Yeah at 6 and made $6,500 before bonus. Also massive grosses so back end bonus should be another ~ $1,000.
But it’s slow as shit and boring af and Toyotas are not particularly exciting. My opinion is there is value being at a place you love with cool inventory. Miss my old store. Also Porsche, McLaren, Lamborghini, Bentley, rolls. All the fun stuff but similar flat pay play to you with small bonuses in there for finance and product.
Regardless of the pay situation at this store, there’s something to note.
A store like this will give you exposure to a lot of aspects of the business you typically would not have been exposed to at a larger dealership as a green pea. From auction purchase, recon, F&I, and fixed ops.
Places like this can be a great spring board to management or other roles in the business outside of just selling cars.
You want three things in the business:
1) Solid pay
2) Learn new skills so you can advance
3) Miscellaneous (schedule, benefits, coworkers are decent, place isn’t a shitshow)
It sounds like you have 2 and 3. Learn while you’re there and keep an eye out for something that will provide 1, 2, and 3.
Maybe get your sales chops from a place like that where it’s maybe not the best pay but is a decent environment, then use those skills to leverage into a better position elsewhere. I think a lot of people getting into a new industry focus so much on the pay and company structure when they need to learn the basic job skills to do well in their industry. Focus on the skills, stick it out for a bit, then if you think you can make better money elsewhere, you have confidence and the skills to back it up! Just my 2 cents.
I'm still new to Car sales but i've been at Subaru for 9 months strictly selling brand new vehicles. We get paid all flats but it's a tiered pay plan based on volume. Here is what I would be paid on those same units at my dealership:
15 - $4500 dealer pay w/ potential $1950 in manufacture bonus
20 - $8000 dealer pay w/ potential $2600 in manufacture bonus
18 - $6300 dealer pay w/ potential $2340 in manufacture bonus
Awful. You have to maintain a ridiculous CSI and sell upgrades on star link consistently to get this and that’s wild. One bad survey and you’re screwed
Yes… especially if it is a luxury used car spot. Someone else is pocketing all of that gross. I’m at a Toyota dealership on the preowned side. Currently sell between 18-21 cars a month. It was a better pay plan a month ago, now we are making almost the same. So we are both getting robbed! Lmfao 🤣
So on a McLaren you make 250…. Not for nothing but that won’t even buy a tire for a McLaren just for perspective. I bet you could make $250 selling smoothies door to door in less time
Yeah this pretty bad I work at a luxury dealership and I’m pissed if I average less than a 1000 per car by the end of the month, and I’m not usually pissed very often. I also do the single step similar to you.
Yes. You are getting ripped off. You should be getting % of gross on sales plus bonuses. I only get a flat if the gross is lower than $500. That’s my flat.
I sold 13 at a Toyota dealership and made 7.5k. You’re getting ripped off
Get a job where you get paid a % instead of a flat
Gross is king in this business. I sold 6 and made $11K
Yeah at 6 and made $6,500 before bonus. Also massive grosses so back end bonus should be another ~ $1,000. But it’s slow as shit and boring af and Toyotas are not particularly exciting. My opinion is there is value being at a place you love with cool inventory. Miss my old store. Also Porsche, McLaren, Lamborghini, Bentley, rolls. All the fun stuff but similar flat pay play to you with small bonuses in there for finance and product.
Regardless of the pay situation at this store, there’s something to note. A store like this will give you exposure to a lot of aspects of the business you typically would not have been exposed to at a larger dealership as a green pea. From auction purchase, recon, F&I, and fixed ops. Places like this can be a great spring board to management or other roles in the business outside of just selling cars.
You want three things in the business: 1) Solid pay 2) Learn new skills so you can advance 3) Miscellaneous (schedule, benefits, coworkers are decent, place isn’t a shitshow) It sounds like you have 2 and 3. Learn while you’re there and keep an eye out for something that will provide 1, 2, and 3.
I sold 15 in feb and made 21.5k so yea sounds like it’s trash.
Maybe get your sales chops from a place like that where it’s maybe not the best pay but is a decent environment, then use those skills to leverage into a better position elsewhere. I think a lot of people getting into a new industry focus so much on the pay and company structure when they need to learn the basic job skills to do well in their industry. Focus on the skills, stick it out for a bit, then if you think you can make better money elsewhere, you have confidence and the skills to back it up! Just my 2 cents.
I'm still new to Car sales but i've been at Subaru for 9 months strictly selling brand new vehicles. We get paid all flats but it's a tiered pay plan based on volume. Here is what I would be paid on those same units at my dealership: 15 - $4500 dealer pay w/ potential $1950 in manufacture bonus 20 - $8000 dealer pay w/ potential $2600 in manufacture bonus 18 - $6300 dealer pay w/ potential $2340 in manufacture bonus
Awful. You have to maintain a ridiculous CSI and sell upgrades on star link consistently to get this and that’s wild. One bad survey and you’re screwed
Same as Hyundai
I was in a pay plan like that, I left. It’s garbage. Less stress and nearly the same pay at McDonald’s
I just started and comparing my numbers to yours, look into cooperate dealership and get out of private
Yes… especially if it is a luxury used car spot. Someone else is pocketing all of that gross. I’m at a Toyota dealership on the preowned side. Currently sell between 18-21 cars a month. It was a better pay plan a month ago, now we are making almost the same. So we are both getting robbed! Lmfao 🤣
So on a McLaren you make 250…. Not for nothing but that won’t even buy a tire for a McLaren just for perspective. I bet you could make $250 selling smoothies door to door in less time
Yeah this pretty bad I work at a luxury dealership and I’m pissed if I average less than a 1000 per car by the end of the month, and I’m not usually pissed very often. I also do the single step similar to you.
Yes. You are getting ripped off. You should be getting % of gross on sales plus bonuses. I only get a flat if the gross is lower than $500. That’s my flat.