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Originally Posted by Untamed

What kind of average pay do sales people at dealerships make? I know its a big difference between, say, Saturn and Mercedes. But can people make a career out of it, with familes, a mortgage, car payments and such? Or is it more of a young persons game with smaller income for those just starting out?

This desk job is killing me, and I dont have enough mechanical experience to work in a shop.

eh... bro, people can make decent money as a carsalesperson... but it's definitely changed since the invention of the Internet.

The guys who I saw at the dealership that I used to work at that were making barely enough money to support a family, were guys that had built up a customer base over a period of years. It's like any other sales gig- the new guy usually gets the crappy ups.

It's not really too too complicated, it's just much more work than people would like you to believe. If I were you, i'd try it out parttime to start out to see if you liked it. And promise me one thing.. do NOT work at a GM dealership... all of the dealerships that I dealt with in the year and a half that I worked as the Internet Manager at one, were really really cutting down sales staff and their salary, and as a result, the morale was pathetic.