There are 320 advertising sales agents in the Providence metro and the median earns $49,120, according to the BLS. A look at the job and at Providence as a place to sell advertising.
This is a hunter role in Providence, RI: you generate your own prospects, hold the conversations, close the agreements and onboard the accounts to fulfillment. You do not have to live in Providence. The territory is the metro, the work is mostly phone, video and email, and some reps meet business owners in person because it helps them close.
Pay is a flat 18% recurring commission on every dollar of ad spend your accounts run, every month, for as long as they keep running it and you keep the relationship in good standing. There is no base salary, no hourly and no draw; it is a 1099 role.
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.
There are 320 advertising sales agents in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA; per 1,000 jobs that is 0.5. In relative terms 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. Pay in the occupation runs a mean of $64,680 and a median of $49,120 a year, against $80,670 and $64,820 nationally, so local wages are 24 percent below the US median. Treat the BLS wage as the local benchmark for the skill. A rep on the 18% residual model is building an asset, so the useful question is how many accounts the market can support, not the median wage.
| Occupation (SOC) | Jobs | Mean annual | Median annual | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 6,400 | $93,320 | $78,480 | 9 percent above |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 4,080 | $88,750 | $83,960 | 7 percent above |
| Web developers 15-1254 | 410 | $102,370 | $98,140 | 6 percent above |
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 320 | $64,680 | $49,120 | 24 percent below |
Who would you be calling on? 42,731 employer establishments in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, 25.4 per 1,000 residents, in line with the national figure. The most common prospects by count: restaurants (3,670), landscaping companies (1,137) and law firms (1,004). Home services, the category that advertises most consistently, is 2,958 establishments here, 6.9% of the base and 2 points above the US share. Landscaping companies are unusually common here, 1.9 times their national share; crowded trades are where a well-run campaign is easiest to sell. Every trade in the metro, counted and compared with the US mix, is on the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA market page.
191,767 people live in Providence. The median household income of $68,119 runs 22 percent below the metro figure; the median home value of $362,200 is 14 percent below the metro median; 41.4% of homes are owned rather than rented. A four-year degree or more: 42,014 adults, 34.6% of the adult population. 71,497 households live here; 29,601 own their home and 41,896 rent. That is 11.4% of the 1.68 million people in the metro. The civilian labor force is 101,717 people, 8,336 of them unemployed (8.2%). Median age: 32.8. The same data for the whole metro and for the state: Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, Rhode Island.
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Providence-Warwick, RI-MA (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012). US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Providence city and the Providence 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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