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I am sure this has been asked before…but outside of the Tech/SaaS world what other industries still do big commish numbies? Any sleeper industries out there

I work in transport tech and was approached by a company to interview for as Sales Manager role selling cranes.

Got me thinking about other industries that have large ticket sales...but do they have the commission to match? The likes of 

- Pharma 
- Military 
- Aviation etc etc 

Apologies if this has been asked a million times before! 
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Big Shot
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Enterprise Account Executive
Commercial real estate, few colleagues are near or above 7 figures annually.
MCP
Valued Contributor
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Sales Director
Even now with WFH?
Beans
Big Shot
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Enterprise Account Executive
My guys are industrial and REIT’s - coworking spaces are super hot and manufacturing coming home to NA is a hot market too.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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Finance or real estate. 
LordOfWar
Tycoon
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Blow it up
Military and aerospace can make some good money, direct or B2B sales. It's a very tough market to break into.
TheOverTaker
Politicker
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Senior Account Executive
media. if you can build a big book of business 
Diablo
Politicker
0
Sr. AE
Marketing agencies 
cornerback16
Valued Contributor
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Strategic Accounts
In the case of Media and Marketing would that be more the owners as opposed to the AEs/Sales staff?
eljefe
Executive
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Senior Account Executive
I think they mean Media Sales or Ad Sales or Ad Tech Sales. This is the industry I work in, you can make really good money if you put the work in. I'm talkin $150-$200K base + commission as a Senior AE. 
FinanceEngineer
Politicker
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Sr Director, sales and partnerships
It’s highly specialized by sector and stage, but business brokerage/capital raising. I’ve seen fees commission of anywhere from 1% to 15% on just on $100M. Equipment finance and factoring are also huge percentages.
Justatitle
Big Shot
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Account Executive
High end real estate, Credit card processing, knew a guy who's brother worked for Range Rover and said he made 250k a year. no reason not to believe him 
cornerback16
Valued Contributor
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Strategic Accounts
Credit card processing? Any examples
Justatitle
Big Shot
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Account Executive
You can become a processor on a network like TSYS or first data sell the credit card processing machines and then get enough locations and you make a bunch off of merchants processing.
NotCreativeEnough
Big Shot
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Professional Day Ruiner
Real estate pays huge if you’re good at it. Have a friend who’s an agent that clears 300k a year working 20-30 hours a week and basically only works past customers and referrals at this point. Apparently solar pays really well too. Almost took a solar role at one point in life but the hours were nuts
Upper_Class_SaaS
Politicker
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Account Executive
Real Estate forsure... at least if you are a good agent 
TheLaughingWolf
WR Officer
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Business Development Manager
My buddy works for a hydro vac organization. A pretty big one too. They are just switching his pay from base + % of net revenue to 0 base and 2% of gross revenue. 

Not entirely sure of the exact nitty gritty details, but that 2% works out to be around $300k per year.

There are tons of industries out there that pay huge, you just have to know where to look and have an in. 
Boutdamtime
Politicker
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Client Executive
Healthcare tech
cornerback16
Valued Contributor
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Strategic Accounts
Any examples of companies out of interest
Boutdamtime
Politicker
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Client Executive
Too many to list but the hardware software combo space is pretty good. Networking, AI software, anything in the capital space you can clear 300k-more.
justatopproducer
Politicker
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VP OF SALES -US
High end luxury goods/retail. Once finished in the top 1% only working the first 5 months of the fiscal year.
noob
Contributor
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Enterprise Account Executive
Not sure if it’s relevant globally, but my mates in banking - specifically, mortgage broking - are making close to the same OTE with a significantly higher base
Jewcan_Sam81
Politicker
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Account Executive
Medical device sales is just pure $$$$, but getting into the field is rough stuff
cornerback16
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Strategic Accounts
Would you need to be a former practitioner?
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