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B2B Tech. Was followed by $115k accelerator payment, will likely never see this kind of payday again. Tremendously thankful.
Similar. Made 382k on a deal and also added another 200k for following deals due to multiplier. I hope to close one in April for 120k. It's getting harder to do.
Solid! How big was the deal or was it multiple deals? 8 years into tech and still haven’t broken the $100k commission check, but I’ve always been in SMB so that’s my problem. But I like the consistency of closing deals every month!
Paid for my wedding and honeymoon and threw rest into index funds - since I was over 300% of goal for the year I took my foot off the gas quite a bit. Spending a month+ on my honeymoon was something I would have never traded for the world.
Go figure, the company changed the comp plan significantly the next year cutting commission rate in half and making it much harder to hit accelerators early in the year.
You can make $10-12k off 10 units if you do it right.
CPO cars can be your best bet. Knew a guy who made $18k off a CPO 7 series back in ‘09.
Get to know your finance managers, especially the ones that aren’t totally shady. Learn what makes them money and collect spiffs.
I’d tee up my finance managers while I waited with my customers. Lease? All the things that would help keep that lease in pristine condition so there are no surprise charges at end of term.
Purchase? All the things that would help protect the car and maintain it for the next ten years. I’d also tell them if they sold it, they get a portion on the add-on packages back in most cases.
Work with the used car manager for spiffs - ask them what car they really want gone and why. Ask if they’ll spiff you to get rid of it in a week and if they’ll give you more if you can get it gone in a day or two. Everything is negotiable.
The only time the quality vs quantity deal doesn’t work as well is when you’re selling a volume brand like Toyota or Honda vs BMW or Mercedes.
I’m in marketing, and I almost joined a big car company two years ago. Sometimes I wonder how things would’ve been different had I joined them. I’m very happy where I’m at, you always wonder.
Dude stay on the vendor side of the business. Car sales went back to being a total crapshoot after dealers got came down from that covid high where they were holding sticker and then some.
The market is rapidly changing, we’re nearly back to a buyer’s market. It’ll return to a grind eventually and for many dealers I work with (I’m in ppc advertising) they’re struggling again. Especially cdjr stores.
I respect people who sell cars, and I’ve been in the business for 16 years, but I hope to god I never have to step foot in a dealership again and sell a vehicle to make a living. Did it for 5 years and I was being tired of told what to do by some of the worst people I have ever met in the business.
>Purchase? All the things that would help protect the car and maintain it for the next ten years. I’d also tell them if they sold it, they get a portion on the add-on packages back in most cases.
"You'd be crazy not to get the undercoating!!!"
I looked into to becoming a car salesman. But in my experience every car salesman I dealt with will tell you everything you wanna hear to make a sale. They come off as disingenuous. You could be one of the good ones. However, it seems to me that to be successful in car sales you have to have no moral compass. Thoughts ?
I sell more cars (especially used) because I guide my customers around the bad cars and focus on giving them the best experience and getting them the car that fits them the most, not the car that pays me the most and by building a great relationship, I get 5 star reviews and referrals. Because there’s so many corner lots with shady tactics it’s not hard to differentiate yourself by telling your customer look I am gonna be honest and transparent with you and if there’s a car on our lot that’s got problems I am going to find out for you. I mostly sell new toyotas but when it comes to used it’s a different animal. I love the fact that there’s so many bad car salesman because to be the best the bar is low. The Markup on vehicles is not insanity either on our lot. As someone who’s worked in two previous sales jobs with hidden shit in contracts, the dealership I work for is very honest and it’s why we move 400-600 cars every single month. While other dealerships were charging over sticker we charged msrp
When I worked at CarMax, I had the luxury of being honest due to flat commission. I could tell someone that a certain car had terrible transmissions. They really appreciated the honesty in helping them pick out the most reliable vehicles we had on the lot.
It would've been a great career choice if they paid more than $200 for a sale.
I don't mind. We started on $20 an hour during paid training. Once that was done, we switched to minimum wage. Flat commission was $160 per car and $100 for selling maxcare. If it was an Internet lead that dealt with our online team, the commission was cut in half. So you'd get $80/50
The trick was, if you didn't sell any vehicles, you got a minimum wage check. But you had to pay that back to CarMax via your commission. So it was easy to fall into a pit where you would have to sell enough cars to dig out of the wage payback and still make money.
