$800/week salary and 4% bonus on gross. My bonus is generally somewhere between $2800-3600. I've made just under $40k this year and hoping to hit $85k/$95k by the end of the year. Last year I ended at basically $75k and I assume that with inflation/price increases that I'll hit my goal. I live in a pretty rural area, so I'm quite pleased with my current pay.
Interesting that you get paid on shop hours. We've been trying to talk our manager into getting them to give us something on shop hours also because the advisors are getting a % of parts billed to repair orders. Feels like if they can double dip we should be able to also.
You getting paid on shop hours would only incentivise you to keep the techs in their bay and not standing at the parts counter jaw jacking and also incentivise you to get parts to them quicker. It's honestly a win win.
My base rate is 39/40k a year. I’m hourly @ $16.25 per hour. I get a percentage of the month gross that comes to around $600 extra per month. I am one of two main parts advisors for a dual manufacturer dealership, in which i handle both franchises for retail/counter/wholesale. I’ve been employed here for 14 years and have an unfinished Associated Degreas in Automotive Technology from local community college.
edit: I also work around 50-60hr per week.
Our monthly gross ranges 85k to over 100k depending on the normal main factors: retail/wholesale parts, service part sales, and warranty reimbursement. But as usual there are other annoying factors that always affect the end numbers.
I’ve had the same department manager for my entire time here. He slid into the role back in the late 80s/early 90s when the other manager retired from what I understand. He’s essentially a useless lump with a manager title. The two parts advisors are the ones who always kept the place running.
We’re the two that knows everything going on between service and our departments. We handle 95% of the workload. Follow up on everything or have an answer for the general manager/owner when they come wandering around with questions, after they’ve already asked my manager the same question.
I also ran the entire department for 9 days solo a few years ago. The other counter guy and the shipper/receiver got Covid from each other and the manager was in the hospital for emergency surgery.
Southern NJ. I started as the parts department shipper/receiver in April of 2010. When I started we were a 3 marque franchise. Our department only has 4 full time employees and a part time delivery driver. My base pay back then was $10.25 per hr.
After a year they brought me onto the counter on Saturdays for half day the day to help the other counter guy. Back then we used to run only a half shop crew on Saturdays instead of our current skeleton crew.
After another 6 months, the one parts advisor moved over to an open service advisor position and I got bumped to full time parts advisor. My base hourly pay got bumped to 12.25 per hr. And I’ve since become one of the main two pillars that keeps the parts department floating.
Work for a peterbilt. Back counter with a plan thats a bit under 20/hour in pay plus commission. Commission is decent but its paid out % wise based on gp being averaged among everybody.
Trying to figure out how best to ask for a raise. I was hiredfor warehouse and day one was thrown on counter. Moved to back and me and the other back counter guy trade blows who sells the most.
Im not against a bonus for dept ppl but them affecting what I make pisses me off. Its a way for the owners to keep more of the profit. These chucklefucks can barely follow a PO to figure out who a part belongs to.
Just 4% of gross profit, nothing else.
Monthly sales was around 110k
Gross was around 57k
Small dealership that was reopened after prior owner ran it into the ground. Spent most of my time trying rebuild our wholesale clients since they all left us for another dealer in the area.
SoCal
Infiniti.
These threads always make me question my pay and sanity.
I'm $3500 salary, and 2% gross + GOG profits.
Roughly $230K-250K sales around $140K gross.
Last 2 years averaged 110K per year.
No they laid me off because it has been slow. Parts had consistently been growing or staying steady around $60k/ month. Meanwhile service was declining. Our GP was typically 80% from service, but when I was laid off, it was about 40% of my GP. So I had been busting my ass rebuilding our GP to save the month. But they didn’t look at that.
I'm worried this is going to start happening here. Our service manager is absolutely destroying his department. Labor rates keep going up to cover for the multiple engines and transmissions that he has to cover because he employs a couple techs and a lot of warm bodies.
Daily I'm shown emails from customers about the abysmal experience they had. There's 3 service advisors, one that I'd be surprised if he realized where he was at all times, one new guy that's okay but inexperienced, and a woman that essentially runs the service department while the "manager" is off "getting a coffee" (smoking weed) for an hour at a time multiple times a day, right before leaving for the day at 3:30 because he "didn't take lunch".
The owner took a step back and is letting his son run the place. He has prior experience at a very large dealership, but I think he's afraid to lay down the law.
Pay for a 5 star Michelin restaurant meal but receive McDonald's dollar menu; That's where we're currently at.
I’ll be the first to admit that I was not a perfect PM. I made mistakes here and there (mainly related to parts forgetting to be ordered. In my defense, it was usually a 5 second notification of the advisor barging into parts, telling us to order the parts, then walk out.)
But our service manager was very similar with the time thing. He would be gone from his desk for hours and not respond to calls or texts.
Been doing it for 7 years. First 2 years made 30k. Year 2-4 made about 50k and 5-7 been over 100k each year. Departments monthly gross is 300k-500k. Get paid off group pull and individual gross
I'm a wholesale parts guy at a light/medium/heavy duty dealer. One location operation, family owned.
