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    Driver/Sales Workers

    Drive truck or other vehicle over established routes or within an established territory and sell or deliver goods, such as food products, including restaurant take-out items, or pick up or deliver items such as commercial laundry.

    Median pay
    $38,770
    Growth
    +7.9%
    Faster than average
    Openings a year
    45,500
    Typical education
    High school diploma

    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
    $22,590
    Median
    $38,770
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $59,980
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    409,180 people work in this occupation.

    What driver/sales workers do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Drive truck or other vehicle over established routes or within an established territory and sell or deliver goods, such as food products, including restaurant take-out items, or pick up or deliver items such as commercial laundry. May also take orders, collect payment, or stock merchandise at point of delivery.

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

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R) · strongest
    72 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    0 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    0 / 100
    Social (S)
    24 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    45 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    61 / 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.

    Interest code RCE. Compare it with yours

    What you'd do

    Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment
    90
    Handling and Moving Objects
    89
    Performing General Physical Activities
    84
    Getting Information
    74
    Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
    73
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    68
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    67
    Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
    66
    Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
    64
    Documenting/Recording Information
    56
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Active Listening
    • Speaking
    • Critical Thinking
    • Service Orientation
    • Complex Problem Solving
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Time Management
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Monitoring

    Knowledge

    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Food Production
    • English Language
    • Transportation
    • Public Safety and Security
    • Administration and Management
    • Sales and Marketing
    • Mathematics
    • Production and Processing
    • Computers and Electronics

    Abilities

    • Oral Comprehension
    • Oral Expression
    • Near Vision
    • Problem Sensitivity
    • Speech Clarity
    • Speech Recognition
    • Arm-Hand Steadiness
    • Category Flexibility
    • Control Precision
    • Deductive Reasoning

    Work styles

    • Dependability
    • Social Orientation
    • Perseverance
    • Attention to Detail
    • Integrity
    • Self-Control
    • Optimism
    • Achievement Orientation
    • Cautiousness
    • Cooperation

    Also called

    Automotive Parts Delivery Driver (Auto Parts Delivery Driver) · Bakery Deliverer · Bobtailer · Bread Distributor · Bread Jockey · Breadman · Catering Driver · City Route Driver · City Routeman · Coal Deliverer

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    Certifications, licenses and pay by state

    What driver/sales workers may need beyond a degree, where a license is required, and what the work pays in each state.

    Certifications

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    Licenses by state

    3 states list a license for this work. Open your state for the license and the agency that issues it.

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    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 9, 2026.

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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.

    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 9, 2026.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.