The Datum Report

Occupation 7121 · Sales and customer service occupations

Collector salespersons and credit agents

Collector salespersons and credit agents visit private households to obtain orders and collect payments for goods and services.

How people enter it

No academic qualifications are required. Training is provided on-the-job and may be supplemented by specialist short courses provided by employers.

What the work involves

• calls on household, explains purpose of call and displays or describes goods/services on offer
• emphasises main selling point of goods/services to stimulate customer interest
• quotes prices and terms, collects any payments and completes hire purchase or credit arrangements
• distributes advertising literature and sample goods
• makes follow-up calls to obtain further orders

Also called

Agent (insurance) · Canvasser · Distributor (door-to-door sales) · Insurance agent

What it pays

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Debt, rent and other cash collectors · Market and street traders and assistants · Roundspersons and van salespersons · Sales related occupations n.e.c. · Visual merchandisers and related occupations