Sales Salaries in Los Angeles 2026
Sales compensation in Los Angeles across 3 roles, anchored to 2026 hiring data and adjusted for local cost of living.
Los Angeles is one of the largest US sales hiring markets in 2026. This page covers compensation across the 3 sales roles we benchmark in the Los Angeles metro, the top employers actively hiring sellers right now, the cost-of-living context that determines what a posted salary buys, and the industries driving the bulk of Los Angeles sales hiring demand.
Pay benchmarks by role
| Role | Base Median | OTE Median | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDR / BDR | $61K | $87K | $50K - $74K |
| Account Executive | $94K | $188K | $77K - $114K |
| Enterprise Account Executive | $112K | $186K | $91K - $136K |
Median base salaries in Los Angeles average $89K across the 3 roles shown above. Cost-of-living adjustment puts the Los Angeles purchasing power equivalent at approximately $58K in national-equivalent dollars.
Top sales employers in Los Angeles
- Snap. Maintains active sales hiring across SDR, AE, and management roles in Los Angeles.
- ServiceTitan. Maintains active sales hiring across SDR, AE, and management roles in Los Angeles.
- Procore. Maintains active sales hiring across SDR, AE, and management roles in Los Angeles.
- Disney. Maintains active sales hiring across SDR, AE, and management roles in Los Angeles.
- Hulu. Maintains active sales hiring across SDR, AE, and management roles in Los Angeles.
Dominant industries for sales hiring
Vertical SaaS (construction, field service, real estate), media and entertainment technology, gaming, consumer technology, and AdTech.
ServiceTitan and Procore lead the vertical SaaS hiring base, with both companies known for strong AE compensation programs and reliable quota-attainment cultures. Snap and the entertainment-tech cluster (Disney, Hulu, Riot) anchor a separate hiring tier for sellers selling into media and consumer-technology buyers.
Cost-of-living context
Los Angeles's cost-of-living index of 152 reflects high housing costs concentrated in Westside and beach-adjacent neighborhoods. East and South Bay submarkets carry materially lower housing costs, which most sellers exploit to improve real-income outcomes.
Remote and hybrid work dynamics
LA tech employers are more remote-tolerant than coastal-tier averages, with several local SaaS vendors operating fully-distributed sales teams from LA headquarters. The result is a healthy supply of remote AE roles posted from LA-based employers.
About Los Angeles sales compensation
Los Angeles sales compensation reflects a mix of media, entertainment, vertical SaaS, and consumer technology. Compensation runs above the US median but the cost of living premium narrows real-income gains.
Methodology
City-level salary medians are derived from the 2026 Seller Report sales hiring dataset, anchoring the national role median to a metro multiplier capped between 0.85x and 1.55x to avoid extreme outliers. Cost-of-living indexes are referenced from BEA Regional Price Parities and the C2ER Cost of Living Index. Top-employer lists cross-reference active job postings in the dataset. See the full salary data methodology for the complete framework.