Louisiana·Sales and Related Occupations·SOC 41-1011

Best First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Worker programs in Louisiana, ranked by enrollment

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of retail sales workers in an establishment or department.

2 schools in Louisiana run programs that feed this job, graduating 42 people a year. The job pays a median of $43,860 in Louisiana across about 16,910 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledShift ManagerStore ManagerDepartment ManagerMeat Department ManagerKey HolderKey CarrierShop ManagerFloor Manager
Graduates / yr
42
in Louisiana
Median pay · Louisiana
$43,860
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
16,910
people employed
Schools
2
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
28%
across those schools
Median net price
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Louisiana that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in Louisiana that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Louisiana (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Louisiana page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 52.0212In Louisiana
42
100.0%
2$43,506$25,000

Top 2 schools in Louisiana

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 1 of the 2 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Baton Rouge Community College
Baton Rouge, LA Public · 1 feeder programs
39Retail Management31%
2Delgado Community College
New Orleans, LA Public · 1 feeder programs
3Retail Management$27,50924%

All 2 schools in Louisiana

Every school in Louisiana with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in Louisiana that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Baton Rouge Community CollegeBaton RougePublic391
Delgado Community CollegeNew OrleansPublic31

What first-line supervisors of retail sales workers earn in Louisiana

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in Louisiana
$43,860
Mean annual
$46,360
Jobs in state
16,910
What the range looks like
10th pct$27,720Median$43,86090th pct$71,290
Versus the national median
-9.6%

U.S. median $48,520. Louisiana pays below the national figure.

Job concentration
1.21×

Concentrated here: Louisiana employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.

Metro areas in Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA
$47,400median
2,930 jobs
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA
$47,120median
950 jobs
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
$45,090median
3,590 jobs
Hammond, LA
$43,830median
550 jobs
Lake Charles, LA
$46,230median
890 jobs
Lafayette, LA
$43,710median
1,770 jobs
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
$42,840median
1,450 jobs
Alexandria, LA
$42,500median
580 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
-5.0%
Decline
Openings per year
125,100
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
-72,300
1,432,600 → 1,360,300
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers page.

How to become a First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Worker

Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Work experience needed
Less than 5 years

Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.

Top skills

Active ListeningSpeakingMonitoringCritical ThinkingWritingLearning Strategies

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in Louisiana

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 8 majors mapped to First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers8 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 01.0608Floriculture/Floristry Operations and Management
  • 19.0203Consumer Merchandising/Retailing Management
  • 52.0208E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce
  • 52.0212Retail Management
  • 52.1803Retailing and Retail Operations
  • 52.1804Selling Skills and Sales Operations
  • 52.1899General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations, Other
  • 52.1909Special Products Marketing Operations

Common questions

Answers for people weighing first-line supervisors of retail sales workers programs in Louisiana.

What degree do you need to become a First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Worker?+

High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Retail Management, which awarded 42 degrees in Louisiana in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Worker?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Business Administration. Together they graduate about 42 people a year in Louisiana.

How much do first-line supervisors of retail sales workers earn in Louisiana?+

The median is $43,860 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 9.6% below the U.S. median of $48,520. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for first-line supervisors of retail sales workers growing?+

BLS projects a -5.0% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, decline, with roughly 125,100 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in Louisiana?+

2 institutions in Louisiana reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do first-line supervisors of retail sales workers work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Shift Manager, Store Manager, Department Manager, Meat Department Manager among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 41-1011.

First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers in other statesCaliforniaWisconsinOhioUtahWashingtonIndianaKentuckyIllinois
Programs in LouisianaRetail Management

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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