I feel like I've been lowballed, can someone explain the below breakdown please?

Base salary: 60k
Quarterly quota (per quarter): 107k
Quarterly bonus (per annum): 23k
130% Annual bonus = 11.5k
"23% commission on quota minus base": 37k (don't understand this)
"Proposed 23% commission on 150% quota minus base": 86.5k
Sales commission threshold per month: 22k
OTE: 122k
Cost/Sales: 28%

That base salary is lower than my previous base by a significant amount by 32.7%

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Ask to see how current reps are tracking towards their goals to see how attainable the OTE is.
I would ask:
- How many reps are hitting 100% of their quotas
- What’s the average quarterly commission and is there any seasonality to take into account
- What percentage of reps are at an OTE of 122K
- When was the last time bonus structures were changed and how often does this happen?

I’d ask to see actual dashboards tracking this information, obviously with names removed, to get a better understanding of how attainable the OTE is

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After joining for almost 2 months. The team is relatively small. We had 1 AE prior to joining and 4 CS.

It’s strange that CS also does sales but more so on upselling with existing clients.

Now we have 4 AEs, and 2 CS for MM. The single AE was averaging 200% quota a month

“commission on quota minus base” - sounds like a “draw”

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Definitely a draw

Why don’t you just ask your prospective employee to go through it with you?

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Seems low, but how much experience do you have? Sometimes it needs to be a stepping stone to get more experience or get into a certain area. After a year you can move and make more. I would take that deal if you are going from 85 to 123 OTE. There is more at risk, but pretty easy if you are good at sales.

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Salaries can also be dependent on your location. WFH has evened things out in the past few years, but I still have to compare my salary offers with the candidates' geo-location when going for approval to make the hire.

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Are you selling a product that has zero cost to produce or maintain. Does the company have zero overhead to maintain. Is this a 1099 gig or do they pay for healthcare benefits? Retirement benefits?

In my industry I get a base of 55k. I get a commission rate of 9% when I am at plan. It drops to 4% if I’m below plan.

I sell 6M a year. But my product i sell costs a lot to make. The corporation has huge overhead.

I’m ok with 9% - why because they spend a ton of money to make the stuff I sell, keep the lights on and provide adequate customer support

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Is it medical sales or something? I have never heard of someone getting an actual % of sales in tech outside of a reseller (and they don’t make the products).

I’m not sure I can help with whether or not it’s lowball, but an extremely complicated formula for commission is always concerning. I think depending on where you’re at and the industry $122k isn’t too bad, but if it’s tech sales executive it’s definitely low. That floor is much higher.

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i’m based out in Hong Kong

An account manager II at my company gets around $110k base and 30% commission (both can be negotiated). For reference a sales director can have a $170k base with 45% commission. The commission is tiered and you can make up to 3x commission. Very few sales directors reaches $400k but most reaches $300k. Your base sounds low and check the track record of reaching targets.

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So you’re target is to generate 428k in annual sales…

How much do you think you should earn on 400k in revenue generated?

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I don’t have a clue, it says 23% - is that under?

Any signing bonus?

Thank you…it was incredibly soul crushing

78k base, $130k OTE

If your total quota is $428K, and you are hitting $152K at quota, unsure how they show OTE as 122K. If your CAC is 28% just for sales, not including marketing, that seems in the ballpark. Oh, I see now, they are reducing your quarterly quota by your base compensation, I believe. This is way too complicated for what should be a simple formula. I would ask for a spreadsheet with example payouts. Your base is low.

They started me at $80k and said that was the highest they were going blaming it on location. I lived on the west coast and things cost where I lived at the time what they do in California because everyone was moving from there to where I live plus inflation. Gas was $5.85 per gallon. Didn’t make sense

I work for a publisher and my salary is 48k and I can earn 3 percent commission on all the deals I close along with bonus money on all targets hit. Is 48k base too low in the media industry?

Seems low to me

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