Sales and retail assistants

Average National Salaries (2020)

What does this career do?

Sales and retail assistants demonstrate and sell a variety of goods and services in shops, stores, showrooms and similar establishments.

Typical tasks

• discusses customer requirements, including type and price range of goods/services desired
• advises customer on selection, purchase, use and care of merchandise and quotes prices, discounts and delivery times
• advises customer making major purchase on credit terms and arranges finance as appropriate
• receives full or partial payment, checks validity of form of payment, writes or prints bill, receipt or docket and packages merchandise for customer
• arranges and replenishes goods on display stands, undertakes stock checks and assists with the receipt of deliveries from suppliers into the stock room
• handles returns and deals with customer complaints.

Current entry requirements

No minimum academic qualifications are required although some employers may require GCSEs/S grades. Training is typically provided on-the-job. Apprenticeships and NVQs/SVQs in Retail Operations are available at various levels.

Percentage in work

• Employed

• Unemployed

Due to insufficient sample sizes, some data was excised.

Predicted employment status in 2022

• Full-time

• Part-time

• Self Employed

Predicted employment levels in the East Midlands

Career related courses available at West Notts

There are no current courses offered by West Notts that are related to this career.

About the statistics

Data is powered by LMI for All and is sourced from labour market statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Institute for Employment Research, the Department for Works and Pensions, and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.