average sales associate pay clothing retail
Stores that specialize in building materials paid retail sales associates an average wage of $13.45 per hour. Clothing stores, which employed nearly 70 percent of all retail sales associates, paid an average hourly wage of $10.35. Shoe stores paid sales associates an average of $10.32 an hour. Among the 50 states and District of Columbia, retail sales associates in D.C. earned the highest hourly wage at an average of $13.79.