Car Sales + Commissions??!!

[PCNfrankland]

What is the average car salesman Salary + commissions?

an electric car dealership (doesn't sell many cars and commission is £100 per car)

[LouD86]

It is really dealer dependant.

I work as a Salesman in a Indepedant Commercial dealer, and get paid a percentage of the profit in the vehicle, along with a very low basic. However, a Salesman who needs a strong basic, is not a good salesman. I reckon I'd be looking at half of minimum wage with the hours worked if I didn't sell a unit.

In a Main Dealer, the Salesman will normally be paid as such

Basic
Co Car
% Profit in Car, or single unit price
Finance Commission
Warranty Upsell
Tyre Insurance
Paint Protection
GAP/RTi

and all the other add on's, which in a lot of places is where they really make their money.

[Mexman]

Shedloads.

[couragebest88]

LouD86 said:

I reckon I'd be looking at half of minimum wage with the hours worked if I didn't sell a unit.

How can your basic salary be less than minimum wage? Or would it work out as less than minimum wage because you work a lot ‘out of hours’?

[Wilmslowboy]

At a very large dealership group (thousands of salespeople), the details as I remember them were:-


Base salary is circa £16k (about minimum wage), but there is a move to shift this to high £20's (attract people from other industries) (some of which is being encouraged by the likes of Audi/BMW, overall average earnings were circa £39k.

There were minimum targets before commission started being paid, also a shift away from a unit commission on "finance and protection' type products, due to fears around misselling.

There were a few salespeople that made £80k+ (and sales/business managers more)