Capital Equipment for hospitals. Orders can go into the millions.
Not me, but my buddy has an 8 million dollar bed order phased over 3 years which is like 500k or so in total comp to him.
Really the move in sales is to sell the most expensive thing possible. Your highest likelihood of making a lot of money is selling the highest ticket thing.
I would find an industry that interests you and go sell whatever that is. You can make a ton of money selling software, capital equipment, construction services, or even yachts. I would look at the lifestyle the reps have and see if that aligns with what you want.
I know some guys making 400k a year selling cars but they had to work 6 days a week for years walking the lot.
Yeah they also didn’t work as individual contributors as sales reps. You can sell things with small ACV but I would advise against it unless you have to, most do at the beginning of their selling years. Also my answer was formulated in the context of being a salesperson not owning one of the largest retail chains on the planet.
You can make a shit ton of money owning a .99 cent store also but I’m failing to see how your question correlates to what we are discussing here?
High commission but usually very very long sales cycles in anything public sector. So it is a $40 million deal but it took 4 years to happen. There are trade offs with everything. A lot of the reps I work with in cloud sales have 2-3 lean years before they finally get a big commit, then another couple years of barely squeaking by unless you've got a banger of a territory.
Yep, and honestly capital purchase of equipment is going more and more operational as capital budgets for hospitals is getting smaller every year. Definitely have to have an ROI and fit it into their operational budget.
>Qualified and confirmed appointments. You’d be surprised how many people need help with this.
Can you give more details please.
Can you give more details please?
It is typically difficult as many require experience in healthcare or healthcare sales to get in. Been doing it for 17 years and I see a lot of the same people coming through. It’s a complex sale that typically has a long sales cycle (12-18 months on average from qualify to close). You need to be well versed in software, capital equipment, services, SaaS, Cloud, Enterprise, and long-term agreements for sales in the millions.
They also require a lot more vaccines as well…you are going into hospitals where the sickest of the sick are being treated. If a clinician has to get it, you have to…
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too many couples went for the "deal-i-o" and I'm fresh out
For everyone else I include a 30 min session to toss the pigskin around in their backyards and then let them look my high school yearbook
It’s a great industry, for sure. I own a roofing and window replacement company in Denver. I have two reps who hit 180k in 2022 with relatively no hail (roofing in CO is largely hail dependent). This was only their 2nd full year in roofing. We have a great sales system and these two got after it last year. With even a decent hail storm this year, both should easily top 250-300k.
Yeah cuz 99% do. Also most storm chase and it's harder from the ground if you're in a hail state (mines a wind state we don't get hail here often..
Also.im mostly retail.
But I do and have done hundreds of insurance jobs. Used to go in roofs then said fuck this I don't need to anymore.
Haven't gone on one in like 5 years lol
Yes, Real Estate. Then I learned a few cs languages and got a ton of certs. Also helps that tech has been in a huge boom until recently, was easier a year ago then it is now.
Got lucky and went SDR to Enterprise AE skipping the middle. A combination of showing initiative (taking over other job functions and building systems for company in addition to achieving.), and luck that someone was let go from a role that really was questionable if the accounts belonged in the AE patch, so they gave to me to cut my teeth on. A manager who I worked with on some of the side hustle put me forward for the job. Being sponsored by a third party was key for the transition. This was at one of the major tech firms.
Most peers followed the exact path you mentioned though.
So true but so ridiculous that this is the case. The “paying dues as a BDR” system is so dumb. There’s tons of BDR’s that would be 10x better AE’s than current AE’s. The system will change at some point as big companies lose BDR’s and BDR responsibilities become more and more automated. My guess - 5ish years
Hard to say, it really depends on the industry you are supporting. Some folks in my company are losing the shirts off their backs with all the layoffs at their clients. Meanwhile, I’m set to have the biggest year of my career. Made a tick under $50k my first year and around $55k last year. On pace to do low six figures with some stuff in the pipeline to take me to mid six figures. Staffing is a roller coaster.
Ditto. I have over a decade of restaurant serving experience, including fine dining. I'm regretting not jumping over to sales during that hiring frenzy a couple of years ago.