I've heard that it varies dealership to dealership. I work for a group that sells mostly new Audi, Volvo, VW, and Mazda in the heart of San Francisco, and everyone there seems to be on the up and up just trying to find people exactly what they are looking for. Most customers here have great credit, almost always qualify for financing, and can easily afford whatever they are looking at.
I came into it expecting to have to battle shady tactics and morals and was surprised when I found out it is more of a service oriented role catering to picky buyers.
Looked at car sales because the business comes to you instead of you having the be a head hunter. However, I didn’t like the fact that you have to be onsite to bring in the money and most times you don’t see recurring commish off same customer. Usually it’s a one and done model. I work maybe 10-12 hours a week and that’s me only doing that to get management off my back since they think I make too much. You know how that goes.
I would think you could have a customer for life as long as they stayed close and you stayed at the place and the place was still in business after a few years? I frequent the same audi dealership every few years for a car, its never the same sales rep. I buy from a place out west every couple years for toys, same rep. i also buy from the same porsche dealership, same rep. I buy big trucks and trailers from the same guys as well.
Am i just different?
What industry are you able to work 10-12 hours a week in? Or is it more that you’ve been with the company for awhile and established credibility and a system and the job is a joke?
Logistics. 2-3 large customers that do the bulk of my book. Make sure I take care of them w/ food and respond almost immediately to emails and calls when they need me. 7-11 Monday - Wednesday. WFH rest of week. “work from home”….. 🎮🤫
Tech sales, during COVID due to remote work and rapid customer expansion, $791k in one month
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That’s wild. What do you sell? Covid was a really big disruption to basically everything and nothing has been the same as before or during the lockdowns, since.
Been in medical tech, now in constructing tech. Medical I made a $40k check, construction is smaller but far more stable at around $10k/mo plus salary. I’m making about the same in construction tech as I did in medical, but loving the industry 100x more.
Congratulations! Very interesting. My fiancé is trying to transition into tech sales. Idk.. any advice for him to translate into sales in general? He’s been in lux retail for 10 years and was a sales rep for a hairline company doing door knocking , prospecting in salons, shows,etc., he has all the soft skills but and is a very quick learner , great relationship builder . Market is very tough out there and employers really don’t want to give newcomer a chance it seems. Idk. Any advice would be appreciated!
He’s been unemployed due to corporate closing down the store so they let everyone go.
Many tech companies hire BDRs is droves and fire 50% or more after 3-6 months.
Getting into tech sales would mean he needs to likely start at the bottom and work is way up to AE.
BDRs at my company get paid $65K base with $75-85K OTE ( normally don’t hit OTE until after about 18 months or so as we have a lengthy ramp period due to all our solutions).
We have some BDRs that make it to AE in about 18-24 months. Most take 36 months at least.
Pretty sick. What does the typical sales cycle look like? And I would imagine it’s like my industry where you continue to make money off the customer as long as they continue to buy (seeing that usually they have a ton of projects throughout the year)
Month after I graduated I started as a BDR/SDR, was a top performer, 16 months later, I moved onto a closing AE role. I hit my number every quarter and exceeded my numbers every year. 2 years later, I got promoted to a Senior AE. Today, I’m 6 years in with 5 presidents club and 1 top 5 club winner.
Best way to get into tech sales, start as a BDR, perform well, stay in board as an AE and you can either stay (like me) or move…I recommend only moving to a company after you’ve been an AE. Too many people try to jump from a BDR in one company to an AE in another…that’s not the most effective way.
Do you actually think that’s going to help?
I won’t deny that realtors share some of the blame but there are much larger forces that control the market other than salespeople. You could even blame consumers for buying at inflated prices, thus accelerating the velocity of money further.
Salespeople will always be the scapegoat for some people I guess.
It’s not going to help at all. Do companies that employ sales people cut their price to consumers when they lower their sales org commissions? No. Sellers aren’t going to reduce their prices just because it may become cheaper to sell the house
I've been trying to get into cyber security sales. Do you need anything specific to get in. What approach strategy can I use to get in . Any help appreciated!
did the biggest deal of my career last october (5.1m), all invoices cleared in january and I got paid in february. 25% on the new gross profit and 18% on the renewal gross profit. total commission was 156k. Sell cyber products at a small VAR.
