Commission-Only Sales Jobs

Would you be willing to take a commission-only sales position in the fashion industry? We asked that very question to over 100 fashion industry sales professionals and got the following results.

As you can see in this first chart, roughly 92% of fashion industry sales professionals would NOT consider a position that relies on commission for 100% of their compensation; only 7% would…

Of those who would NOT consider a position that relies on commission for 100% of their compensation, these are the reasons why…

Digging deeper into the numbers, in the following chart, we show all of the fashion industry sales professionals who would NOT take a straight commission sales position and compare them to those who would BUT may have some conditions on the company, brand or compensation…

Going further, about 24% of the respondents told us that they would consider a straight commission sales position BUT with a few conditions (paid travel, expense reimbursement, established brand, etc…)…

Finally, the different, major conditions are detailed here…