That is exactly how the pay structure at guitar center circa 2010 worked. All your follow-up questions are irrelevant, but yes, I was an adult, had my own place, and worked a second job, with a third stream of income being my band (that was the main draw to working at GC, and why most worked there. The benefit was the store discounts that make gigging and recording musicians job a lot easier/more affordable)
What does $1200 a month not being enough have to do with anything? 10 years ago, GC paid min. wage (around $7.50/hr) + commission. Your base-pay for the month ($7.50/hr x # of hours) was subtracted from your total commission earned, to make up your commission check -- exactly as I described. So, employees were essentially paid 100% in commission, unless your commission total didn't surpass your monthly earnings. It was a way to incentivize you to sell a lot, while also guaranteeing you at leasts made minimum wage if you weren't hitting numbers.
So again, to make myself perfectly clear: GC pay structure, when I was there, was this: Min wage + commission. Commission paid out subtracted your base pay to determine your monthly commission check. So, if you made $1000 in a month for base pay, and commission was $1500, you'd get an extra $500 in commission at the end of the month (after they subtracted your hourly pay that amounted to $1000 from the $1500 in commission). If you made $1000 in base pay, but only had $900 in commission at the end of the month, you got $0 in commission (because $1000 base pay subtracted from $900 in commission is below 0), but you obviously kept your minimum wage pay/bi-weekly check
I don't understand why you think I'm making this up, or why you'd assert "that's not how commission works," given that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different pay-structures for commission-based work. This was one of them, and the one GC used when I worked there, and whether or not it was enough to live on a month is irrelevant and a strange reason to assert that "that's not how commission works." No definition of commission involves "a pay-structure that provides one enough money to live comfortably," and plenty of jobs don't pay an amount in which one can live comfortably on their own. Commission's purpose isn't to provide a great-paying job; it's a way to incentivize salesmen to sell more (which, in turn, may or may not lead to said salesman making enough money)
That is exactly how the pay structure at guitar center circa 2010 worked. All your follow-up questions are irrelevant, but yes, I was an adult, had my own place, and worked a second job, with a third stream of income being my band (that was the main draw to working at GC, and why most worked there. The benefit was the store discounts that make gigging and recording musicians job a lot easier/more affordable)
What does $1200 a month not being enough have to do with anything? 10 years ago, GC paid min. wage (around $7.50/hr) + commission. Your base-pay for the month ($7.50/hr x # of hours) was subtracted from your total commission earned, to make up your commission check -- exactly as I described. So, employees were essentially paid 100% in commission, unless your commission total didn't surpass your monthly earnings. It was a way to incentivize you to sell a lot, while also guaranteeing you at leasts made minimum wage if you weren't hitting numbers.
So again, to make myself perfectly clear: GC pay structure, when I was there, was this: Min wage + commission. Commission paid out subtracted your base pay to determine your monthly commission check. So, if you made $1000 in a month for base pay, and commission was $1500, you'd get an extra $500 in commission at the end of the month (after they subtracted your hourly pay that amounted to $1000 from the $1500 in commission). If you made $1000 in base pay, but only had $900 in commission at the end of the month, you got $0 in commission (because $1000 base pay subtracted from $900 in commission is below 0), but you obviously kept your minimum wage pay/bi-weekly check
I don't understand why you think I'm making this up, or why you'd assert "that's not how commission works," given that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different pay-structures for commission-based work. This was one of them, and the one GC used when I worked there, and whether or not it was enough to live on a month is irrelevant.
That is exactly how the pay structure at guitar center circa 2010 worked. All your follow-up questions are irrelevant, but yes, I was an adult, had my own place, and worked a second job, with a third stream of income being my band (that was the main draw to working at GC, and why most worked there. The benefit was the store discounts that make gigging and recording musicians job a lot easier/more affordable)
What does $1200 a month not being enough have to do with anything? 10 years ago, GC paid min. wage (around $7.50/hr) + commission. Your base-pay for the month ($7.50/hr x # of hours) was subtracted from your total commission earned, to make up your commission check -- exactly as I described. So, employees were essentially paid 100% in commission, unless your commission total didn't surpass your monthly earnings. It was a way to incentivize you to sell a lot, while also guaranteeing you at leasts made minimum wage if you weren't hitting numbers.
So again, to make myself perfectly clear: GC pay structure, when I was there, was this: Min wage + commission. Commission paid out subtracted your base pay to determine your monthly commission check. So, if you made $1000 in a month for base pay, and commission was $1500, you'd get an extra $500 in commission at the end of the month. If you made $1000 in base pay, but only had $900 in commission at the end of the month, you got $0 in commission, but kept your minimum wage pay.
I don't understand why you think I'm making this up, or why you'd assert "that's not how commission works," given that there are dozens, if not hundreds, of different pay-structures for commission-based work. This was one of them, and the one GC used when I worked there, and whether or not it was enough to live on a month is irrelevant.