We know what the stars make. How common is the experience?

RepVue is doing God's work here: getting salespeople to share what they actually make. Not estimates, but verified comp; go see Ryan Walsh and the team stat if you want real salary data not modeled estimates.

Jonathan Spier at GetRev shared RV's data with a good point: you do not need to sell AI at OpenAI or Anthropic to make serious money. Plenty of established software companies still offer enormous upside to great sellers. And he shared this list.

Paycom's top mid-market AEs average $1.88 million. Gong enterprise is at $1.74 million. Dataiku is at $1.69 million. Remarkable, enviable, vacation home-buying and college tuition-paying paydays top to bottom!

I wanted to add one more layer.

A top-earner number tells you what the best reps are making. But turnover, growth, avg tenure tell you a little more about the sales environment around them: how long sellers tend to stay, if the sales org is expanding, basically what kind of floor you're walking into.

So I took the same 25 companies and added our data for 63,662 sellers. The red ink shows departures over the last 12 months, sales-org growth versus two years ago, and the average tenure of the sellers there today.

I'm biased, but I think it makes the table more interesting.

At Paycom, for example, the top reps are making serious bank. At the same time, departures were high over the past year, the sales organization is smaller than it was two years ago, but the sellers average more than four years of tenure.

Tl;dr: a place with a meaningful veteran core, challenging yr 1, but survival means you get paid. For a prospective rep, this info matters.

Cisco and IBM look totally different. Top-earner comp is still around $1.4 million, while departures are much lower and average tenure is close to 10 yrs! High ceiling and the stability many will find appealing.

Then look at Chainguard and Glean, where headcount is growing quickly, tenure is short, and turnover is high. Classic young, rapidly expanding sales orgs: lots of hiring, lots of movement, not much history yet, but big bucks if you're an earner.

I don't think our data changes RepVue numbers one bit. It just gives sellers a bit more context on the environment of the sales org they're considering, and then they can decide if their temperament is a good match with the new team.

Method

Sales org is everyone in the workforce.ai panel with a Sales and Support function at the company today, all geographies. Departures are people who left that function between September 2025 and August 2026, shown per 100 sellers on the floor that year (average headcount), with the last three months grossed up for late reporting. Growth compares the sales org today with 24 months ago. Tenure is the average time at the company of the sellers still there. Everpure is Pentair's water brand and thin in the panel. RepVue's figures are US quota-carrying AEs and are theirs.