sales incentive vs incentive

sales incentive and incentive both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sales incentive	Yes	No	No	No
incentive	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, incentive is a hypernym of sales incentive; that is, incentive is a word with a broader meaning than sales incentive:

sales incentive: remuneration offered to a salesperson for exceeding some predetermined sales goal
incentive: an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

Other hypernyms of sales incentive include bonus.

sales incentive (noun)	incentive (noun)
remuneration offered to a salesperson for exceeding some predetermined sales goal	a positive motivational influence
	an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output