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It’s not better. The numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/sudh3r/mary_kays_income_disclosure_canadian_bc_us_law/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_a
by yashap 4y ago
It’s not better. The numbers: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/sudh3r/mary_kays_income_disclosure_canadian_bc_us_law/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf https://www.reddit.com/r/antiMLM/comments/sudh3r/mary_kays_i...
~98% are making ~$255 or less PER YEAR in commissions. And then losing a tonne on expenses.
Then the ~2% making ~$25K/year in commissions are likely making a lot less once you account for expenses.
Only “Independent National Sales Directors”, ~0.044% of the salesforce, are making a good income. So about 1 in 2000, with the other 1999 making somewhere between “not much” and “large losses.”
FWIW, these numbers aren’t unique to Mary Kay, they’re pretty typical for MLMs. There’s some decent studies out there on MLM earnings, and all the big MLMs are reasonably similar. An exceptionally small number of people making legit good money, a small number making a little bit (still worse than minimum wage, after accounting for expenses), and the vast, vast majority losing money.