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Lower Salaries Than Other Salesmen. While commission-based food salesmen earned $52,000 in 2013, all wholesale and manufacturing sales representatives earned average annual salaries of $64,300 as of May 2012, according to the BLS. The top 10 percent made more than $112,650 annually.
The median annual wage for food service managers was $48,690 in May 2015. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $28,780, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $83,010. Most food service managers work full time. Managers at some restaurants, such as fine-dining and fast-food restaurants, often work long shifts, and some of these managers work more than 40 hours per week.