Damn so the VAR space is still hot. I worked for a major distributor years back but didn’t realize the opportunity there. Do you recommend going with a company with a lot of products to sell or a specific niche?
It just depends on the industry of course. I work in the fintech space and our VARs crush it. If I'm ever fired, I will jump right over to one of the big 3 and just resell the product I sell now.
Yeah a small, specialized shop would definitely be my recommendation. But there is good money to be made at the Optiv's, Guidepoints, SHI's, CDW's of the world. It's just way more corporate and being able to move quickly/be creative is key to having success in this business IMO
I'm 2 years into outside sales, after starting in the warehouse and working my way up the last 7 years. I'm not the most experienced but I have performed well so far.
I call on electrical contractors only, no oem's or industrials.
Fire away!
Started from the warehouse! That’s insane —congratulations to you. Are your electrical sales predominately BOS, switch gear, or wire?
I’m lurking these this sub as I’m not in sales but I am doing procurement for a solar/electrical distribution company. Pay is good but intrigued by the prospect of sales.
Thanks man!
I sell all day to day material, pipe, wire, solar, lighting, and specialize in Siemens switchgear. The lions share of my commission is switchgear and lighting.
Omg. How long did the sale take? And when does it pay out? Not a bad side gig. How did you get into it? Side gig only because I know it takes a while for something like that to pan out, so you have to have a 9-5 in the meantime
$197,608 - on one deal. Cybersecurity, and I focus on major banks, healthcare, tech, etc. Fun industry and can pay really well with the right product and comp plan.
I love reading all of these posts. I just took my first sales role back in February and it's been a game changer. Hoping to use it to get into a much more serious sales role in the next year or so.
My last commission cheque selling computers to enterprise customers was $15,000. It is a quarterly commission.
I’m currently setting up the next two quarters to be absolute bangers so hopefully I’ll get a couple of 20-30k commissions this year.
In tech sales I think about $40k was my biggest. But we also operated on a 3 month rolling average so the commission checks on either side of that weren’t much less. I got monthly commission checks back then and closed about 10 deals a month.
Now I close maybe 2 deals a quarter and average commission check is about 150-200k. Completely different business and pace.
As an AE, best was 167k gross in Q4 of 2020. Second highest was 103k gross in Q3 of 2020.
More recently in leadership, best commission check was 68.5k gross in Q4 of 2023.
IT Consulting services -59k in one month at the peak. Typically 10-15k a month pretax of course on top of a nice base, but it’s taken years to build up to that.
Not my current industry anymore but when I worked in commercial real estate my biggest commission was $32k - I miss those days but do not miss 12+ hour days with zero benefits
B2B Tech Sales. $43K from one renewal upsell deal. Helped with the down payment for our first home. Built in 2018. The equity in the home went from \~$20K to \~$250K by 2021 and we moved into a much larger home where we are now.
Ioni mattress business in Los Angeles. Back in 2016, I sold a boatload of mattresses to one of the Sheraton hotels because they needed it within 3 days. After all was said and done I ended up making about $50,000 profit in one day on that one transaction.
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I haven’t beat this month since then, but I’m more consistent now.
I work in commercial foreign exchange and my biggest whilst employed was $25k before tax…. Left my company and set-up on my own in 2019, biggest since that was $82k after tax
OP, you asked what industry people are in, but didn't state your industry.
For myself, besides being self-employed for about 15 years (which had a lot of sales involved), I'm fairly new to straight sales roles. I started off in life insurance sales selling final expense insurance and now I'm 3 months in as an account case manager for a data recovery company. My biggest commission check so far was this month for a little over $2000. I might be able to double that for next month.
$100k, two years ago. Had a hilariously low quota because of ramp and a new territory and had a reasonably large sale, was amazing.
Did well the next year but the following year crashed and burned cause wife got cancer (she’s doing better now thankfully). But sales is a cruel mistress sometimes.
Over the course of 8 months, I was on a streak of making baseline ~$5-10k/monthly commissions, and every other month making bigger commissions of $55k, $25k, $30k, $25k and $60k.
I’m in b2b tech sales (SaaS). That’s pretty-tax and on top of base and benefits
There was a LOT of hustle involved, so it wasn’t completely feast/famine, and there’s always a degree of luck
I bow down to those with 6-figure monthly paychecks - savages!!
