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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: littleny on January 16, 2024, 12:41

Title: Climbing levels - Earnings
Post by: littleny on January 16, 2024, 12:41

I honestly don’t understand how ss calculates earnings.
Each year I climb the ladder of earnings and see the earnings schedule which reads level 1 - 15%, level 2 - 20%,  level 3 - 25% and so on.
I don’t remember off the top of my head but I’m pretty sure in years past I’ve gotten to level 5.  But throughout the course of the whole year I continue to see .10 images earnings. Why?

Title: Re: Climbing levels - Earnings
Post by: Uncle Pete on January 16, 2024, 13:07

Because at some of the levels, SS is losing money, as they have made the minimum for any image 10¢. Some of the 750 a month contracts, annual, paid in advance, are so cheap that we still get only 10¢. But you are correct, the part where we get a higher percentage at each level.

(https://i.postimg.cc/KvrN5K36/SS_levels_chart_subs.jpg)

The reason I left .26 white is, that's what we used to get, minimum, before they decided to reward us with the new system.

The row where it's $0.10 all the way across, the licenses cost 22¢ each, and at any level for us, that would return less than 10¢ commission.