Advertising sales is an established trade here: 760 agents in the Jacksonville metro, median pay $56,320. Below: what the job is, how the money works, and what the public data says about Jacksonville as a market.
You would be the person local business owners in Jacksonville, FL talk to about advertising: prospecting, discovery, the pitch, the close, and the ongoing relationship. Remote-flexible means exactly that. The territory is the Jacksonville metro; where you sit while you work it is up to you.
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 reps who do well here self-direct, prospect daily and think in terms of a book of business rather than a quota. The ones who struggle need a salary, assigned leads or a manager checking in daily. 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.
Put in national context, 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. Employment in the occupation: 760 advertising sales agents across Jacksonville, FL, or 1 per 1,000 jobs. Wages: mean $66,270, median $56,320. Nationally the same occupation pays a mean of $80,670 and a median of $64,820, so the Jacksonville metro sits 13 percent below the country. Keep in mind what the BLS is measuring: mostly salaried media and agency sellers. The residual model here has no cap, so those figures describe the local going rate for the skill rather than what a book of accounts can pay.
| Occupation (SOC) | Jobs | Mean annual | Median annual | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 760 | $66,270 | $56,320 | 13 percent below |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 4,380 | $84,340 | $76,740 | about the same as |
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 6,450 | $74,730 | $61,160 | 15 percent below |
Jacksonville proper counts 977,670 residents with a median household income of $69,872, 12 percent below the metro as a whole. Homes carry a median value of $293,700 (14 percent below the metro figure) and 57.6% are owner-occupied. The median age is 36.5. The city accounts for 58.1% of the metro population of 1.68 million. A four-year degree or more: 222,474 adults, 33.2% of the adult population. Of 394,370 households, 227,054 are owners and 167,316 are renters. The civilian labor force is 497,491 people, 22,790 of them unemployed (4.6%). See also: 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.
The business base is 44,152 establishments with employees, 26.2 per 1,000 residents, 5 percent above the national figure (US: 25). The home-services trades alone account for 2,477 establishments (5.6% of the base, about the same as the US share), and they are the accounts that run month after month. Of the categories that typically spend on local marketing, the largest in Jacksonville, FL are restaurants (3,018), physicians' offices (1,661) and personal care services (1,111). One trade stands out against the national mix: specialty trade contractors hold about 1.6 times the share of the local base they hold nationally, which means more of them competing for the same customers and more reason to advertise. More on the local business landscape: Jacksonville, FL.
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