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29 Critical Sales Compensation Benchmarks & Statistics for 2022

The Spiff Blog

If you’ve worked in sales, revenue operations, or finance for any amount of time, I don’t have to tell you how important sales compensation is. You already know the right sales compensation plan can motivate your team, improve their performance, and boost overall job satisfaction. Insurance Sales Agents: $50,600.

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Base Salary: What It Is, How It Works, & What It Can Look Like

Hubspot Sales

Any professional, across every field and experience level, needs to have a solid understanding of how they're compensated — after all, that's literally the reason you're working in the first place. Your base salary is one of the key elements you need to account for when getting that picture of your compensation package.

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The Nature and Necessity of Uncapped Commission

Hubspot Sales

As a sales rep, you have to reconcile the fact that you're trying to make as much money as possible with the fact that you can only make a finite amount of sales in a given quarter. That's why uncapped commission can be a powerful incentive for sales reps to exceed expectations. Why would a company want to cap commission?

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Sales Agility Excellence: The Sales Infrastructure You Need to Enable Success

Crunchbase

The business of sales is as nuanced as sales industries, salespeople and buyers themselves, with some industries requiring in-person selling with plenty of touchpoints and follow-ups. The same goes for the health of your sales department. Strong sales infrastructures prepare organizations to adjust to any economic climate.

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Sales Managers – Why Isn’t Goal Setting Easy?

Anthony Cole Training

I was first introduced to goal setting in sales when I was an insurance agent with National Life of Vermont. I never did write 100 lives but, based on the sales activity reporting I did every week, I should have. I failed in the life insurance business. Towards the end of my career, I contracted with a sales trainer, Tom.

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Everything You Need to Know About Sales Commission in 2019 (For Reps & Leaders)

Hubspot Sales

Compensation is an important factor in attracting and retaining employees, especially in sales. Imagine if almost half of your sales team left the company because of a poorly designed compensation plan. The sales commission is an amount of money salespeople earn as a result of sales they've made.

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A Forthcoming Shift of Pharmaceutical Sales Compensation Plans?

OpenSymmetry

Sales in the pharmaceutical industry has been a rigid and consistent business. Tactics may have changed, but for the most part these sales teams still run on a commission or quota based metric determined by well-planned territories.