Virginia·Sales and Related Occupations·SOC 41-1012

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

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of sales workers other than retail sales workers.

1 schools in Virginia run programs that feed this job, graduating 7 people a year. The job pays a median of $98,170 in Virginia across about 9,020 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledSales LeaderSales SupervisorReservations SupervisorCustomer Service SupervisorSales CounselorShift SupervisorSales Team LeaderDry Cleaning Manager
Graduates / yr
7
in Virginia
Median pay · Virginia
$98,170
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
9,020
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
34%
across those schools
Median net price
$21,249
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in Virginia that lead to this job

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

1 programs in Virginia that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in Virginia (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 Virginia page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
1
CIP 52.1899In Virginia
7
100.0%
1$50,281$24,250

Top 1 schools in Virginia

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1Virginia Union University
Richmond, VA Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
7General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations, Other34%$21,24998%

All 1 schools in Virginia

Every school in Virginia 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 Virginia that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
Virginia Union UniversityRichmondPrivate not-for-profit71

What first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers earn in Virginia

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

Median annual in Virginia
$98,170
Mean annual
$109,320
Jobs in state
9,020
What the range looks like
10th pct$50,860Median$98,17090th pct$179,710
Versus the national median
+12.2%

U.S. median $87,520. Virginia pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
1.59×

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

Metro areas in Virginia

Richmond, VA
$99,960median
1,470 jobs
Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
$90,580median
90 jobs
Winchester, VA-WV
$94,750median
150 jobs
Lynchburg, VA
$87,290median
210 jobs
Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC
$91,080median
1,450 jobs
Roanoke, VA
$87,630median
360 jobs
Charlottesville, VA
$80,350median
170 jobs
Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA
$79,320median
80 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
0.0%
Little or no change
Openings per year
24,800
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
0
320,000 → 320,000
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 Non-Retail Sales Workers page.

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

Job zone 4 of 5 · SVP 7.0 to < 8.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Work experience needed
Less than 5 years

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

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The same job in other states

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

Related careers in Virginia

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 3 majors mapped to First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers3 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 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 non-retail sales workers programs in Virginia.

What degree do you need to become a First-Line Supervisors of Non-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 General Merchandising, Sales, and Related Marketing Operations, Other, which awarded 7 degrees in Virginia 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 Non-Retail Sales Worker?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are General Sales. Together they graduate about 7 people a year in Virginia.

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

The median is $98,170 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 12.2% above the U.S. median of $87,520. 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 non-retail sales workers growing?+

BLS projects a +0.0% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, little or no change, with roughly 24,800 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

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

1 institutions in Virginia 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 non-retail sales workers work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Sales Leader, Sales Supervisor, Reservations Supervisor, Customer Service Supervisor among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 41-1012.

First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers in other statesUtahKentuckyIndianaOhioPennsylvaniaKansasIowaIllinois

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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