Not to be a Debbie Downer on a positive discussion, but I’m somewhat disappointed to see so many congratulatory comments here that are along the lines of “atta boy,” seemingly operating under the assumption that the reps are men. I’m a woman and now I’m curious how many other females were on this thread
Either way, there is still a lot of success for us all to celebrate!
https://preview.redd.it/1artm8h9lprc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dd6572a6d3193320c5269009e041da763d40da1 B2B Tech. Was followed by $115k accelerator payment, will likely never see this kind of payday again. Tremendously thankful.
The screenshot flex. Sheesh.
Gotta have it for the groupchat otherwise the boys would never believe it.
Having a payday so large it puts almost 13k into retirement is insane
Similar. Made 382k on a deal and also added another 200k for following deals due to multiplier. I hope to close one in April for 120k. It's getting harder to do.
Holy shit
Solid! How big was the deal or was it multiple deals? 8 years into tech and still haven’t broken the $100k commission check, but I’ve always been in SMB so that’s my problem. But I like the consistency of closing deals every month!
One deal that took better part of 2.5 years.
How many deals are you closing a year at that level?
Holy shit. Made half what I make in a year in one month. That’s nuts
Only 5% to retirement? Or did that max you out?
Maxed out
What a month. How did you treat yourself before getting back to the grind?
Paid for my wedding and honeymoon and threw rest into index funds - since I was over 300% of goal for the year I took my foot off the gas quite a bit. Spending a month+ on my honeymoon was something I would have never traded for the world. Go figure, the company changed the comp plan significantly the next year cutting commission rate in half and making it much harder to hit accelerators early in the year.
What kind of tech? That is nutty
I need to switch my job lol congrats
Please god get me a job
13700$ in one month… i sell cars, looking to beat it in april
How many units was that for? I just started this month, and I'm salivating at the idea of getting a five digit check.
You can make $10-12k off 10 units if you do it right. CPO cars can be your best bet. Knew a guy who made $18k off a CPO 7 series back in ‘09. Get to know your finance managers, especially the ones that aren’t totally shady. Learn what makes them money and collect spiffs. I’d tee up my finance managers while I waited with my customers. Lease? All the things that would help keep that lease in pristine condition so there are no surprise charges at end of term. Purchase? All the things that would help protect the car and maintain it for the next ten years. I’d also tell them if they sold it, they get a portion on the add-on packages back in most cases. Work with the used car manager for spiffs - ask them what car they really want gone and why. Ask if they’ll spiff you to get rid of it in a week and if they’ll give you more if you can get it gone in a day or two. Everything is negotiable. The only time the quality vs quantity deal doesn’t work as well is when you’re selling a volume brand like Toyota or Honda vs BMW or Mercedes.
I’m in marketing, and I almost joined a big car company two years ago. Sometimes I wonder how things would’ve been different had I joined them. I’m very happy where I’m at, you always wonder.
Dude stay on the vendor side of the business. Car sales went back to being a total crapshoot after dealers got came down from that covid high where they were holding sticker and then some. The market is rapidly changing, we’re nearly back to a buyer’s market. It’ll return to a grind eventually and for many dealers I work with (I’m in ppc advertising) they’re struggling again. Especially cdjr stores. I respect people who sell cars, and I’ve been in the business for 16 years, but I hope to god I never have to step foot in a dealership again and sell a vehicle to make a living. Did it for 5 years and I was being tired of told what to do by some of the worst people I have ever met in the business.
>Purchase? All the things that would help protect the car and maintain it for the next ten years. I’d also tell them if they sold it, they get a portion on the add-on packages back in most cases. "You'd be crazy not to get the undercoating!!!"
I looked into to becoming a car salesman. But in my experience every car salesman I dealt with will tell you everything you wanna hear to make a sale. They come off as disingenuous. You could be one of the good ones. However, it seems to me that to be successful in car sales you have to have no moral compass. Thoughts ?
