Week of Oct 19, 2026 – Oct 25, 2026 · final, last updated Oct 25, 2026 11:11 PM ET
OTE Jobs is tracking 12,324 open sales roles at 1457 tech companies, 7,119 of them in the US. In the last 7 days employers posted 1,220 of the roles that are still open (761 in the US).
The busiest hirers right now are T-Mobile, Salesforce and Databricks, 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 $153k for core AE roles (n=1462), $216k for senior and enterprise AEs (n=1271), $85k for SDRs and BDRs (n=417) and $188k for sales engineers (n=938).
Remote work: 41% of US sales roles are remote and 21% hybrid. The typical US opening was posted 51 days ago.
Churn: since Oct 18, 2026, 1,197 sales roles appeared on the career boards we track and 847 were taken down.
Versus Oct 18, 2026, at the 1,466 companies we tracked then: open roles went from 11,702 to 11,707 (+0.0%). We also started tracking 29 more companies since then; their roles count as a new baseline, not as growth.