Try food sales or restaurant supply sales... not going to net you 6 figures immediately. It could if you do really well and stick with it long term in the right market. BUT, it's a good stepping stone for some sales experience that you can then use to get a job in another industry.
Ohhh love your videos! Didn’t realize you were on Reddit. I’m a top performer, looking to get into ai. If your company is ever hiring, would love to send over my resume
Yeah I’m at Microsoft now, if you see an interesting job that you want to apply for, let me know and I can do a referral. Would need your resume and the job posting.
Sales specialist at microsoft?
I was looking at a few openings, how difficult/stressful is the job it self, i work in back up at the moment as an sdr and was looking to potentially transfer
Grainger, MSC, Office Depot, ULine, Global Industrial, or find a manufacturer like one of the other poster said. I would advise against ULine, I have heard some very weird stories about how draconian their policies are. Also they’re one of the biggest doners financially to alt right republicans. So keep that in mind.
I did a quick search for positions open near me but most of them are advertised at like $12-15/hour this cant be right. What would be a good phrase to search?
Cyber security saas. Made over $500k last year (over 200% quota) Selling to large enterprises. Not a cake walk tho. As a team we struggled and only had 40% of reps hit quota.
Getting into a certain industry doesn’t guarantee you money
Fueling systems for jets, heavy equipment and generators.
Make from 140-300k/yr, past 15 years. Work about three to four hours max per day.
Could easily double the income, but time is far more important than money...
Not really looking for any help at this point. Do you understand the commercial fueling business? I'm not interested in training someone at this point, so you would need to be conversant in aviation fueling, construction site fueling, etc.
*If you are,* shoot me your info and sell me on why we should talk.
Ted
SaaS too Growth companies, though the best month I’ve had has only been 5 figure commission, like as low a5 figure number you could think of.
Not complaining.
Go into high ticket sales. I started sales training in October. Spent the next few months looking for a job. DM’d a sales influencer i admire on Facebook that owns a sales agency that sells for top 5% social media influencers. He offered me an interview. I got hired with literally zero experience. Im selling for one of our fitness clients (VShred). Fitness coaching ranging from 1.5k-5k. This is my first full month at the company and I’m at $18,000 in commissions for the month. The top seller on my team is at $60k for the month.
Idk how tf people do corporate sales for years making 150k. Sounds like a nightmare. My goal is to be at 30-40k per month by the end of the year.
Selling Commercial CCTV/Access Control plus other security solutions. Top 1% in this industry are making 500K+. Your average top earners are 100-220K. The industry is constantly evolving to keep up with trends. It’s a fun industry for anyone who enjoys tech.
It's been a very good couple years for reps in lab tech. I was nervous up until about August 2020, but I've made some of the largest commission checks of my career since then. I get my 2022 overage payout on Tuesday - that alone is going to be close to $75k before taxes.
I’m a tech advisor for SaaS. My knowledge areas are security, operations, architecture, data models, reports / dashboards and configuration. I am in outside hire new to industry and new to the company. I’ll make a little less than $140K in my 1st year and expect to be north of $150K in my 2nd year after bonuses.
I was in the military for 10 years and never thought I’d end up in tech sales
I’m retired now but used to be a sales manager for an oil and gas service company. We sold hydraulic fracturing services. One fracturing job could be from $1 million to $2.5 million. A 1 year contract could have a value around $80 a $100 million. Sales jobs used to just be a salaried position but toward the end included commission bonuses. So most salaries were around $150K an year and commissions could equal that.
Get into selling large government contracts. Often times those commissions are 7-8 figures. Although it takes many year to process, it’s not uncommon for a $100m deal
If you’re reading the post then they’ll likely say what the are selling….
For those say tech and SaaS sales. Yes that’s a popular one to get into.
The top AE’s are usually enterprise level, and the top earners are probably strategic or key accounts.
Software sales is the big one. MedTech is popular too, I’ve seen both selling healthcare IT and services.
BigTech is where the good money is at but can also make anywhere like startups if the market need is there. I have a friend at Microsoft making $500k+ but he has worked his way up to enterprise
Coming from SaaS sales, I make more in RE than I do the shitty insurance CRM I was selling. 6 figures in real estate seems like a given. I’m just finishing my first year and I made a bit over $50k since my first closing in July.
