Performance based vs Hourly based

I love to track everything and want to know what’s happening after that.

-Why do I track? And What’s it telling me?

Thus, I like to propose everyone who works salary/hourly based switch to performance based. Technically if you perform well you get paid well, if you don’t you won’t get a base salary maybe the bare minimum for paying food/transportation etc. Isn’t that too hard? I don’t think so. When I was working at Nordstrom (the Year 2012) they were paying us no base salary only commission of sales ( I believe around 3%). And, if you don’t sell anything during your working shift on that day (5-8 hours depends on location) they were paying hourly $8 bucks (less than minimum wage that time was $12-13) or something.

A) There is no chance, you can’t sell any single item. A lot of customers are coming to the cash register to buy something. All you do is ringing them and putting their shirts in a Nordstrom bag. Your job is technically up-sale that client to make more sales. Or take care of that customer and make them come to you next time.

B) If you still didn’t sell anything that day, you will do next day. And, you still get paid $8/hourly to cover your gas/coffee.

C) Let’s say If you have no sales that week or month and only relying on that less than minimum wage, you are SUCK at selling. You should quit!

Technically Nordstrom is paying that little money to let you quit slowly instead of they fire you!

What if Nordstrom is only paying you a decent/good base salary no matter how much sales do you do or not?

-It won’t be fair if you do huge sales of volume. You will probably leave that company and find another one

-It won’t be fair to your colleague too. They do all the work and get paid by the company the same amount as others who don’t make any sales.

That’s why I love to see everyone get rewarded for their performance NOT how many hours they are putting in their work.