How Do PEO Salespeople Get Paid?

The average PEO salesperson makes $250,000 -$300,000 or more, and their annual quota is about 300 to 400 new employees a year. Not 300 new companies. (average employer size is 30 to 35 employees per company).

So, you can do the math how much the PEO must add on to use their expensive direct sales force. SBE479 – ThePEOPeople bypasses the local salesperson and saves you all that money.

ALSO, ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY! Insurance brokers make a lot on your benefits programs, 3-5% of your total premiums every month. Sometimes they try to get involved in PEOs, but they make about 75% fewer commissions on PEOs as they do with regular benefits programs. What would you do if you were them? Plus, oddly enough they don’t really understand the breadth of what PEOs can do.

ThePEOPeople.com do not charge a fee, but we do get paid by the PEOs on the backend. Our fees are low but we do a lot of volumes. Your costs including our fees are much less than rates that you will get on directly – their direct sales forces are very expensive and are a bigger low-cost channel and we pass that on to you.

Industry Secret: The complex nature of this means many PEO sales reps simply don’t understand the life of an HR manager or CFO and really feel your pain. they are there for one thing – make a sale and move on.

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