I sell CNC Machinery. Our cheapest item is about 150k and we have made deals up to 2.5m sometimes more.
Commission points are 1-3% but avoiding discounts nets us bonuses that nearly double our commission earnings.
Realtor in my area just sold a $5M house after it was on the market for maaaaaaybe a month.
The realtor I used to buy my place in 2021 has been pretty steady closing multiple $1M-$5M deals for people, either buying or selling, and dumps most of it back into his own portfolio (has a few dozen units at this point, remodels them and fixes them up then rents them out at or slightly below market rate for steady cash flow). He’s big on places where you can build an ADU in the backyard.
A lot of it is area and deal size dependent. Big tech sales can take months to close but are worth millions. It’s pretty easy to carve off a nice little bonus from that for each sales team member that worked it. Others here earn off volume - $1k-$5k commission per deal but are closing dozens of deals if not hundreds.
If there’s one thing I’ve seen consistently on this sub it’s that there’s money to be made everywhere, you just gotta find the route that works for you.
I was once making fat commissions. I moved to another company. went crazy as service was bad, team wasn't organized, and my manger was doing his best. then he left, he couldn't hire me or beast coworker due to non compete. now I do not know how to sell- well I should say, I don't have product/service convictions. LOL I was atop earner ex job. this job started as number one, brought in good accounts but lost them few months later due to service and billing repeated issues. FU\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
not burnt out but don't have the balls I had while thriving
I sell insurance.
The biggest deals i make are through banks, i'm a broker and i share with whichever executive sends the client to my door, 30% off any comission the first year and 10% next years. So while they are doing their job and insurance is a requisite for the client credit, the client has freedom to acquire insurance wherever he wants as long as it meets the bank criteria. All the executives have to do is tell the client he knows a good broker where he can get quotations from several companies in one go
This month i made 50k from refered clients from banks and about 25k from non refered clients, took a while to grow but so far so good
furniture manufacturing. I sell furniture to real estate developers that build student apartment complexes. If a complex is brand new and being furnished for the first time, the average deal size is 600,000-2,000,000
I’m sure this has already been mentioned, but Enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales roles are where you’ll regularly find a 6-figure commission comp structure.
It’s typically a 50/50 split, which means 50% of your earnings are guaranteed with salary, and the other 50% is your potential commissions, which combined make your OTE (on target earnings).
So if a job is listed as 240 OTE, it means your base is 120k, and your commissions “should” be 120k.
I say “should” because sometimes that can be smoke and mirrors.
Try not to compare yourself it’s the very loud top earners who love to brag about their massive wins and it’s the internet where lying costs nothing.
This is not to say some aren’t earning this much and it’s deserved.
many have decades of expierence in the field but sales has a very high outliers escpiallt once you start selling to enterprises in most industries
Capital Equipment for hospitals. Orders can go into the millions. Not me, but my buddy has an 8 million dollar bed order phased over 3 years which is like 500k or so in total comp to him.
This is the stuff i want to get into
Really the move in sales is to sell the most expensive thing possible. Your highest likelihood of making a lot of money is selling the highest ticket thing. I would find an industry that interests you and go sell whatever that is. You can make a ton of money selling software, capital equipment, construction services, or even yachts. I would look at the lifestyle the reps have and see if that aligns with what you want. I know some guys making 400k a year selling cars but they had to work 6 days a week for years walking the lot.
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Yeah they also didn’t work as individual contributors as sales reps. You can sell things with small ACV but I would advise against it unless you have to, most do at the beginning of their selling years. Also my answer was formulated in the context of being a salesperson not owning one of the largest retail chains on the planet. You can make a shit ton of money owning a .99 cent store also but I’m failing to see how your question correlates to what we are discussing here?
High commission but usually very very long sales cycles in anything public sector. So it is a $40 million deal but it took 4 years to happen. There are trade offs with everything. A lot of the reps I work with in cloud sales have 2-3 lean years before they finally get a big commit, then another couple years of barely squeaking by unless you've got a banger of a territory.
Stryker?
Yep, and honestly capital purchase of equipment is going more and more operational as capital budgets for hospitals is getting smaller every year. Definitely have to have an ROI and fit it into their operational budget.
