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Wow, that is a lot of money to just be waiting on for that long. Do you mean if you get promoted you no longer get that commission? I would think because you earned it before you were promoted that it would still be paid out to you.
They're government research projects that usually last 2 years and have milestone-based payments. Once those milestone payments are received, I get my commission. I've built out a calendar of expected payments on all of my projects over the next 2 years and it totals to ~$90k. I guess you could argue that I haven't fully "earned" all of that yet since it is also contingent on the execution of the work to the client's satisfaction? But yes, either way, it's a significant amount of money that I don't want to lose. And it's likely that my new role will have a differently structured incentive-comp plan. I basically want to say "Make my new base salary = my old base salary + this commission you're already going to pay me". But my boss is adverse to high base salaries. He believes strongly in incentivizing performance.
90k seems low for a PM
As commission for a project manager? This is on top of my base salary. And yeah it probably is low.. I work for a less-than-ideally-funded startup... I do have quite a few stock options though.