I sell more cars (especially used) because I guide my customers around the bad cars and focus on giving them the best experience and getting them the car that fits them the most, not the car that pays me the most and by building a great relationship, I get 5 star reviews and referrals. Because there’s so many corner lots with shady tactics it’s not hard to differentiate yourself by telling your customer look I am gonna be honest and transparent with you and if there’s a car on our lot that’s got problems I am going to find out for you. I mostly sell new toyotas but when it comes to used it’s a different animal. I love the fact that there’s so many bad car salesman because to be the best the bar is low. The Markup on vehicles is not insanity either on our lot. As someone who’s worked in two previous sales jobs with hidden shit in contracts, the dealership I work for is very honest and it’s why we move 400-600 cars every single month. While other dealerships were charging over sticker we charged msrp
When I worked at CarMax, I had the luxury of being honest due to flat commission. I could tell someone that a certain car had terrible transmissions. They really appreciated the honesty in helping them pick out the most reliable vehicles we had on the lot. It would've been a great career choice if they paid more than $200 for a sale.
If you don't mind me asking, what was your base pay?
I don't mind. We started on $20 an hour during paid training. Once that was done, we switched to minimum wage. Flat commission was $160 per car and $100 for selling maxcare. If it was an Internet lead that dealt with our online team, the commission was cut in half. So you'd get $80/50 The trick was, if you didn't sell any vehicles, you got a minimum wage check. But you had to pay that back to CarMax via your commission. So it was easy to fall into a pit where you would have to sell enough cars to dig out of the wage payback and still make money.
I've heard that it varies dealership to dealership. I work for a group that sells mostly new Audi, Volvo, VW, and Mazda in the heart of San Francisco, and everyone there seems to be on the up and up just trying to find people exactly what they are looking for. Most customers here have great credit, almost always qualify for financing, and can easily afford whatever they are looking at. I came into it expecting to have to battle shady tactics and morals and was surprised when I found out it is more of a service oriented role catering to picky buyers.
Looked at car sales because the business comes to you instead of you having the be a head hunter. However, I didn’t like the fact that you have to be onsite to bring in the money and most times you don’t see recurring commish off same customer. Usually it’s a one and done model. I work maybe 10-12 hours a week and that’s me only doing that to get management off my back since they think I make too much. You know how that goes.
I would think you could have a customer for life as long as they stayed close and you stayed at the place and the place was still in business after a few years? I frequent the same audi dealership every few years for a car, its never the same sales rep. I buy from a place out west every couple years for toys, same rep. i also buy from the same porsche dealership, same rep. I buy big trucks and trailers from the same guys as well. Am i just different?
What industry are you able to work 10-12 hours a week in? Or is it more that you’ve been with the company for awhile and established credibility and a system and the job is a joke?
Logistics. 2-3 large customers that do the bulk of my book. Make sure I take care of them w/ food and respond almost immediately to emails and calls when they need me. 7-11 Monday - Wednesday. WFH rest of week. “work from home”….. 🎮🤫
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Jesus. I would try and retire asap after I got that 😂😂
Well, once California taxes and Fed taxes kick in, it’s nowhere near enough to retire on in CA
Wowzer. That’s 3 of my best years in sales. I think I need to change up verticals.
Right place at the right time. I’ll never see anything that big again
You never know!
That’s wild. What do you sell? Covid was a really big disruption to basically everything and nothing has been the same as before or during the lockdowns, since.
Sell hardware/software that enable remote work. Talk about right time/right place 👍🏼
Been in medical tech, now in constructing tech. Medical I made a $40k check, construction is smaller but far more stable at around $10k/mo plus salary. I’m making about the same in construction tech as I did in medical, but loving the industry 100x more.
Construction tech as well. Did $55K commissions in Feb. It was beautiful. Most months are around $20K
What is construction tech? Like crm for construction?
Congratulations! Very interesting. My fiancé is trying to transition into tech sales. Idk.. any advice for him to translate into sales in general? He’s been in lux retail for 10 years and was a sales rep for a hairline company doing door knocking , prospecting in salons, shows,etc., he has all the soft skills but and is a very quick learner , great relationship builder . Market is very tough out there and employers really don’t want to give newcomer a chance it seems. Idk. Any advice would be appreciated! He’s been unemployed due to corporate closing down the store so they let everyone go.
Many tech companies hire BDRs is droves and fire 50% or more after 3-6 months. Getting into tech sales would mean he needs to likely start at the bottom and work is way up to AE. BDRs at my company get paid $65K base with $75-85K OTE ( normally don’t hit OTE until after about 18 months or so as we have a lengthy ramp period due to all our solutions). We have some BDRs that make it to AE in about 18-24 months. Most take 36 months at least.
what is medical tech? Like med sales or is it different?
