Property Sales Brokers Salaries, Locations, and Schools

Employment Overview

If you add up all the property sales brokers in the country you get a total of about 131,000. There has been a very low unemployment rate for workers. An unfortunate 1% of employees were without jobs in 2006.

Flexibility

Property sales brokers who work for themselves total about 64%. Government statistics report that 16% of workers are employed part-time.

Education

Work experience in a related occupation is often necessary for working in the field. About 45% of property sales brokers have earned a degree. Some college, below a 4-year degree, is sufficient for 37% of workers. Employees with only a high school education represent about 18% of all.

Local Outlook

Property sales brokers appear most common in Santa Fe (New Mexico), Wilmington (North Carolina), and Charlotte (North Carolina), and least common in Jackson (Mississippi), Houston (Texas), and Birmingham (Alabama). Framingham (Massachusetts), San Francisco (California), and Jacksonville (Florida) offer the highest pay. Fayetteville (North Carolina), Hickory (North Carolina), and Greenville (North Carolina) offer the lowest salaries.

Detailed local employment conditions for Property Sales Brokers in metro areas across the US are shown in the table below.

Local Jobs Info for Property Sales Brokers

Employment info for Property Sales Brokers, by metropolitan area (for 2006). A Market Strength rating of 1.0 means the city (and surroundings) has an average number of workers in the occupation for to its population. A higher number indicates relatively more workers for the occupation in that location.

State	City and Surroundings	Market Strength	Workers	Median Wage
Alabama	Birmingham	0.32	50	$104,000
Arizona	Phoenix	2.84	1,660	$80,000
California	Los Angeles	1.14	1,460	$84,000
California	Oakland	1.72	540	$114,000
California	Riverside	0.75	300	$67,000
California	Sacramento	1.01	280	$102,000
California	San Diego	1.77	720	$116,000
California	San Francisco	1.64	490	$142,000
California	San Jose	0.68	190	$99,000
California	Santa Ana	1.87	890	$83,000
California	Visalia	2.54	100
Colorado	Denver	2.89	1,100	$76,000
Connecticut	New Haven	0.48	40
Delaware	Wilmington	1.01	100	$81,000
District of Columbia	Washington	1.5	1,070	$72,000
Florida	Cape Coral	2.67	170
Florida	Fort Walton Beach	5.4	120
Florida	Jacksonville	1.88	350	$129,000
Florida	Lakeland	2.55	150	$47,000
Florida	Miami	1.57	480	$89,000
Florida	Naples	4.58	170	$85,000
Florida	Orlando	1.47	480	$67,000
Florida	Palm Bay	1.2	70	$94,000
Florida	Port St Lucie	5.01	190
Florida	Sarasota	3.43	290
Florida	Tampa	2.15	830	$69,000
Florida	West Palm Beach	2.68	460	$132,000
Georgia	Atlanta	1	740	$90,000
Georgia	Augusta	1.33	80	$72,000
Illinois	Chicago	1.65	1,950	$70,000
Indiana	Evansville	0.98	50
Indiana	Gary	1.44	120
Indiana	Indianapolis	1.29	350	$90,000
Indiana	Lafayette	1.46	30	$47,000
Iowa	Davenport	0.76	40	$77,000
Iowa	Des Moines	1.46	140	$61,000
Kansas	Wichita	0.44	40
Maine	Portland	3.12	180	$88,000
Maryland	Baltimore	1.17	460	$54,000
Maryland	Bethesda	2.87	490	$74,000
Massachusetts	Framingham	1.96	90	$136,000
Massachusetts	Springfield	0.89	80	$44,000
Michigan	Grand Rapids	1.04	120
Michigan	Warren	1.06	380	$75,000
Minnesota	Minneapolis	0.67	370	$107,000
Mississippi	Jackson	0.4	30
Missouri	Columbia	1.77	40	$37,000
Missouri	Kansas City	0.42	130	$52,000
Missouri	Springfield	1.06	60	$52,000
Missouri	St Louis	0.58	240	$82,000
Nebraska	Omaha	0.51	70	$46,000
Nevada	Las Vegas	0.7	200
New Jersey	Edison	0.51	160	$105,000
New Jersey	Newark	0.58	180	$62,000
New Jersey	Ocean City	3.75	40	$134,000
New Mexico	Albuquerque	1.38	160
New Mexico	Santa Fe	6.92	100	$109,000
New York	Buffalo	1.36	220	$82,000
New York	Nassau	1.42	540	$65,000
New York	New York	2.66	4,130	$129,000
New York	Syracuse	0.88	80	$75,000
New York	Utica	0.83	30
North Carolina	Asheville	3.28	170	$36,000
North Carolina	Burlington	4.47	70	$42,000
North Carolina	Charlotte	5.56	1,480	$59,000
North Carolina	Durham	3.06	240	$47,000
North Carolina	Fayetteville	4.12	140	$41,000
North Carolina	Greensboro	3.48	390	$47,000
North Carolina	Greenville	2.62	50	$28,000
North Carolina	Hickory	1.85	90	$35,000
North Carolina	Raleigh	5.44	830	$50,000
North Carolina	Rocky Mount	4.34	70
North Carolina	Wilmington	6.8	280	$33,000
North Carolina	Winston Salem	3.6	230	$33,000
Ohio	Cincinnati	0.82	260	$60,000
Ohio	Cleveland	0.49	160	$48,000
Ohio	Columbus	0.43	120	$80,000
Ohio	Dayton	0.59	70
Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	1.69	290
Oregon	Portland	1.92	610	$89,000
Oregon	Salem	2.33	100	$53,000
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	1	570
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	0.66	230
South Carolina	Charleston	2.78	240	$116,000
South Carolina	Columbia	2.79	290	$62,000
South Carolina	Greenville	4.48	410	$58,000
Tennessee	Chattanooga	0.76	50	$31,000
Tennessee	Nashville	0.95	220	$57,000
Texas	Houston	0.35	270	$87,000
Texas	San Antonio	1.05	260	$69,000
Utah	Salt Lake City	2.06	380	$69,000
Washington	Bellingham	1.83	40
Washington	Bremerton	1.37	30
Washington	Seattle	0.96	420	$99,000
Wisconsin	Green Bay	1.04	50	$51,000
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	1.03	270