Junior

Hotel Sales Coordinator / Hotel Sales Associate

As a Hotel Sales Coordinator, you work alongside senior hotel sales staff while learning hotel group and corporate sales coordination — supporting senior reps, helping with proposal work, partnering with operations on group bookings. The work tends to be supervised and hospitality-sales-focused.

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Enterprisingleading, persuading
Conventionalorganizing, detail-oriented
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Job markets for Hotel Sales Coordinator / Hotel Sales Associates
Employment concentration · ~388 areas
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Hotel Sales Coordinator / Hotel Sales Associate

Most days mix supervised coordination work with structured learning — supporting senior sales reps on group and corporate accounts, helping with RFP and proposal work, partnering with operations on group bookings and event details, supporting customer follow-ups, and learning hotel sales systems (Delphi, Salesforce, specialty platforms). You're often working at branded hotels, independent properties, resort properties, or specialty hospitality organizations, and the property scale and brand standards shape early work.

What tends to be harder than people expect is the cross-functional coordination at junior level. Sales, operations, F&B, and revenue management all touch the role, and group event execution creates predictable workload spikes. CRM fluency, hospitality systems knowledge, and mentorship quality shape early career growth.

People who tend to thrive here are organized, comfortable with both customer and operational work, patient with group event details, and willing to learn from senior sales staff. If you want frontline selling, that lives in different roles. If you like building a foundation in hotel sales operations, the early years build a base toward senior coordinator, sales manager, or hospitality sales leadership.

IndependenceAbove avg
Working ConditionsAbove avg
AchievementAbove avg
SupportAbove avg
RecognitionModerate
RelationshipsModerate
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

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This level's estimated range
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1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Hotel Sales Coordinator / Hotel Sales Associates (SOC 11-2022.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$67K–$208K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
604K
U.S. Employment
+4.7%
10yr Growth
49K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$64K$61K$58K$55K$52K201920202021202220232024$52K$64K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Active ListeningNegotiationSpeakingCritical ThinkingManagement of Personnel ResourcesJudgment and Decision MakingPersuasionSocial PerceptivenessMonitoringReading Comprehension
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