Career
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
Sell goods door to door and on the street.
$41,380
Median pay
-10.4%
Job growth, 2025–35
4,800
Openings a year
No formal educational credential
Typical education
None required
Typical time after high school
Here's what you actually need to know.
The work
What people in this job do
- Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.
- Develop prospect lists.
- Deliver merchandise and collect payment.
- Write and record orders for merchandise or enter orders into computers.
- Arrange buying parties and solicit sponsorship of such parties to sell merchandise.
The outlook
How the forecast changed this year
The deeper question
What kind of person does this path ask you to become?
What this work centers on
O*NET interest profile, scored 1–7.
The work
Do you want most of your days spent on persuasion & leadership, then information & systems?
Responsibility
Are you willing to be the one responsible for this?
“Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.”
Development
What would you need to build over the next 5–10 years?
Speaking, Persuasion, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation.
Trade-offs
What does it ask of you in exchange?
No degree beyond high school, though short-term on-the-job training is typical, for a median of $41,380 a year and 4,800 openings nationally each year.
Paths in
Degrees that lead here
- NO MATCHCIP 99.9999
Paths across
Careers that use similar skills
- Retail Salespersons$35,410 · -0.3%
- Counter and Rental Clerks$41,300 · +3.0%
- Demonstrators and Product Promoters$39,320 · +0.2%
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$72,080 · -0.9%
- Cashiers$32,880 · -6.5%
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Sources
- BLS Employment Projections, 2025–35, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34 (archived), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- O*NET 31.0 Database (August 2026), National Center for O*NET Development / U.S. Department of Labor. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
- CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 Crosswalk, NCES and BLS. Retrieved 2026-10-01.