By the BLS count there are 300 advertising sales agents in the Virginia Beach metro earning a median of $48,420. The role, the money and the market, in that order.
The concentration figure is the useful one: a location quotient of 0.7 means the occupation is thinner here than in the US workforce, which usually means many local businesses have never had a dedicated advertising rep. The BLS counts 300 advertising sales agents in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC, 0.4 for every 1,000 jobs in the area. Pay in the occupation runs a mean of $64,980 and a median of $48,420 a year, against $80,670 and $64,820 nationally, so local wages are 25 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 | Employed | Mean pay | Median pay | Median vs US |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives 41-4012 | 3,650 | $76,450 | $61,780 | 14 percent below |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists 13-1161 | 3,500 | $75,210 | $69,560 | 12 percent below |
| Web developers 15-1254 | 400 | $109,360 | $103,440 | 12 percent above |
| Advertising sales agents 41-3011 | 300 | $64,980 | $48,420 | 25 percent below |
By the Census count there are 39,669 establishments with payroll in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC, a density of 22.2 per 1,000 people, 11 percent below the national figure. For a rep the home-services slice matters most: 2,127 contractors, 5.4% of local establishments, about the same as the US share. Counted by establishment, the top local trades are restaurants (3,693), personal care services (1,063) and physicians' offices (940). One trade stands out against the national mix: self-storage operators hold about 1.7 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. The full trade-by-trade table for the metro is on the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC market page.
What the rep does: build a list of local businesses in the Virginia Beach metro, open conversations, run discovery, present a plan and close. The fulfillment team then builds and runs the campaigns. It is remote-flexible with a local market presence: the territory is the Virginia Beach metro, but you can live anywhere and many reps sell into their market from outside it.
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 right fit is a self-directed hunter who can prospect and close without micromanagement and can stomach a 60-to-90-day ramp. The wrong fit is someone who needs a base salary or assigned leads. Sign an account spending $3,000 a month and you earn $540 a month on it, automatically; twenty accounts at that average is $10,800 a month before you close another deal.
Cost context for Virginia Beach: the median household income is $92,968, 13 percent above the metro, the median home value is $382,500, 12 percent above the metro, and 65.1% of the 456,349 residents' homes are owner-occupied. That is 25.5% of the 1.79 million people in the metro. Residents have a median age of 37.9. Among adults 25 and over, 130,152 (40.9%) finished a bachelor's degree or higher. Of 179,851 households, 117,165 are owners and 62,686 are renters. A labor force of 229,840 carries 9,112 unemployed, an unemployment rate of 4%. See also: Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC and Virginia.
Data: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, metropolitan area Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC (SOC 41-3011, 13-1161, 15-1254, 41-4012). US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates for Virginia Beach city and the Virginia Beach metro. County Business Patterns 2023. Comparisons with the US use the same sources. YelloPost pay terms are the company's own.
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