AchillesOfAdTech

Account Director

Valued Contributor

Fire Starter

Contributor

ITT: We post our total comp, years of relevant experience, sub-vertical, and highest career W2

I'll go first:

Total Comp: ~$180K (OTE)
YOE: 5 years
Sub-Vertical: Ad-Tech
Highest Career W2: ~$200k ('22)

The point of this exercise is not necessarily to "boast" but rather to share pay transparency and highlight trends, averages, outliers, etc.

💰 Compensation

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braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Total Comp: $150k/$150k (OTE)
YOE: 15 years
Sub-Vertical: Cybersecurity
Highest Career W2: ~$650k (2020)

sora

Opinionated

RevOps Automation Consultant

You are goals sir

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Total Comp: Year ain't done yet
YOE: X + 5 years
First year W2 ≥ $200k: ('00)
First auto purchase ≥ $100k: ('00)
First auto repossession: ('01)

I don't wanna boast.

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

First auto repo, now theres a stat

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

So many ways to go with this one.

Foreclosures, divorces, bankruptcies. # of people with DNA tests claiming to be offspring.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Old closer seems like you got some good stories

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Not that I’d tell publicly anyway.

# of Eastern European webcam chicks dated-
# of Eastern European webcam chicks married-

Правда? Просто невозможно!

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Truth? Its impossible

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Nice!!!! I’ll never tell

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

Молодец

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Dualingo baby

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Thank you- and welcome to Bravado по русский

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

Well I'm relatively fluent in Russian funnily enough

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

I have yet to meet a fluent Russian speaker that didn’t spend a lot of time there, or near by. I’m not fluent but can navigate most conversations. How did you learn?

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

I love languages and I'm even more impressed by you. Very cool. My mom's Russian so айв гат водка ин май блад, энд ай данс виз браун бэарз

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

Ny konechmo. Ху дузнт?! 😂

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

🤣

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

Damn this man is flexing on me and my beater car hahaha

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

At least you still have yours 👍

AchillesOfAdTech

Valued Contributor

Account Director

Dang. $200k in 2000 was big time money. Still is. But this is more or less "market rate" for AEs in 2023. Maybe some get up to $250-300k but still.

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

And I was just young and stupid enough to think it would never run out. #Lessons

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

^^^ critical lesson right there.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Total comp: $150k/$150k (OTE)
YOE: 25+
Sub-Vertical: Marketing Operations
Highest W2: $547k

Space_Ghost20

Valued Contributor

Account Executive

Total comp: OTE is $75k, but if I'm still with this company, I'll probably be at ~$65k (I had two months of training plus I've struggled to hit monthly quota last 4 months).

YOE: 8 years in sales in total. 2.5 or so in software sales specifically.

Sub vertical: fintech

Highest career W2: $108k (2022). Different company, was laid off in November.

js2458

Politicker

Enterprise SDR

Total Comp: 60k/40k (OTE)
YOE: 2
Sub vertical: conference sales
Highest career W2: 60k

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

Highest career W2: $-2 (daddy government came along)

AchillesOfAdTech

Valued Contributor

Account Director

I don't understand. The most amount you've ever made was negative two bucks? So in all other years you made less than that.

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

My sarcasm runs deep, I W2'd 230K that was my peak

AchillesOfAdTech

Valued Contributor

Account Director

nice!

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Comp 90k Base/90 Variable
5 years of experience
Industry: SAAS

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

TC: 694,200
YOE: 8008
Sub-Vertical: Your Mom
Highest Career W2: Higher than the ISS

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

That's the kind of response we expect.

BTQ

Politicker

Account Manager

The comment section makes me feel poor

AchillesOfAdTech

Valued Contributor

Account Director

lol

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

Total comp: 145k OTE
YOE: 4 years
Sub vertical: operations saas
Highest w2 so far: 91k but on track for 6 figs this year

DataCorrupter

Politicker

Account Executive

Total comp: $150k/$150k (OTE)
YOE: 5 years
Sub-Vertical: Analytics
Highest W2: $275k

Newbie_

Catalyst

BDR Ed Tech

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s gonna be looking for a new job after seeing the figures here. Haha

AchillesOfAdTech

Valued Contributor

Account Director

haha! that's the point of this exercise :)

Newbie_

Catalyst

BDR Ed Tech

Honestly it is very helpful to see the potential out there. Thank you for starting this.

JustGonnaSendIt

Politicker

Burn Towns, Get Money

Total Comp: $242K (OTE)
YOE: 12 years
Sub-Vertical: Cybersecurity
Highest Career W2: $286k ('22)

But the real question is, highest AGI - Especially for anyone that's made a startup exit.

sora

Opinionated

RevOps Automation Consultant

Total comp: $80k/$40k
YOE: 2 years
Sub - vertical: saas/e-commerce
Highest career w2: $152k

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ITT: We post our total comp, years of relevant experience, sub-vertical, and highest career W2

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