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What is the season actually worth?
Per sale, per week, and the whole run, after whatever gets taken off the top. Useful before you sign with a company, and useful when someone offers you a different structure.
How you’re paid
52 if you do this year-round.
Leave at 0 if nobody takes a cut.
You keep, per sale
$180
Per week
$720
Per month
$3,118
Averaged at 4.33 weeks.
Season total, 16 weeks
$11,520
64 sales.
One more sale a week is worth $2,880
Across the season, going from 4 to 5 sales a week adds $2,880, for one extra conversation that goes your way every week. That’s usually a smaller ask than it sounds like, which is exactly why it’s worth putting a number on.
Gross of tax, fuel, and anything your company claws back on cancellations. If your pay has tiers that step up at a volume threshold, run it twice, once at each tier, and see what crossing the line is worth.
Reading a comp plan without getting talked into one
A higher percentage isn’t automatically a better deal
Fifteen percent of a smaller average ticket loses to ten percent of a bigger one, every time. When you’re comparing two offers, run both through with each company’s actual average contract value rather than comparing the percentages. If a recruiter cannot tell you their average ticket, that’s itself information.
Ask what happens on a cancellation
Chargebacks are the number that quietly rewrites this calculator. A plan that pays well and claws back for ninety days is a different plan from one that pays slightly less and does not. Ask what percentage of deals cancel, and ask it as a number rather than a feeling.
Tiers are worth mapping before the season, not during it
If your rate steps up after a volume threshold, run the calculator once below the line and once above it. The gap is often large enough that the last two sales before the threshold are worth several times the first two. That changes how you spend the final week of a month, and is exactly the kind of thing nobody works out until it is too late to act on.
The split is the part people forget to negotiate
Percentage to a manager or a setter is usually presented as fixed. Sometimes it is. Put your real numbers in above, look at what five points of split costs you across a full season, and then decide whether it’s worth one uncomfortable conversation.
What this doesn’t include
Tax, fuel, lodging on a summer program, equipment, and anything deducted for cancellations. It’s a gross-commission tool. If you want the number that actually lands in your account, subtract those afterwards. And if you’re on a program that houses you, count that as pay, because it is.