I started as an SAE in January after being promoted from an AM role. They gave it to me as my only option, as they wanted to move the upsell function to CS.
3 other SAEs started at the same time as me. We have good bases (85-100k, I'm at 90) and they offered a quick start bonus program because we sell public sector so long cycles.
I was at a conference with another SAE last week and found out her bonus structure and mine are very different, and I've now confirmed all 3 of theirs are the same - I'm the odd man out.
One of the SAEs asked about the bonus during a team meeting and my VP swept it under the rug saying it was more of a 1-1 convo.
The structure is the same - 4 time-bound metrics. Mine are $2500 each, my colleagues are $5000. One of theirs was just to conplete the 90 day on-boarding. They had 6 months to source 5 leads themselves (we have a rigid validation process), I had 3 months to source 5 and 5 months to source 10.
I've spoken with 2 of the other SAEs and they both agree this is brutal management. Any tips for how to approach this with my VP? My first planned question is "what would you do in my situation if you found out your colleagues were getting compensated double for half the work?"
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