Retail Salespersons
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 20,910.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 41-2031
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
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$35,230 · 50th
$31,20010th
$32,02025th
$35,23050th
$37,85075th
$46,57090th
That is the median — half of retail salespersons in Providence earn more.
Table 1 — Adjusted
$35,230 in Providence buys what $34,600 buys across the country as a whole.
Providence's regional price parity is 101.8 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 20,910 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 41-2031, Retail Salespersons. Mapped to our taxonomy as retail-salespersons.
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