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Account Executive pay in San Jose
What account executives in the San Jose metro earn, from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey, May 2025.
$116,510
MEDIAN PAY
41-3091
OCCUPATION CODE
Half of account executives in San Jose earn between $73,830 and $169,410. One in ten earn less than $49,500; one in ten earn more than $217,680.
BLS OEWS, May 2025 · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · 13,390 employed
BLS groups this title under Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel.
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What the work is
Sell services to individuals or businesses. May describe options or resolve client problems.
- Consult with clients after sales or contract signings to resolve problems and provide ongoing support.
- Answer customers' questions about services, prices, availability, or credit terms.
- Develop sales presentations or proposals to explain service specifications.
- Create forms or agreements to complete sales.
- Contact prospective or existing customers to discuss how services can meet their needs.
- Negotiate prices or terms of sales or service agreements.
Summary and tasks from O*NET OnLine, 41-3091.00 Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel, O*NET 31.0.
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About this data
Wages: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (public domain; BLS is the source and does not vouch for this page). This page includes information from the 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. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Licences: O*NET database licence (CC BY 4.0) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Survey figures released 15 May 2026. A figure the survey withholds is left out, never estimated. The open roles beside them are the San Jose hub's, whose machine-readable twin is at /jobs/account-executive/san-jose/data.json.