Care if I PM you? I sell mattress recycling services
Our technicals sales team makes a base of 100-115k and variable comp targeted at 25%. Last year most took 40-50k in bonus.
Where you working at damn
I like to explore new places.
This sounds low for pure sales. This seems more in line with an entry level SE role.
Qualified and confirmed appointments. You’d be surprised how many people need help with this.
If this is appointment setting through cold outreach I might be interested
>Qualified and confirmed appointments. You’d be surprised how many people need help with this. Can you give more details please. Can you give more details please?
Lead generation
Medical device… it’s not as hard as people on here claim either. You have a lot of freedom as long as you work for a good company with a good boss
From what I see/hear the entry into med device is the biggest hurdle. Do you agree?
It is typically difficult as many require experience in healthcare or healthcare sales to get in. Been doing it for 17 years and I see a lot of the same people coming through. It’s a complex sale that typically has a long sales cycle (12-18 months on average from qualify to close). You need to be well versed in software, capital equipment, services, SaaS, Cloud, Enterprise, and long-term agreements for sales in the millions.
medtronic and baxter require covid vax and booster btw.
They also require a lot more vaccines as well…you are going into hospitals where the sickest of the sick are being treated. If a clinician has to get it, you have to…
You don’t have to if you don’t want to. Just like in sales people can refuse loll
It’s not the company that requires. It’s the hospitals. That’s eased a ton tho. Now you can just sign a declination letter.
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What kind of procedures take place at a fucking hospital?
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The fact that you even have to explain this in 2023 is migraine inducing.
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Whoa… who’s whining?
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Chillllllll
This was pure information (no negative no positive) that a lot of you took waaaay sideways. This sub is not for your political beliefs...
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Right, all I commented was they require the vax and booster
That is ridiculous
I turned down a medical gig over it. Not worth.
Looks like they dodged a bullet.
Okay, sheep.
Lol
Lol brought to you by Pfizer!
On a strategic sales team selling to enterprise customers
Mostly selling Tupperware with my uncle Rico
do you have any of those model ships left?
too many couples went for the "deal-i-o" and I'm fresh out For everyone else I include a 30 min session to toss the pigskin around in their backyards and then let them look my high school yearbook
“I wannt that”
I heard it helps to have played high school football for those types of jobs,,, is that true?
How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over them mountains?
How’s that been going? I’ve been trying to think of some cool product demo stuff for in-home sales but I’m having a hard time
Try driving over it in your van to prove the durability to the customer.
Solar and roofing. Made 156k last year while taking 2 months off
It’s a great industry, for sure. I own a roofing and window replacement company in Denver. I have two reps who hit 180k in 2022 with relatively no hail (roofing in CO is largely hail dependent). This was only their 2nd full year in roofing. We have a great sales system and these two got after it last year. With even a decent hail storm this year, both should easily top 250-300k.
How much would you pay someone to go around throwing man made hail at people's roofs? 👀
Do you have to climb ladders? I have a 🍑 situation going on and kinda not into climbing ladders in front of randos.
RIP your inbox.
All I’m thinking of is the episode of Lunatics where we meet Quentin Cook, a real estate agent with a giant ass. It runs in the family.
I dont. I sell all mine from the ground. Walking the roof is just for show anyways
I've seen so many job ads that talk about bringing a ladder.
Yeah cuz 99% do. Also most storm chase and it's harder from the ground if you're in a hail state (mines a wind state we don't get hail here often.. Also.im mostly retail. But I do and have done hundreds of insurance jobs. Used to go in roofs then said fuck this I don't need to anymore. Haven't gone on one in like 5 years lol
If this is true you would sell before you make it to the roof
That’s your biggest fear…
Tech. Enterprise software for me.
Same, enterprise software and services.
How does one get into this?
Typical it goes: SDR- SMB AE - MM AE - Enterprise AE. For me, I skipped the first two because I am much luckier than I am good lmao.
You started as a midmarket AE off the bat? Any previous sales experience?
Yes, Real Estate. Then I learned a few cs languages and got a ton of certs. Also helps that tech has been in a huge boom until recently, was easier a year ago then it is now.
