotient of 1.7 means the occupation is about 1.7 times as concentrated here as in the US workforce, so local businesses are used to being called on and the reps who win are the ones who bring something new. A median of $56,320 and a mean of $66,270 for the occupation locally, 13 percent below the national 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 6,450 | $74,730 | $61,160 | 15 percent below |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 4,380 | $84,340 | $76,740 | about the same as |
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 760 | $66,270 | $56,320 | 13 percent below |
Cost context for Jacksonville: the median household income is $69,872, 12 percent below the metro, the median home value is $293,700, 14 percent below the metro, and 57.6% of the 977,670 residents' homes are owner-occupied. Of 497,491 people in the labor force, 22,790 are unemployed, a rate of 4.6%. That is 58.1% of the 1.68 million people in the metro. Of 394,370 households, 227,054 are owners and 167,316 are renters. Among adults 25 and over, 222,474 (33.2%) finished a bachelor's degree or higher. The median age is 36.5. Full Census profiles: Jacksonville, FL and Florida.
Data: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Jacksonville, FL (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012). US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Jacksonville city and the Jacksonville metro. County Business Patterns 2023. National comparisons use the same BLS and Census series. Pay terms for the YelloPost role are YelloPost's own.
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