Sales is a good job in a recession!

Sales is remaining a reasonably well-paid job, probably because smart firms see sales as even more important when times are hard… and compensate their professionals accordingly.

The amount of sales jobs increased by 11% since 2007 to roughly 16 million sales jobs in the United States  in 2008, (the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Arguably the recession was already underway when those numbers were compiled.

So, even though times are tough.... sales is not a bad place to be!