the Kansas City metro employs 730 advertising sales agents at a median of $58,450 a year, per the BLS. Here is the role, the way it pays, and a data-driven look at the businesses you would be calling on.
Remote-flexible means exactly that. The territory is the Kansas City metro; where you sit while you work it is up to you. You would be the person local business owners in Kansas City, MO talk to about advertising: prospecting, discovery, the pitch, the close, and the ongoing relationship.
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.
Put in national context, a location quotient of 1.1 puts the occupation at about its national concentration, neither crowded nor empty. Start with the count: 730 advertising sales agents in Kansas City, MO-KS (0.7 per 1,000 jobs). The median advertising sales agent in Kansas City, MO-KS earns $58,450 (mean $68,190), 10 percent below the US median of $64,820. 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.
| Role | Employment | Mean wage | Median wage | Local median vs US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web developers 15-1254 | 520 | $100,490 | $89,420 | 3 percent below |
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 730 | $68,190 | $58,450 | 10 percent below |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 6,920 | $80,300 | $72,580 | 8 percent below |
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 9,930 | $81,180 | $66,250 | 8 percent below |
County Business Patterns counts 55,104 employer establishments in Kansas City, MO-KS, 24.8 for every 1,000 residents (in line with the national figure; the US rate is 25). The biggest categories of local advertiser in the metro are restaurants (3,747), law firms (1,310) and physicians' offices (1,174). Contractors in the home-services trades total 2,881, or 5.2% of the base, about the same as the US share. Specialty trade contractors are unusually common here, 1.5 times their national share; crowded trades are where a well-run campaign is easiest to sell. More on the local business landscape: Kansas City, MO-KS.
The city of Kansas City itself has 510,612 residents. The median household earns $69,166 a year, 17 percent below the metro-wide figure, and the median home is valued at $242,900, 15 percent below the metro median; 55.4% of homes are owner-occupied. Of 279,828 people in the labor force, 12,174 are unemployed, a rate of 4.4%. Median age: 35.8. The city accounts for 23% of the metro population of 2.22 million. 221,979 households live here; 122,952 own their home and 99,027 rent. A four-year degree or more: 133,998 adults, 38.4% of the adult population. The same data for the whole metro and for the state: Kansas City, MO-KS, Missouri.
Sources: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Kansas City, MO-KS (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012); US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Kansas City city and the Kansas City 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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