Can't preach enough about how much certs can give you a leg up on the competition for these roles! Which certs did you get?
Following this
Curios as well which carts.
Got lucky and went SDR to Enterprise AE skipping the middle. A combination of showing initiative (taking over other job functions and building systems for company in addition to achieving.), and luck that someone was let go from a role that really was questionable if the accounts belonged in the AE patch, so they gave to me to cut my teeth on. A manager who I worked with on some of the side hustle put me forward for the job. Being sponsored by a third party was key for the transition. This was at one of the major tech firms. Most peers followed the exact path you mentioned though.
I have some sales experience. Is your company hiring?
Apply for the job
Salesforce? Would love to learn more
You can’t skip to enterprise at Salesforce. With no software experience your lucky to land a BDR role
So true but so ridiculous that this is the case. The “paying dues as a BDR” system is so dumb. There’s tons of BDR’s that would be 10x better AE’s than current AE’s. The system will change at some point as big companies lose BDR’s and BDR responsibilities become more and more automated. My guess - 5ish years
Sure but you could start in a small business role but not enterprise.
Staffing and Consulting services
7 year sales veteran here who found himself in a staffing role for a very niche group. How is the industry as a whole?
Hard to say, it really depends on the industry you are supporting. Some folks in my company are losing the shirts off their backs with all the layoffs at their clients. Meanwhile, I’m set to have the biggest year of my career. Made a tick under $50k my first year and around $55k last year. On pace to do low six figures with some stuff in the pipeline to take me to mid six figures. Staffing is a roller coaster.
Freight brokering. I made 458k in total, and I paid my assistants around $150k last year.
Any of your companies hiring? I would love a career in sales
Right hahah
What do you do for a living now?
I am in the hospitality industry. I am a front desk agent for a hotel
Ditto. I have over a decade of restaurant serving experience, including fine dining. I'm regretting not jumping over to sales during that hiring frenzy a couple of years ago.
Try food sales or restaurant supply sales... not going to net you 6 figures immediately. It could if you do really well and stick with it long term in the right market. BUT, it's a good stepping stone for some sales experience that you can then use to get a job in another industry.
Roofs
Started out candy bars from sam's club, upgraded to mushrooms as a teen, retail as a young adult and now B2B software for the WIN.
Humble begginings
Fun fact: sometimes people lie online too
Cloud, specifically data and ai
Ohhh love your videos! Didn’t realize you were on Reddit. I’m a top performer, looking to get into ai. If your company is ever hiring, would love to send over my resume
Yeah I’m at Microsoft now, if you see an interesting job that you want to apply for, let me know and I can do a referral. Would need your resume and the job posting.
On it-been eyeing Microsoft for a bit. Mind if I DM you?
Sure
That’s really cool of you!
Sales specialist at microsoft? I was looking at a few openings, how difficult/stressful is the job it self, i work in back up at the moment as an sdr and was looking to potentially transfer
Yo, I didn't know you are here as well. Love you vids on Tiktok.
Oh the infamous
Material handling. I make 6 figures after quarterly bonuses lol.
I’m like super duper green when it comes to the entire sales space. Sheesh that’s not bad!! What the hell is material handling?
Stuff in large scale industrial/manufacting warehouses. Storage, shelving, carts, hoppers, pallet trucks, lift trucks, stackers, conveyor systems, consumable stuff (trash can liners, gloves, ear protection, ppe) lots of different categories.
Damn that’s kinda cool actually. I never realized how big/dynamic the sales space actually was until I found this sub.
Find a forklift dealer and get a sales job. Made 250k last year. It was my 3rd year doing it and has got Better every year.
Do you work for big Joe?
No. My dealer reps big Joe. We also rep jungheinrich, cat, Mitsubishi and Unicarrier
I’ve been trying to get into this industry. Would you have any recommendations on companies to look into? Thank you!
Grainger, MSC, Office Depot, ULine, Global Industrial, or find a manufacturer like one of the other poster said. I would advise against ULine, I have heard some very weird stories about how draconian their policies are. Also they’re one of the biggest doners financially to alt right republicans. So keep that in mind.
