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Commission or Salary is orthogonal to Well Compensated and Badly Compensated. Those students selling paintball packages in the mall are paid on commission, but
by caf 9y ago
Commission or Salary is orthogonal to Well Compensated and Badly Compensated.
Those students selling paintball packages in the mall are paid on commission, but they sure aren't being paid well.
(The article isn't "why sales people are paid a lot", it's about why their pay structure is based on a commission structure).
- sidlls 9y agoSure, but in the context of this article engineer style compensation compares poorly. That is, it's essentially a statement that engineers aren't compensated as well as sales workers, and one of the reasons given as to why that's possible is because engineers "have fun" doing engineering work even outside their jobs.
- caf 9y agoI'm not sure that's really true, though. The really good sales people get compensated really well, but the bad ones do considerably worse than engineers. The flip side of a commission based compensation package is supposed to be that the "fixed" / "base" component is very low.