What's the pay at Circuit City like ?

[deftron]

I know the salespeople work on commision ...

So after factoring that in, along with base pay, what's the average take home per hour ?

 

[Deeko]

i work at a slow store. average is 15-20 for me. aka GOOD. at least for someone my age

 

[Deeko]

oh. there is no base pay. at all.

 

[deftron]

NO base pay at all ?

Damn.


But you seriously get like 15 to 20 per hour ?


Thery're building a new store here next to Best Buy, that looks like it's going
to be very successful... one of the new larger type stores.

I make $10 an hour now, but I mostly watch TV at work



Also,
How's the benefits at CC ?

What do you think is the best department to get into.. TV's ?

 

[Luden]

I should reapply, didnt know the pay...

 

[Deeko]

Hmm...probably a Horizon 1 store, if it's Horizon 2 that's awesome, but not likely.

Here is how pay works. You get a commision. Say you make $800 in a two week period. Now, say you were making 7.50 an hour. If that is higher, say $900, you will get the $900. However, you then start the next period -$100. So you don't really get the base rate.

You have to work. You won't make money if you lay back. If you are in a bigger, busier store, you can sit back and not work, and there are enough other workers that you get away with it, but then you don't make money. At a smaller store, like the one I'm at, there are usually only two or three guys on in a dept, so you have to work unless you flat out ignore customers.

Where should you work? Well, income ends up about the same between the departments. Audio/Video has higher commission percentages, but generally sell less volume, and less service (the big payer). Computers get low percentages, but high volumes, and a much higher service percentage. It all evens out income wise. I worked in computers myself.

I didn't get benifits because I'm 18 so I didn't want them. But they offer a full suite of health/dental/retirement and other good stuff.

 

[Deeko]

oh, btw, I'm a pretty good salesman. I worked cruddy hours (mornings in the week, its basically a toy store for men, who are generally working then), but still was usually in the upper ranges of incomes at my store. So I'm not garunteeing you what I made. BTW christmas is coming. VERY VERY VERY good.

 

[Scarpozzi]

It's a good commissioned sales job. Great if you don't have much sales experience, know a lot about consumer electronics, and are trying to jump in the field. I've got a few friends that work at the local store and they've said they make pretty solid money... I'm not sure how high it is, but $10-12 an hour would be what I would expect. If you're in a big city....maybe you'll do better.

 

[mithrandir2001]

Geez, at BB they are all zero-commissioned and offer zero assistance/service and at CC they are fully-commissioned and they hound you to death.

Happy middle?

 

[Deeko]

I don't hound.

 

[gwlam12]

Originally posted by: mithrandir2001
Geez, at BB they are all zero-commissioned and offer zero assistance/service and at CC they are fully-commissioned and they hound you to death.

Happy middle?

no one at CC hounds me. they just go in their group and talk to each other. some of them even avoid me.

 

[Stark]

BTW christmas is coming. VERY VERY VERY good.

Spoken like a true ACE salesman. 😉 Christmas really is BANK if you work in the consumer electronics section. You have to work your @ss off, however. Fortunately, there's not much you need to know to sell phones/boomboxes/walkmen.

Hey Deeko, do you guys ever call ESP "cheese" (as in "would you like cheese on that")? "Slamming the cheese" was the fun part back when I worked at CC.

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: mithrandir2001
Geez, at BB they are all zero-commissioned and offer zero assistance/service and at CC they are fully-commissioned and they hound you to death.

Happy middle?

Order online. 😀

 

[Harvey]

In addition to the pay, I always thought they should furnish all employees with lead Jockey shorts. It wouldn't suprise me if the radiation field in front of that wall of working TV sets exceeded OSHA limits. :Q

 

[Deeko]

Spoken like a true ACE salesman. Christmas really is BANK if you work in the consumer electronics section. You have to work your @ss off, however. Fortunately, there's not much you need to know to sell phones/boomboxes/walkmen.

Hey Deeko, do you guys ever call ESP "cheese" (as in "would you like cheese on that")? "Slamming the cheese" was the fun part back when I worked at CC.

Heh...last year I was on commission in "The Zone" (my store is old and set up weird, the zone has PST and imaging), only person in the store in that position, all the other guys in the zone were SS's not SC's. This year I'll be in computers. Still good.

Some of the guys call it cheese, p, service, csp, years, several other nicknames. I usually just call it service.

 

[gplanet]

Just don't consider working at Best Buy...trust me. You start off at $7/hour, no commission, yet they get on your case when you only sell two $200 "service plans" (Warranties) in 4 hours....it's pretty pathetic, cause I could work in computers for 8 hours on a saturday and know that the store has profitted $2000 from me, and take home $50 and still get hounded for just doing "OK"

 

[Deeko]

As much as I hate BB, they did NOT profit $2000 off you. At CC, margin on computers is often under $50. With about half of that going to the salesman. You would need to sell ALOT of computers for them to profit 2 grand from you in a single day.

 

[gplanet]

Deeko,

i was referring to the "Service plans" that cost $200 on a computer and is pretty much 100% profit

 

[MaxDSP]

Deeko, isn't the technical term for the pay called "draw pay"?

We had something similar at the sears I worked at, but the sales were so horrendously low that everyone was making like 6.50/hr. If they got a lot of commision (which was unlikely at our store) the next week, sears would subtract the previous week's pay from it. either way, it added up to 6 an hour or so.

good thing I was only there for less than 2 months.