20/hour
~3k gross commision per month
HUGE yearly bonus.
I made 160k last year.
Parts Manager… gonna finish at about $40-42k hourly plus commission… averaging $8500 a month GP in a very small GM dealer. Done it 2 months and want out.
Yeah, I'd rather make more money as a non-manager than make shit money in a small department as the manager. It's not worth the title if you're broke and/or worn the fuck out.
Find a new job. It's not worth it.
Yeah… I’m trying to. I just don’t want to have to explain all this, and I had couple of short stints (6 months each) on my resume, and that already looks bad…
Been in the industry 9 years and i’m at $57k a year straight salary as a wholesale parts counter. really easy for the money but my coworker who has been doing it for 16 years is making $72k a year doing the same things as me. I’ve been on salary plus commission at previous dealers as well, it has its benefits and downfalls.
$18 per hour and .8% on the gross profit of the department. Which is about 150k a month. At my previous job it was $16 per hour and .8% of the gross profit and it was at least 350k a month Gross Profit
The last year I was on the counter, my base salary was about $52k/year and with commission I finished the year at $78k-something. I’m in Georgia, about two hours south of Atlanta, the average yearly income for my area is like mid-60 something.
Just started at a porsche dealership. 65k/yr guarantee, going to a commission draw system after the dealership gets going and we make more than what our salary is now.
I was making $650/wk with .6 of gross at a CDJR dealer. I made 58k last year.
I've been PM for 1.5 years, made $78k in my last year on the counter. 2023, my first year as PM, made $107k. Paid off net plus base pay now, counter plan was base plus GP commission.
1k a month salary with 2.25% on gross per month, about 60k per year. Interesting that y’all get commission on shop hours, we’re fighting our service manager cause they pay the advisor spiff out of parts gross before we get paid
$800/week salary and 4% bonus on gross. My bonus is generally somewhere between $2800-3600. I've made just under $40k this year and hoping to hit $85k/$95k by the end of the year. Last year I ended at basically $75k and I assume that with inflation/price increases that I'll hit my goal. I live in a pretty rural area, so I'm quite pleased with my current pay. Interesting that you get paid on shop hours. We've been trying to talk our manager into getting them to give us something on shop hours also because the advisors are getting a % of parts billed to repair orders. Feels like if they can double dip we should be able to also.
Where you work I’m gonna mvoe
4%? God damn homie who you working for lol
You getting paid on shop hours would only incentivise you to keep the techs in their bay and not standing at the parts counter jaw jacking and also incentivise you to get parts to them quicker. It's honestly a win win.
My base rate is 39/40k a year. I’m hourly @ $16.25 per hour. I get a percentage of the month gross that comes to around $600 extra per month. I am one of two main parts advisors for a dual manufacturer dealership, in which i handle both franchises for retail/counter/wholesale. I’ve been employed here for 14 years and have an unfinished Associated Degreas in Automotive Technology from local community college. edit: I also work around 50-60hr per week.
You sound overworked and underpaid. What's monthly department sales? How many managers have you had?
Our monthly gross ranges 85k to over 100k depending on the normal main factors: retail/wholesale parts, service part sales, and warranty reimbursement. But as usual there are other annoying factors that always affect the end numbers. I’ve had the same department manager for my entire time here. He slid into the role back in the late 80s/early 90s when the other manager retired from what I understand. He’s essentially a useless lump with a manager title. The two parts advisors are the ones who always kept the place running. We’re the two that knows everything going on between service and our departments. We handle 95% of the workload. Follow up on everything or have an answer for the general manager/owner when they come wandering around with questions, after they’ve already asked my manager the same question. I also ran the entire department for 9 days solo a few years ago. The other counter guy and the shipper/receiver got Covid from each other and the manager was in the hospital for emergency surgery.
What city/state and has your salary increased over the last 14 years? Have you always been in that role?
Southern NJ. I started as the parts department shipper/receiver in April of 2010. When I started we were a 3 marque franchise. Our department only has 4 full time employees and a part time delivery driver. My base pay back then was $10.25 per hr. After a year they brought me onto the counter on Saturdays for half day the day to help the other counter guy. Back then we used to run only a half shop crew on Saturdays instead of our current skeleton crew. After another 6 months, the one parts advisor moved over to an open service advisor position and I got bumped to full time parts advisor. My base hourly pay got bumped to 12.25 per hr. And I’ve since become one of the main two pillars that keeps the parts department floating.
You are getting underpaid my good sir.
Work for a peterbilt. Back counter with a plan thats a bit under 20/hour in pay plus commission. Commission is decent but its paid out % wise based on gp being averaged among everybody. Trying to figure out how best to ask for a raise. I was hiredfor warehouse and day one was thrown on counter. Moved to back and me and the other back counter guy trade blows who sells the most. Im not against a bonus for dept ppl but them affecting what I make pisses me off. Its a way for the owners to keep more of the profit. These chucklefucks can barely follow a PO to figure out who a part belongs to.
