SOC 41-9091.00

    Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers

    Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.

    Median pay
    $41,380
    Growth
    -10.4%
    Decline
    Openings a year
    4,800
    Typical education
    No formal credential

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $32,010
    Median
    $41,380
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $51,470
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    2,760 people work in this occupation.

    What door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.

    Usually a high school diploma; some on-the-job training or experience.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R)
    43 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    0 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    17 / 100
    Social (S)
    30 / 100
    Enterprising (E) · strongest
    75 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    62 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

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    What you'd do

    Selling or Influencing Others
    90
    Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
    87
    Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
    82
    Communicating with People Outside the Organization
    71
    Getting Information
    68
    Coaching and Developing Others
    66
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    66
    Developing and Building Teams
    64
    Working with Computers
    63
    Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
    60
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Persuasion
    • Speaking
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Service Orientation
    • Active Listening
    • Coordination
    • Negotiation
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Critical Thinking

    Knowledge

    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Sales and Marketing
    • English Language
    • Administrative
    • Administration and Management
    • Education and Training
    • Personnel and Human Resources
    • Psychology
    • Communications and Media
    • Computers and Electronics

    Abilities

    • Oral Expression
    • Oral Comprehension
    • Speech Clarity
    • Speech Recognition
    • Written Expression
    • Information Ordering
    • Written Comprehension
    • Deductive Reasoning
    • Fluency of Ideas
    • Near Vision

    Work styles

    • Perseverance
    • Achievement Orientation
    • Social Orientation
    • Optimism
    • Self-Confidence
    • Initiative
    • Dependability
    • Adaptability
    • Tolerance for Ambiguity
    • Stress Tolerance

    Also called

    Balloon Seller · Beauty Consultant · Beauty Counselor · Book Agent · Book Canvasser · Book Solicitor · Bumboater · Candy Butcher · Candy Vendor · Canvasser

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.