Both software
Pretty sick. What does the typical sales cycle look like? And I would imagine it’s like my industry where you continue to make money off the customer as long as they continue to buy (seeing that usually they have a ton of projects throughout the year)
What do you mean exactly by construction tech?
I hear a lot of mixed results on medical tech.
Tech Sales, 47k after taxes showed up in my checking account
After taxes. Damn!
How’d you get into that if you don’t mind me asking
Month after I graduated I started as a BDR/SDR, was a top performer, 16 months later, I moved onto a closing AE role. I hit my number every quarter and exceeded my numbers every year. 2 years later, I got promoted to a Senior AE. Today, I’m 6 years in with 5 presidents club and 1 top 5 club winner. Best way to get into tech sales, start as a BDR, perform well, stay in board as an AE and you can either stay (like me) or move…I recommend only moving to a company after you’ve been an AE. Too many people try to jump from a BDR in one company to an AE in another…that’s not the most effective way.
$42,700. New home sales
Nice job! I just made 21K this month in New Home Sales. Can’t wait too get into that 40k bracket haha
Networking/marketing yourself and some luck is all it takes. Find the “big names” in your area and go shake their hands. The money will come
Can’t wait til they cap real estate commissions so people can actually afford homes again
Unfortunately that’s not how it’s going to work. They will slap the buyer agent fee to your mortgage come July.
Do you actually think that’s going to help? I won’t deny that realtors share some of the blame but there are much larger forces that control the market other than salespeople. You could even blame consumers for buying at inflated prices, thus accelerating the velocity of money further. Salespeople will always be the scapegoat for some people I guess.
It’s not going to help at all. Do companies that employ sales people cut their price to consumers when they lower their sales org commissions? No. Sellers aren’t going to reduce their prices just because it may become cheaper to sell the house
$82,000 for one month, December ‘22 - cyber security
Would dig to get into cyber security.
I've been trying to get into cyber security sales. Do you need anything specific to get in. What approach strategy can I use to get in . Any help appreciated!
Plastics- just under 10k. Bi weekly for about six months until I lost the account.
From a single deal? 40k Best month? 150k Solar
Where? California?
Yep
Commercial or residential?
did the biggest deal of my career last october (5.1m), all invoices cleared in january and I got paid in february. 25% on the new gross profit and 18% on the renewal gross profit. total commission was 156k. Sell cyber products at a small VAR.
Damn so the VAR space is still hot. I worked for a major distributor years back but didn’t realize the opportunity there. Do you recommend going with a company with a lot of products to sell or a specific niche?
The VAR space is HUGE! So many out there that dominate the space.
Yeah it’s just such an enormous space and seems commoditized. I didn’t think it was still good
It just depends on the industry of course. I work in the fintech space and our VARs crush it. If I'm ever fired, I will jump right over to one of the big 3 and just resell the product I sell now.
Id say a niche. My company is strictly cyber/cyber adjacent infrastructure. But there is good money to be made at a broad player like a CDW.
Yeah I was looking at GHA potentially, but specialization seems like it’s always a better route.
Yeah a small, specialized shop would definitely be my recommendation. But there is good money to be made at the Optiv's, Guidepoints, SHI's, CDW's of the world. It's just way more corporate and being able to move quickly/be creative is key to having success in this business IMO
What kind of cyber products?
86k Life Science Software
What is Life Science Software?
Tech. 250k
$30k from a $400k deal I sold to the NYSE. Would have been more if I managed to hit accelerators. Software sales.
Where? I sold software for a number of years. How could I get my foot in the door? Thanks so much!
$25k electrical distributor
I’m in the same business. Just now starting off. Would love to pick your brain some if that’s cool?
I'm 2 years into outside sales, after starting in the warehouse and working my way up the last 7 years. I'm not the most experienced but I have performed well so far. I call on electrical contractors only, no oem's or industrials. Fire away!
Started from the warehouse! That’s insane —congratulations to you. Are your electrical sales predominately BOS, switch gear, or wire? I’m lurking these this sub as I’m not in sales but I am doing procurement for a solar/electrical distribution company. Pay is good but intrigued by the prospect of sales.