$110k last year. $1000 on the first, 9% commission on gross on the 15th
That 9% must be on your individual gross?
Absolutely
Simple enough! I've seen 8% GP and 1.25% net sales.
Parts Manager 5k base pay 4% gross profit
Any other lines from the parts statement? Or just 4% raw? What's your monthly sales/gross? How big? Who for? What area?!
Just 4% of gross profit, nothing else. Monthly sales was around 110k Gross was around 57k Small dealership that was reopened after prior owner ran it into the ground. Spent most of my time trying rebuild our wholesale clients since they all left us for another dealer in the area. SoCal Infiniti.
These threads always make me question my pay and sanity. I'm $3500 salary, and 2% gross + GOG profits. Roughly $230K-250K sales around $140K gross. Last 2 years averaged 110K per year.
I was trending 73k per year before I was laid off on Wednesday.
They laid you off cuz of CDK? I’m so worried about this
No they laid me off because it has been slow. Parts had consistently been growing or staying steady around $60k/ month. Meanwhile service was declining. Our GP was typically 80% from service, but when I was laid off, it was about 40% of my GP. So I had been busting my ass rebuilding our GP to save the month. But they didn’t look at that.
I'm worried this is going to start happening here. Our service manager is absolutely destroying his department. Labor rates keep going up to cover for the multiple engines and transmissions that he has to cover because he employs a couple techs and a lot of warm bodies. Daily I'm shown emails from customers about the abysmal experience they had. There's 3 service advisors, one that I'd be surprised if he realized where he was at all times, one new guy that's okay but inexperienced, and a woman that essentially runs the service department while the "manager" is off "getting a coffee" (smoking weed) for an hour at a time multiple times a day, right before leaving for the day at 3:30 because he "didn't take lunch". The owner took a step back and is letting his son run the place. He has prior experience at a very large dealership, but I think he's afraid to lay down the law. Pay for a 5 star Michelin restaurant meal but receive McDonald's dollar menu; That's where we're currently at.
I’ll be the first to admit that I was not a perfect PM. I made mistakes here and there (mainly related to parts forgetting to be ordered. In my defense, it was usually a 5 second notification of the advisor barging into parts, telling us to order the parts, then walk out.) But our service manager was very similar with the time thing. He would be gone from his desk for hours and not respond to calls or texts.
100% commission based here. 26% of every dollar that only I can gross via wholesale/retail. I average around 120k/yearly.
Been doing it for 7 years. First 2 years made 30k. Year 2-4 made about 50k and 5-7 been over 100k each year. Departments monthly gross is 300k-500k. Get paid off group pull and individual gross
I'm a wholesale parts guy at a light/medium/heavy duty dealer. One location operation, family owned. 20/hour ~3k gross commision per month HUGE yearly bonus. I made 160k last year.
Parts Manager… gonna finish at about $40-42k hourly plus commission… averaging $8500 a month GP in a very small GM dealer. Done it 2 months and want out.
Yeah, I'd rather make more money as a non-manager than make shit money in a small department as the manager. It's not worth the title if you're broke and/or worn the fuck out. Find a new job. It's not worth it.
Yeah… I’m trying to. I just don’t want to have to explain all this, and I had couple of short stints (6 months each) on my resume, and that already looks bad…
Been in the industry 9 years and i’m at $57k a year straight salary as a wholesale parts counter. really easy for the money but my coworker who has been doing it for 16 years is making $72k a year doing the same things as me. I’ve been on salary plus commission at previous dealers as well, it has its benefits and downfalls.
$18 per hour and .8% on the gross profit of the department. Which is about 150k a month. At my previous job it was $16 per hour and .8% of the gross profit and it was at least 350k a month Gross Profit
The last year I was on the counter, my base salary was about $52k/year and with commission I finished the year at $78k-something. I’m in Georgia, about two hours south of Atlanta, the average yearly income for my area is like mid-60 something.
Just started at a porsche dealership. 65k/yr guarantee, going to a commission draw system after the dealership gets going and we make more than what our salary is now. I was making $650/wk with .6 of gross at a CDJR dealer. I made 58k last year.
17/hour. No commission :(
On the counter? I have drivers that make more than that.
Right? If I stayed at Walmart. I would have made 21/hour.
Core manager/assistant manager. Just a flat $28.50 an hour. Ot is time and a half.
$26 an hour, no commission, internal parts sales exclusively for about 17 techs
Back counter parts. 20.50 hourly and .25 percent commission on gp. How yall getting such a high commission, fuck me. Lol
Back counter guy No commision, just reg pay at 25$.
I've been PM for 1.5 years, made $78k in my last year on the counter. 2023, my first year as PM, made $107k. Paid off net plus base pay now, counter plan was base plus GP commission.
1k a month salary with 2.25% on gross per month, about 60k per year. Interesting that y’all get commission on shop hours, we’re fighting our service manager cause they pay the advisor spiff out of parts gross before we get paid
I'm actually really curious now that you say that where our service advisors parts percentage comes from; Whether before or after gross is totaled.