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By the BLS count there are 430 advertising sales agents in the Milwaukee metro earning a median of $66,790. The role, the money and the market, in that order.
By the BLS count there are 430 advertising sales agents in the Milwaukee metro earning a median of $66,790. The role, the money and the market, in that order.
It is remote-flexible with a local market presence: the territory is the Milwaukee metro, but you can live anywhere and many reps sell into their market from outside it. What the rep does: build a list of local businesses in the Milwaukee metro, open conversations, run discovery, present a plan and close. The fulfillment team then builds and runs the campaigns.
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.
One account at $3,000 a month is $540 a month to you. Stack twenty at that average and the book pays $10,800 a month on its own. Who it is for: hunters who self-direct, former local-media reps who know how to talk to business owners, and people with a side business who want compounding referral income. Who it is not for: anyone who needs a guaranteed paycheck on day one.
Start with the count: 430 advertising sales agents in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI (0.5 per 1,000 jobs). The concentration figure is the useful one: a location quotient of 0.9 puts the occupation at about its national concentration, neither crowded nor empty. The median advertising sales agent in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI earns $66,790 (mean $78,520), 3 percent above 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.
| Occupation (SOC) | Jobs | Mean annual | Median annual | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 430 | $78,520 | $66,790 | 3 percent above |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 4,610 | $80,010 | $73,880 | 6 percent below |
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 10,790 | $82,790 | $73,880 | about the same as |
The business base is 39,486 establishments with employees, 25.2 per 1,000 residents, in line with the national figure (US: 25). Among the trades that buy local advertising most often, the largest here are restaurants (2,642), physicians' offices (1,414) and personal care services (849). 1,739 of those businesses are home-services contractors, 4.4% of everything, about the same as the US share. Where competition is thickest: child care centers, 1.7 times as common here as in the country at large. More on the local business landscape: Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI.
Inside the city limits of Milwaukee: 566,973 people, a median household income of $54,234 (31 percent below the metro), a median home value of $184,000 (40 percent below the metro) and homeownership of 41.8%. A four-year degree or more: 97,916 adults, 27.4% of the adult population. The civilian labor force is 283,072 people, 17,436 of them unemployed (6.2%). Milwaukee holds 36.1% of the metro's 1.57 million residents. The city has 232,520 occupied homes, 97,223 of them owner-occupied and 135,297 rented. Residents have a median age of 32.4. The metro and state pages carry the complete figures: Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, Wisconsin.
Data: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012). US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Milwaukee city and the Milwaukee 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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