
Inside Sales Representative
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The Inside Sales Representative develops leads, manages small and medium customer accounts, prepares quotes, and supports territory forecasting and sales analytics. The role works with outside sales, marketing, operations, and management to qualify prospects, retain customers, track opportunities, and communicate customer needs. It also involves learning the company’s solutions and selling process and managing incoming calls.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,467 open Inside Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$56–98K/yr462 salary ranges
- US median$22–30/hr383 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 32 open Inside Sales jobs in Michigan and 1,467 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Michigan
- Experience
- Inside Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (730 postings).
- Education
- 143 of the 1,467 open Inside Sales jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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