Jobs / Sales and marketing / 41-4011.07
Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors
Contact new or existing customers to determine their solar equipment needs, suggest systems or equipment, or estimate costs.
- US jobs
- 284,800 (SOC 41-4011 group, "Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products")
- Median wage
- $104,920 a year
- Job family
- Sales and marketing
Can agents do the work of solar sales representatives and assessors?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Sales and marketing:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from 2025. On Salesforce's CRMArena-Pro, which tests sales, service, and configure-price-quote requests inside a CRM, the best recorded agent succeeds on 58.3% of single-turn tasks and on fewer multi-turn tasks (Gemini 2.5 Pro, May 2025). No newer results are published.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes sales managers among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests running a campaign or a sales pipeline over weeks.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in sales and marketing, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Prepare proposals, quotes, contracts, or presentations for potential solar customers.
- Select solar energy products, systems, or services for customers based on electrical energy requirements, site conditions, price, or other factors.
- Provide customers with information, such as quotes, orders, sales, shipping, warranties, credit, funding options, incentives, or tax rebates.
- Gather information from prospective customers to identify their solar energy needs.
- Calculate potential solar resources or solar array production for a particular site considering issues such as climate, shading, and roof orientation.
- Generate solar energy customer leads to develop new accounts.
- Provide technical information about solar power, solar systems, equipment, and services to potential customers or dealers.
- Assess sites to determine suitability for solar equipment, using equipment such as tape measures, compasses, and computer software.
- Take quote requests or orders from dealers or customers.
- Prepare or review detailed design drawings, specifications, or lists related to solar installations.
- Create customized energy management packages to satisfy customer needs.
- Develop marketing or strategic plans for sales territories.
Other job titles for this occupation (28)
Energy Consultant · Sales Associate · Sales Consultant · Sales Representative (Sales Rep) · Salesman · Solar Consultant · Solar Energy Consultant · Solar Sales Consultant · Solar Sales Representative (Solar Sales Rep) · Solar Sales Specialist · Canvasser · Residential Solar Consultant · Residential Solar Sales Consultant · Retail Solar Advisor · Sales Specialist · Solar Advisor · Solar Business Developer · Solar Energy Sales Consultant · Solar Energy Specialist · Solar Outreach Representative (Solar Outreach Rep) · Solar Resource Assessor · Solar Sales Advisor · Solar Sales Ambassador · Solar Sales Assessor · Solar Sales Energy Advisor · Solar Sales Estimator · Solar Site Assessment Specialist · Solar Technology Sales Agent