As both our integrator salary and manufacturer salary results show, sales people make significantly more than their engineering counterparts - on average, 35%.

Is that fair? Is that how it should be?

Poll:

Case For

The typical case for sales people making more is that they are the ones who bring in revenue, not engineers and that they have to face rejection from customers and risk of being fired if they don't make their numbers.

Case Against

The typical case against sales people making more is that they make mistakes / cause problems that engineers need to clean up / fix and that sales increased pay is due to their aggressiveness in getting paid rather than value delivered.

What do you think?

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