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The difficulty in discussing pay is the variance in cost of living issues and also the currency (CAN vs US). I'm going to say the following from memory but I'll look in the ALCA publication later when I have a chance.
You can set up base salary and commissions in various ways and yours looks pretty good. I would agree that the base looks low but I don't pay a mortgage in Salisbury, so what do I know?
As I recall, ALCA suggests a total compensation of 11 - 15% of gross sales.
The other thing to look at is gross profit. Anyone can sell lots of 'cheap' work that you lose money on. If you pay commission after losing money, you won't be happy for long. I recommend a condition of profitability be included, within reason. Some things can go badly that are not the designer's fault, but diligence is expected. No one is perfect but some try to 'hide' cost elements to arrive at a low bid number. If these people have not been responsible for putting together $$ numbers, some training should be underway to help them do an accurate job of putting together estimates/bids. Oh, and buy them each a calculator.
Even the best estimating program will fail if they put in the wrong numbers.
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