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>I'd actually love to see more jobs that offered the opportunity to work with a small base salary but increased compensation levels based on measurable results.
by GBond 16y ago
>I'd actually love to see more jobs that offered the opportunity to work with a small base salary but increased compensation levels based on measurable results.
Many sales positions are like this (eg. Enterprise Software).
The key of such pay model is being easily measured down to the individual (which sales is). It doesn't apply to most cases because it is hard to accurately measure contributions of individual's performance of a product/result that is comprise of a team of peers.
The "body shop" biz model is also easily measured (sit on seat 1 hr = pay for 1 hr).
- matwood 16y ago"Sales" isn't that easy to measure. Sure, the sales person might have been the face to the other company, but were they the real reason the sale closed? I've written a bunch of small pieces of software for my current company and many new clients have said the only reason they picked my company over a competitor was my value add software. Did I see any of the sale commission? Nope.
- maigret 16y agoRight, but still sale is a job only certain people can do (it's the same for programming I think) - so switching to sale is not that easy for most developers. Also if you are a very good programmer, switching to a whole other job you will not be able to reuse your programming skills like you could for a better paid gig in a slightly similar programming topic.