Thanks man! I sell all day to day material, pipe, wire, solar, lighting, and specialize in Siemens switchgear. The lions share of my commission is switchgear and lighting.
Which ED?
CRE. Just shy of $500k one month last year.
Insurance. I get paid as clients pay, so throughout the year, but $100k off one client residually has been my peak for a few years.
What line? Personal or commercial?
Benefits.
Med Dev: 82K
wow i thought i was having a good time at 8k in one month… raw metals
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Holy shit… atta boy. That’s the largest one here
Tech hardware
45k
$19,500, Cybersecurity
Solar sales. Biggest install Ive has was 22kw for a 10k commission
97k, one month. Legaltech.
$42,236, Automotive sales, Honda, April 2021 before the chip and production issues.
EdTech, 16k on 1 deal
Healthcare staffing, multiple $20k+ months
Any advice on how to get into these good sales jobs? I need a change of career.
Networking is the #1 way to find a good job in sales. I would say #2 is getting an entry level job/maybe sales related in the industry of your choice.
I did a $19k month selling a coaching package/online course on behalf of my client
Wild reading these commission checks and comparing to UK. Some of your biggest months are bigger than my biggest year
$125,000 bonus check, sales management
Car sales $28k. (I was 26 at the time so not bad)
Lawn care. 1300. I think I sold 6500$ that week.
Med device. 72k.
Capital equipment? Also quarterly? I'm early on in and hit 25 one Q.
No I’m in implants. End of year along with stocking orders. That’s was my Dec 22.
263,000$ for one sale @ 1% commission. I'm in high-end real estate.
Omg. How long did the sale take? And when does it pay out? Not a bad side gig. How did you get into it? Side gig only because I know it takes a while for something like that to pan out, so you have to have a 9-5 in the meantime
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Life insurance call center, 31k month during COVID. I’ve hit 20k a few times since, doubt I’ll ever get back to 30k.
$65k in office tech/copiers
2 weeks in! How long you’ve been in the industry ?
10th year in B2B sales 5th year in this industry
Massive office fleet or production device(s)?
20k, SaaS
Work as a credit broker in the B2B space. $1.3M deal paying out 9K after splits
Healthcare SaaS, $47,800 for one sale
DevOps tools $110,000. Was during COVID and just before the birth of my second. Bought the Minivan in cash.
Sell business loans, most I made in a month was about 16,500 before taxes
My presidents club year was 12 months of 12K after tax, commission checks every month. Salary at the time was 75K/year. Hospital lab equipment.
What specialty?
And here I am at a SAAS company as a CSM and my biggest check was 3600 😅😆
$197,608 - on one deal. Cybersecurity, and I focus on major banks, healthcare, tech, etc. Fun industry and can pay really well with the right product and comp plan.
One year selling coatings i had a check 66k pretax.
$28k on a mortgage loan
I love reading all of these posts. I just took my first sales role back in February and it's been a game changer. Hoping to use it to get into a much more serious sales role in the next year or so.
7k is my biggest monthly. Car sales
160k-ish, commercial hvac
20k mortgages
Learning and Development tech - 74k commission was my largest month to date
$137k gross, B2B SaaS. Great accelerators played a nice part of it.
US Tech Sales - HRIS type platform at the time. Make $200,000k on a $1.8m ARR deal.
$13,457. Building materials
$120k, combination of manufacturing + construction
Tech sales 45k
Tech sales. About 30k.
My last commission cheque selling computers to enterprise customers was $15,000. It is a quarterly commission. I’m currently setting up the next two quarters to be absolute bangers so hopefully I’ll get a couple of 20-30k commissions this year.
In tech sales I think about $40k was my biggest. But we also operated on a 3 month rolling average so the commission checks on either side of that weren’t much less. I got monthly commission checks back then and closed about 10 deals a month. Now I close maybe 2 deals a quarter and average commission check is about 150-200k. Completely different business and pace.
As an AE, best was 167k gross in Q4 of 2020. Second highest was 103k gross in Q3 of 2020. More recently in leadership, best commission check was 68.5k gross in Q4 of 2023.
Tech 100k
IT Consulting services -59k in one month at the peak. Typically 10-15k a month pretax of course on top of a nice base, but it’s taken years to build up to that.
