In general, sales people do not make all that much more than a lot of other workers. Some make a lot, but that’s usually because they land some huge customer or have a shit ton of connections that leverage into sales. It’s also a very precarious job for a lot of people. You are given a sales target for a certain period. Don’t hit that target, and you’re gone. And it’s usually up to you to figure it all out, too.

I used to work with a lot of B2B sales people. The people who made money usually started as engineers or some other non-sales role, and sold to all the people they used to work with.

Tbh sales is a pretty miserable job.

Class analysis isn’t taxonomy. It’s not about sorting each and every profession into a bucket. Ultimately, it’s about understanding how the working class can form a political consciousness and then act. Whether or not the someone who sells cardboard to UPS is a “worker” or not isn’t really something class analysis is meant to answer, imo.