Program Payoff

Specialized Sales, Merchandising and Marketing Operations programs in Texas

6 schools in Texas teach this, at certificate or associate level. The Department of Education publishes earnings for none of them, so the figures below are what the occupation itself pays.

What this work pays in Texas

First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers in Texas earn a median of $46,280 a year across 103,410 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in Texas
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$65,97095,670
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists$72,52063,350
Marketing Managers$147,88044,680
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$78,47041,640
Parts Salespersons$35,44025,500

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Dallas College Dallas Undergraduate certificate not published 33
Dallas College Dallas Associate's degree not published 13
El Paso Community College El Paso Undergraduate certificate not published 3
El Paso Community College El Paso Associate's degree not published 4
Houston City College Houston Undergraduate certificate not published 3
Houston City College Houston Associate's degree not published 23

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.