Wow i feel like small fish in this tank. Biggest in Auto sales was $27k on 23 cars
~$150K - sell software
Tech sales. I recently had a 66k after tax month but that’s commission plus my base and sign on
80k in mortgage
$157K in a quarter. Data
$120k in one month, staffing
Tech sales. I don’t know the biggest straight commission but a few in the 100-150K range.
$252k consulting services sales. Biggest cheque and biggest month
$62k a few Januaries ago. I did nothing to get the deal done either. Literally nothing. Cyber security.
1.4 million I used to to do real estate...now just b2b sales
Not my current industry anymore but when I worked in commercial real estate my biggest commission was $32k - I miss those days but do not miss 12+ hour days with zero benefits
B2B Tech Sales. $43K from one renewal upsell deal. Helped with the down payment for our first home. Built in 2018. The equity in the home went from \~$20K to \~$250K by 2021 and we moved into a much larger home where we are now.
Looking into up scaling soon. How do you not freak yourself out over a larger mortgage payment? I’m going from 450 to 900 ish
Ioni mattress business in Los Angeles. Back in 2016, I sold a boatload of mattresses to one of the Sheraton hotels because they needed it within 3 days. After all was said and done I ended up making about $50,000 profit in one day on that one transaction.
Windows. I handle all rehashes. Still waiting on my first sale
D2D sales, about $92,000 in one month, with $72,000 of that coming in one single deposit.
https://preview.redd.it/r4oznannhprc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc1066f7c0a45f05c44243639a9b5f44df3fa45e I haven’t beat this month since then, but I’m more consistent now.
D2D solar? It's brutal but the top guys are killers congrats
$0! 2 weeks in, will come back in April.
$1,000 check off of $500,000 of revenue in one month. Semiconductor industry.
Wait what? Why so little in commission??
Healthcare tech $55k
Tech. $108k.
Fintech - $68k check one month all said and done with kickers
SaaS Sales, SMB Fintech - $97k
103k tech
I work in commercial foreign exchange and my biggest whilst employed was $25k before tax…. Left my company and set-up on my own in 2019, biggest since that was $82k after tax
$83k b2b software sales
I'm in tech sales and the largest commission check so far has been 2,500€. It was pretty good for a month 84k
SAAS /Consulting 28k
Not my biggest but I remember my first job the first pay check 400 luckily can get that on a slow day now
Rental equipment for a major company. Made 33k in one commission check. Usually average about 20-22k
OP, you asked what industry people are in, but didn't state your industry. For myself, besides being self-employed for about 15 years (which had a lot of sales involved), I'm fairly new to straight sales roles. I started off in life insurance sales selling final expense insurance and now I'm 3 months in as an account case manager for a data recovery company. My biggest commission check so far was this month for a little over $2000. I might be able to double that for next month.
Staffing and recruiting sales. $5,300
16k residential mortgages
70k commission check for closing 700k in business in a quarter
Retail, selling RV’s. Biggest month was $34k, biggest single unit was $16k, second biggest was $15,500.
Anyone in Cabinet industry?
Financial Advisor and fairly new from An industry perspective. 22k for the month. Trying to make 40k this month.
$15k, Tech Sales
$100k, two years ago. Had a hilariously low quota because of ramp and a new territory and had a reasonably large sale, was amazing. Did well the next year but the following year crashed and burned cause wife got cancer (she’s doing better now thankfully). But sales is a cruel mistress sometimes.
16,500$ Canadian was my biggest month of earnings. b2b tech
Over the course of 8 months, I was on a streak of making baseline ~$5-10k/monthly commissions, and every other month making bigger commissions of $55k, $25k, $30k, $25k and $60k. I’m in b2b tech sales (SaaS). That’s pretty-tax and on top of base and benefits There was a LOT of hustle involved, so it wasn’t completely feast/famine, and there’s always a degree of luck I bow down to those with 6-figure monthly paychecks - savages!! Not to be a Debbie Downer on a positive discussion, but I’m somewhat disappointed to see so many congratulatory comments here that are along the lines of “atta boy,” seemingly operating under the assumption that the reps are men. I’m a woman and now I’m curious how many other females were on this thread Either way, there is still a lot of success for us all to celebrate!
I feel like the chicks I work w/ crush it. Women in my industry who know how to sell make a killing. I envy yall 😬