What Sales and Customer Support Jobs Pay Across Europe: NewLuxJob's Own Salary Data

If you are applying for a sales or customer support role in Europe, one of the hardest things to find is a straight answer on pay. Job ads often leave the salary field blank. The figures below come from NewLuxJob's own job ads, pulled directly from the postings employers have published on the platform.

Sales salaries by country

Sales pay varies widely depending on where the job is based. Based on NewLuxJob's job ads:

• France: median salary of 27,000 EUR, with the middle half of postings ranging from 22,404 to 37,200 EUR, based on 4,784 job postings.
• Germany: median of 43,200 EUR, middle half from 33,600 to 64,500 EUR, based on 363 postings.
• Netherlands: median of 46,200 EUR, middle half from 36,000 to 63,693 EUR, based on 178 postings.
• Spain: median of 20,000 EUR, middle half from 17,044 to 27,800 EUR, based on 87 postings.
• Czechia: median of 13,159 EUR, middle half from 11,123 to 16,572 EUR, based on 1,136 postings.
• Austria: median of 42,000 EUR, middle half from 33,143 to 57,414 EUR, based on 82 postings.
• Italy: median of 42,000 EUR, middle half from 30,000 to 52,500 EUR, based on 73 postings.
• Belgium: median of 36,600 EUR, middle half from 28,800 to 44,936 EUR, based on 68 postings.

France and Czechia have the largest number of sales postings behind these figures, at 4,784 and 1,136 respectively, which means those two medians are drawn from a much bigger sample than the others.

Customer support salaries by country

NewLuxJob's job ads also cover customer support roles, though for fewer countries than sales:

• France: median of 30,000 EUR, middle half from 25,500 to 40,000 EUR, based on 999 postings.
• Germany: median of 42,500 EUR, middle half from 32,810 to 48,000 EUR, based on 124 postings.
• Netherlands: median of 37,200 EUR, middle half from 32,250 to 42,892 EUR, based on 176 postings.
• Czechia: median of 18,621 EUR, middle half from 16,386 to 27,063 EUR, based on 86 postings.

As with sales, France has by far the largest sample of customer support postings, at 999, so its median carries more weight than the figures from Austria or Italy would if customer support data existed for those countries in this set.

Comparing the two roles where both are covered

Looking only at the four countries where NewLuxJob has both sales and customer support figures:

In France, the customer support median of 30,000 EUR sits above the sales median of 27,000 EUR. In Germany, customer support comes in at 42,500 EUR against a sales median of 43,200 EUR. In the Netherlands, customer support is 37,200 EUR versus a sales median of 46,200 EUR. In Czechia, customer support is 18,621 EUR against a sales median of 13,159 EUR.

What this means if you are job hunting

These ranges are useful as a reference point, not a guarantee. The middle half figures show that even within one country and one role, pay spreads out considerably. In France's sales postings, for example, the middle half runs from 22,404 to 37,200 EUR, which is a wide band for the same job title. The same pattern shows up in Czechia's customer support postings, where the middle half runs from 16,386 to 27,063 EUR.

If you are comparing offers, it helps to ask where a quoted number falls in that spread, rather than only looking at the median. A salary near the bottom of the middle half, such as 11,123 EUR in Czech sales roles, reflects a very different offer than one near the top, such as 16,572 EUR for the same role in the same country.

A note on sample size

Not every country has the same volume of job ads behind its numbers. Austria's sales median of 42,000 EUR comes from 82 postings, and Italy's matching median of 42,000 EUR comes from just 73. Figures built on larger samples, like France's 4,784 sales postings or Czechia's 1,136, are likely to be steadier over time than those built on a few dozen ads. Keep that in mind when weighing these numbers against a specific offer.