Week of Oct 12, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · final, last updated Oct 18, 2026 6:23 PM ET
OTE Jobs is tracking 11,702 open sales roles at 1466 tech companies, 6,640 of them in the US. In the last 7 days employers posted 1,106 of the roles that are still open (612 in the US).
The busiest hirers right now are ServiceNow, Salesforce and Stripe, by roles posted in the last 30 days. Other leads industries for new sales roles, and New York has the most open roles of any US metro.
Pay: the median posted range midpoint is $165k for core AE roles (n=1234), $220k for senior and enterprise AEs (n=1163), $82k for SDRs and BDRs (n=416) and $189k for sales engineers (n=865).
Remote work: 39% of US sales roles are remote and 22% hybrid. The typical US opening was posted 53 days ago.
Churn: since Oct 16, 2026, 296 sales roles appeared on the career boards we track and 73 were taken down.
Week-over-week trends start once we have 7 days of daily snapshots (tracking since Oct 18, 2026).