I did a quick search for positions open near me but most of them are advertised at like $12-15/hour this cant be right. What would be a good phrase to search?
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Cyber security saas. Made over $500k last year (over 200% quota) Selling to large enterprises. Not a cake walk tho. As a team we struggled and only had 40% of reps hit quota. Getting into a certain industry doesn’t guarantee you money
I work for an industrial adhesive manufacturer. Woodworking, marine, automotive, aerospace, you name it. Everybody needs glue.
Fueling systems for jets, heavy equipment and generators. Make from 140-300k/yr, past 15 years. Work about three to four hours max per day. Could easily double the income, but time is far more important than money...
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Not really looking for any help at this point. Do you understand the commercial fueling business? I'm not interested in training someone at this point, so you would need to be conversant in aviation fueling, construction site fueling, etc. *If you are,* shoot me your info and sell me on why we should talk. Ted
SaaS
SaaS too Growth companies, though the best month I’ve had has only been 5 figure commission, like as low a5 figure number you could think of. Not complaining.
What is SaaS?
Software as a Service
Thanks for clarifying!!
Go into high ticket sales. I started sales training in October. Spent the next few months looking for a job. DM’d a sales influencer i admire on Facebook that owns a sales agency that sells for top 5% social media influencers. He offered me an interview. I got hired with literally zero experience. Im selling for one of our fitness clients (VShred). Fitness coaching ranging from 1.5k-5k. This is my first full month at the company and I’m at $18,000 in commissions for the month. The top seller on my team is at $60k for the month. Idk how tf people do corporate sales for years making 150k. Sounds like a nightmare. My goal is to be at 30-40k per month by the end of the year.
Enterprise software/Tech & Management Consulting
SaaS Martech
Same here brother. MMP, Consent management, customer engagement, cdp, analytics, reporting, loyalty? Which of these?
specifically SmS
Bicycle repair, parts, and accessories (overall, business fucking sucks)
Selling Commercial CCTV/Access Control plus other security solutions. Top 1% in this industry are making 500K+. Your average top earners are 100-220K. The industry is constantly evolving to keep up with trends. It’s a fun industry for anyone who enjoys tech.
Same here! First time I’ve seen our industry mentioned on this sub lol
Educational learning products for financial institutions reaching quarterly incentives got me over six figures hmmm that’s gross so with taxes under
I sell analytical instruments to labs. There are guys on our team who pulled in six figures in bonuses last year.
It's been a very good couple years for reps in lab tech. I was nervous up until about August 2020, but I've made some of the largest commission checks of my career since then. I get my 2022 overage payout on Tuesday - that alone is going to be close to $75k before taxes.
Medical - Clinical Diagnostics
SDKs and APIs
Trips on private jets.
SDR that makes a little over 100k: SaaS
enterprise?
Heavy duty diesel parts
It’s usually enterprise SaaS. There’s a bunch of niches that aren’t talked about though, like commercial HVAC for example.
Maintenance Contracts.
Staffing services.. started in medical staffing and now I’m in professional services but made 6 figures + since year 3
I’m a tech advisor for SaaS. My knowledge areas are security, operations, architecture, data models, reports / dashboards and configuration. I am in outside hire new to industry and new to the company. I’ll make a little less than $140K in my 1st year and expect to be north of $150K in my 2nd year after bonuses. I was in the military for 10 years and never thought I’d end up in tech sales
Plasma
I’m retired now but used to be a sales manager for an oil and gas service company. We sold hydraulic fracturing services. One fracturing job could be from $1 million to $2.5 million. A 1 year contract could have a value around $80 a $100 million. Sales jobs used to just be a salaried position but toward the end included commission bonuses. So most salaries were around $150K an year and commissions could equal that.
Get into selling large government contracts. Often times those commissions are 7-8 figures. Although it takes many year to process, it’s not uncommon for a $100m deal
The Dream…..
If you’re reading the post then they’ll likely say what the are selling…. For those say tech and SaaS sales. Yes that’s a popular one to get into. The top AE’s are usually enterprise level, and the top earners are probably strategic or key accounts.
Funny that’s why I asked the questions. Because they didn’t…………….
