I Want to Work for Verizon!!
Could anyone that works for Verizon tell me a little bit about what it is like? What kind of quotas you have, amount of customers in the corporate stores, pay, and how the company is in general to their employees? I currently work for another carrier and would like to find out if the grass is greener on the other side. Thanks in advance for your responses!
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Verizon has the best pay of all direct companies for retail rep position. The oppurtunity is also there to make huge commission. However its very fast paced, and you will find that even though the store is packed shoulder to shoulder alot of times, the amount of actual commissionable sales is probably only coming from about 1/4 of those people. It's also very performance driven. When I worked for Cingular if you had a bad month or two no probs, get em next time right? At VzW a couple bad months could mean the unemployment line. Anyways every place has pros and cons but if Wireless is going to be your career you can't go wrong with Verizon.
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Thanks for the info, I work for Cingular now and make decent money, but I was told some of the top retail sales people at Verizon make $80,000+ a year, is this true? What is the standard base rate and what kind of at risk per month does Verizon have? Any info would help, thank you.
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Base pay in WA state is 11-13 an hour, full benefits, 401k, VARs and all that good stuff. There have been reps that have made 6 figures in a year though the average rep I would place in the 40-50k range. Target commision here in WA state is 1300 per month, so target yearly salaries range in between 36k-40k depending on base pay. Your quota grid generally looks something like 40-60 gross activations, 25-50 contract renewals, an accessory ration of 2.5-3 acc units per phone sold, 30% of total activations being on $59+ pricing plans and 110% data attachment to new activations. Slip up on any of these two months in a row and you might want to start looking for either a non sales position with VzW or look for a new company entirely. It sounds tou...
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How does one get 110% data attachment of new activation? Is it adding more than one data feature per new activation?
Are these quotas to be leading in sales? There are inevitably going to be customers who don't want an accesory or a data package; so does one fail if they don't sell 2.5-3 accesories/phone (how do you sell 1/2 an accesory?) or a couple of data packages?
Are these quotas to be leading in sales? There are inevitably going to be customers who don't want an accesory or a data package; so does one fail if they don't sell 2.5-3 accesories/phone (how do you sell 1/2 an accesory?) or a couple of data packages?
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Unfortunately for them, yes, it does mean you have to average BETTER than one data feature per activation. These numbers are actually a little more lenient than what my Verizon rep (who used to work direct sales) told me little while back. He had to sell 125% data and I think it was actually 3.5 accessories per phone. I wouldn't mind working for VZW, but I don't know about those numbers...
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JDigital said:
Unfortunately for them, yes, it does mean you have to average BETTER than one data feature per activation. These numbers are actually a little more lenient than what my Verizon rep (who used to work direct sales) told me little while back. He had to sell 125% data and I think it was actually 3.5 accessories per phone. I wouldn't mind working for VZW, but I don't know about those numbers...
yes, our quotas get higher every year, then once the majority of sales reps hit the quotas, it raises again. the reason were able to get over 100% data sales, is by selling multiple data features per handset, along with selling data features on customers upgrading. we do get paid very well (depending on...
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Thanks for the info that was exactly what i was looking for and that really helps, is the turnover rate really high with verizon, it seems like it would be.
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I have been a Vzw sales rep for a year and a half, in 2004 i did 107% of my quota and pretty much it all of my required metrics, the commission is pretty good especially when you surpass quota and hit accelerators. My best month i sold 170% to my quota which was about 250 phones in one month, my TAKE HOME pay that month was about 3600.
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Last month I sold 279 lines of service. 170% of quota. Commission was $4356.00
This month I am 160% to quota with 6 selling days left. I am looking to sell another 100+ lines of service hitting a 2.2 multiplier, making my commission over $6000.00
This month I am 160% to quota with 6 selling days left. I am looking to sell another 100+ lines of service hitting a 2.2 multiplier, making my commission over $6000.00
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vzwrep81 said:
I have been a Vzw sales rep for a year and a half, in 2004 i did 107% of my quota and pretty much it all of my required metrics, the commission is pretty good especially when you surpass quota and hit accelerators. My best month i sold 170% to my quota which was about 250 phones in one month, my TAKE HOME pay that month was about 3600.
Are you sure you sold 250 phones and only took home 3600? Where I work, I have sold only 54 phones for the month and took home 2100. So does that mean authorized agents make more then direct stores and corporate stores?
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3600 would have been his commission check. Base pay would be another 1600 or so a month. And they tax the **** out of that commission. SO really he made about 4500. The other things that would influence that are how many were tier4 acts, how many accessorries, and what data plans he sold. Aside from the pay he gets benefits that are awesome. Now if he sold 250 actuall new phones that check would be alot higher.. 250 im assuming only about 150- 170 are new act if that.
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but I sold 54 phones, only 54 new activations and my commission not my hourly was 2100 take home pay. We had a girl here who sold 127 phones and she took home 6 grand, before taxes she made 10 grand so to sell 250 to me and make only 3 grand seems like we make hella good money over here. Oh yeah and as far as benefits, we get some great benefits on the indirect side as wel. We should, I am working for a comapny that is Alltel's biggest seller on the east coast and they are looking into it to see if that applys for the whole United States. So I guess when we sell Alltel we get paid pretty much more then a corporate employee would get paid. You may think im lying but its true, Alltel loves our company so much that they flew our owner out over ...
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right now i only have about 6 or 7 months of cell phone experience on my hands but i want to work my way up to either working verizon corporate or being a cell phone tech for verizon. i know that verizon's tech work for another compan called selectron. i was wondering what the requirements are for working as a ech and how to get that job and any other information on it would be helpful. thanks!
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