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Do real estate agents earn a base salary?

I know it's a commission based position. Just wondering, do real estate agents earn a base pay at first?

Public Comments

1. No, it is make a sale or starve. The commission is all the agent gets.
2. There are some companies that now pay a base salary, but there are very few of them, and they don't attract the top sales people. On top of which, if there is a base salary, it would come out of the commission that the brokerage earns, which would mean the commissions would be a lot smaller on a per sale basis. The best way of making such a scheme work is for the agencies to charge the sellers and buyers a fee directly, regardless of whether the property sells or not. Most sellers want to pay for results, so there is a lot of resistance to this kind of approach. And yes, I've looked into starting an agency that works exactly that way.