Not always. There are sales jobs that are 100% commission, but I’m the same way they do have to ensure you are paid a minimum. The person making the exchange is arbitrary.
Sure if you are only looking at the analogy as the person paying and not how the individual for their income which was the intent and the person paying secondary. Merely called it out so it was not misleading or lacking that bit. Both sales people AND servers have much of their pay based on sale of something. So yes, it’s arbitrary.
Edit: I’ll add one extra bit of context here neither the sales person nor the wait staff know how much they will make that week other than the minimum for the hours worked assuming they made zero commissions or sales. Every single dollar beyond that is not guaranteed. In the eyes of the IRS or other gov orgs dealing with wages, it only matters that they are compensated for their time by the end of the pay period. This is why it is arbitrary. That minimum could be minimum wage or your agreed base pay in the contract if there is one.
Ok, If I squint really hard I can kind of see where you were trying to say that. Let’s just consider my comments to be a clarification rather than a correction.
I’m good with that. It just wasnt my main point so yeah was a little undersold in the message, but it was included because is important for context. Thanks for bringing it to light.
Not always. There are sales jobs that are 100% commission, but I’m the same way they do have to ensure you are paid a minimum. The person making the exchange is arbitrary.
No, it’s really not arbitrary. That’s how commission works, it’s paid to you by your employer, not the customer directly.
It’s not a good analogy.
Sure if you are only looking at the analogy as the person paying and not how the individual for their income which was the intent and the person paying secondary. Merely called it out so it was not misleading or lacking that bit. Both sales people AND servers have much of their pay based on sale of something. So yes, it’s arbitrary.
Edit: I’ll add one extra bit of context here neither the sales person nor the wait staff know how much they will make that week other than the minimum for the hours worked assuming they made zero commissions or sales. Every single dollar beyond that is not guaranteed. In the eyes of the IRS or other gov orgs dealing with wages, it only matters that they are compensated for their time by the end of the pay period. This is why it is arbitrary. That minimum could be minimum wage or your agreed base pay in the contract if there is one.
No sales person was ever paid directly by the business’ customer. It’s always paid from the company’s account.
Yes and this was stated in my initial message. Thanks for reiterating?
Ok, If I squint really hard I can kind of see where you were trying to say that. Let’s just consider my comments to be a clarification rather than a correction.
I’m good with that. It just wasnt my main point so yeah was a little undersold in the message, but it was included because is important for context. Thanks for bringing it to light.