See what you earn on commission. Enter the sale amount, your rate, and the number of sales — and get your commission per sale and total.
Straight-rate commission. Tiered, split, or draw-against-commission plans work differently — this covers a flat percentage.
Commission is your rate times the sale amount. Across many sales it adds up fast — which is why tracking your pipeline (what's likely to close and when) matters as much as the rate itself.
Two multiplications: commission per sale = sale amount × commission rate, and total commission = commission per sale × number of sales. The arithmetic is trivial. What trips people up is that the sale amount in a commission agreement is rarely the number they had in mind.
The calculator opens with an average sale of $10,000, a rate of 5%, and 10 sales. Per sale: $10,000 × 0.05 = $500. Across ten sales: $500 × 10 = $5,000.
Rate matters more than volume at these numbers. Drop to 3% and the same ten sales pay $3,000; move to 10% and they pay $10,000. Negotiating two percentage points on rate is worth more here than closing three extra deals, which is worth knowing before you spend your energy on the wrong one.
Most importantly, it ignores what the percentage applies to. Commission on gross sale value, on revenue after discounts, and on gross profit are three different agreements that can differ by half or more. A 10% commission on gross profit is often less money than 5% on the sale price. If your agreement does not spell out the base in a sentence you could read aloud to a stranger, that is the thing to fix before you optimise the rate.
It also ignores tiers, which most real plans use. Take a plan paying 3% up to five sales and 8% after: five sales at 3% on $10,000 is $1,500, the next five at 8% is $4,000, for $5,500 total — more than the flat 5% figure, and reached by a completely different path. If your plan is tiered, run this calculator once per tier rather than once for the whole period.
And it ignores clawbacks. Many agreements reverse commission if the customer refunds or churns within a defined window. Commission on a sale that has not survived that window is not yet money.
An employee sees commission after withholding. A self-employed contractor does not. On the $5,000 above, self-employment tax at 15.3% is roughly $765, leaving about $4,235 before any income tax is considered at all. Setting aside a meaningful share of every commission payment as it arrives is the difference between a good year and an unpleasant April. Rates and thresholds change and vary by situation — confirm yours rather than relying on a rule of thumb.
Commission rates vary so widely by industry that a single benchmark would be misleading: low-single-digit percentages are normal where sale values are large and the product largely sells itself, while much higher rates are normal where the salesperson generates the demand. The more useful test is not the rate but the arithmetic: multiply your realistic sales volume by the commission per sale, and ask whether the result is a living. A generous-sounding rate on a deal you can close twice a year is not.
Using your best sale as the average sale is the most common, and it inflates every projection built on it — use the median of your recent closes instead. Forgetting that "number of sales" means closed sales is the second; a pipeline is not a paycheck. Third is not tracking commission owed against commission received, which is how payments quietly go missing for a quarter before anyone notices.
The moment you have more than a handful of deals, the question stops being "what is this one worth" and becomes "which of these did I get paid for, and which are past due." That needs a record per deal — stage, value, rate, expected commission, invoiced, paid — not a calculator. Our Client Tracker & CRM Spreadsheet keeps deals and the commission owed on them in one place, so chasing an unpaid commission is a filter rather than an archaeology project.
Multiply the sale amount by your commission rate. For total earnings, multiply by the number of sales. This calculator does both.
Multiply each pipeline deal's value by your rate and its chance of closing, then add them up. A CRM keeps that number live as deals move.
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