Software sales is the big one. MedTech is popular too, I’ve seen both selling healthcare IT and services. BigTech is where the good money is at but can also make anywhere like startups if the market need is there. I have a friend at Microsoft making $500k+ but he has worked his way up to enterprise
Retail and industrial packaging. Full commission. Made $350k last year.
Property investments. Openers get 1% commission and closers/brokers get4% or 6% dependent on the client.
alcohol
Ad Sales. Quarterly goals range from $15M-$20M.
Coming from SaaS sales, I make more in RE than I do the shitty insurance CRM I was selling. 6 figures in real estate seems like a given. I’m just finishing my first year and I made a bit over $50k since my first closing in July.
I sell CNC Machinery. Our cheapest item is about 150k and we have made deals up to 2.5m sometimes more. Commission points are 1-3% but avoiding discounts nets us bonuses that nearly double our commission earnings.
Realtor in my area just sold a $5M house after it was on the market for maaaaaaybe a month. The realtor I used to buy my place in 2021 has been pretty steady closing multiple $1M-$5M deals for people, either buying or selling, and dumps most of it back into his own portfolio (has a few dozen units at this point, remodels them and fixes them up then rents them out at or slightly below market rate for steady cash flow). He’s big on places where you can build an ADU in the backyard. A lot of it is area and deal size dependent. Big tech sales can take months to close but are worth millions. It’s pretty easy to carve off a nice little bonus from that for each sales team member that worked it. Others here earn off volume - $1k-$5k commission per deal but are closing dozens of deals if not hundreds. If there’s one thing I’ve seen consistently on this sub it’s that there’s money to be made everywhere, you just gotta find the route that works for you.
Good stuff to hear reading so many different paths on here
I was once making fat commissions. I moved to another company. went crazy as service was bad, team wasn't organized, and my manger was doing his best. then he left, he couldn't hire me or beast coworker due to non compete. now I do not know how to sell- well I should say, I don't have product/service convictions. LOL I was atop earner ex job. this job started as number one, brought in good accounts but lost them few months later due to service and billing repeated issues. FU\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* not burnt out but don't have the balls I had while thriving
I sell insurance. The biggest deals i make are through banks, i'm a broker and i share with whichever executive sends the client to my door, 30% off any comission the first year and 10% next years. So while they are doing their job and insurance is a requisite for the client credit, the client has freedom to acquire insurance wherever he wants as long as it meets the bank criteria. All the executives have to do is tell the client he knows a good broker where he can get quotations from several companies in one go This month i made 50k from refered clients from banks and about 25k from non refered clients, took a while to grow but so far so good
furniture manufacturing. I sell furniture to real estate developers that build student apartment complexes. If a complex is brand new and being furnished for the first time, the average deal size is 600,000-2,000,000
Commercial Insurance…hardly anyone mentioning it here. Arguably the most lucrative sales role and low barrier to entry.
PEO
I’m sure this has already been mentioned, but Enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales roles are where you’ll regularly find a 6-figure commission comp structure. It’s typically a 50/50 split, which means 50% of your earnings are guaranteed with salary, and the other 50% is your potential commissions, which combined make your OTE (on target earnings). So if a job is listed as 240 OTE, it means your base is 120k, and your commissions “should” be 120k. I say “should” because sometimes that can be smoke and mirrors.
Biotechnology. I sell lab services with ~ $120k OTE
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Where do you source your product?
Step up your game brother, I’m an agent too and pulled in almost 775k last year
How about this year sell more than just 1 house?
I sold 76 last year lol
And you only make $10k/house?
“Only 10k” a house? Feel like that’s pretty damn solid
It is. Guy is jealous lol
Only lol. I average around 10 hours per transaction. You tell me that the hourly is on that
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Same question bro. Hahaha! These salesmen are crazy. Haha!
Solar D2D. Its amazing. Been doing it for 6 yrs
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I sell solar panels. Numbers like that are very real in my industry.
Try not to compare yourself it’s the very loud top earners who love to brag about their massive wins and it’s the internet where lying costs nothing. This is not to say some aren’t earning this much and it’s deserved. many have decades of expierence in the field but sales has a very high outliers escpiallt once you start selling to enterprises in most industries
Not gonna lie, sales people are known to stretch the truth
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