To ask whah the salary should be for this position?

[Londoner90]

So I’m just going to list a few things here so you get a better idea:

• retail showroom manager
• central London
• selling luxury products (as in if you have to as how much things are you can’t afford it)
• small team so busy busy busy
• driving sales
• loads of admin
• displays/new product launches
• small company so you got to cover others if they are on holiday
• general showroom running crap
• you need great interpersonal skills
• full time 40hrs/week

How much do you think this person should be earning ?

Londoner90 There are only a very few showrooms like this in London. If there is only a few the clients can't be that high end if they don't or can't notice the sales people are uneducated. Which on the other hand makes we wonder if the pay is relatively high because it can't be: art, antiques, high end jewellery. Could be cars, clobber, some estate agency.

The salary will be whatever the employer is willing to pay, and they can get someone to work for. Everything else is irrelevant. And given the competition for jobs right now, probably a lot less than it was a few months ago.

Is there really any need to be quite so fucking snooty?

Why is it snooty? From the scant detail given in the first post it sounds like a fairly standard sales position, which doesn’t usually require a degree, yet OP insists it does and so a PP asked why.

If there is only a few the clients can't be that high end if they don't or can't notice the sales people are uneducated.
What on earth does this mean?!

About £45k poss plus commission.

Industries and their associated salaries are weird aren't they. I doubt many poor kids go into vintage wine, fine art or antiques. So those industries pay rich kids who don't need to worry about house deposits or pensions relatively little. Like politics. Woefully paid for hours done/commitment especially at junior level and we wonder why it attracts a certain type.

I'd say it would be commission based. Maybe 25k plus good commission.

so what is the position offering? or are you trying to work out what you should offer to recruit??

YABU

How on earth is anyone supposed to know when you won’t explain why it’s so special?

Go ask people who are actually in that industry.

If there is only a few is grammatically incorrect. If there are, isn't. Therefore I query whether it's traditionally well heeled high end such as St James's or naff/gauche high end.

Sounds like that shop Julia Roberts was chucked out of in Pretty Woman. And the staff worked mainly on commission.

Art or antiques can be big money and often a degree js it that

Small company is the most material point made in the initial description which is why £35k might not be too low. If instead it were a branch of a leading brand then it could well be a lot more.

Very difficult to say without knowing what it is. Even if it's high end products, different industries command very different salaries

What's the point of asking this? If someone gets it right it will only be a lucky guess.

Degree might be language / languages if it’s high end London retail...not necessarily product or industry specific. Russian, Chinese, Japanese maybe?

£25-£30k plus commission so maybe up to £40/£45 k all in.

Since when do you need a degree to run a retail showroom?

Also degree doesnt mean it will be a highly paid role. The high wage comes with years of in deoth experience even doctors jeed to specialise for years before making good money so that doesn't really mean much.

How much did they offer you?

Is there a design element to this job?

Fine art, architecture and design would be the closest industries to what I am doing. I think when some posters thought of showrooms they had the tacky, flashy type of car showrooms from American movies - it’s not like that... we call it a showroom but it’s more of a mixture of showroom and a studio. As I said it not scanning barcodes only... we would have customers and clients as well. Quite complex. No one sell what we sell - I know I’m being mysterious, not on purpose but if I said exactly what it is you can go on google and find us about 2 minutes, which I prefer if didn’t happen 😂
I already work for this place, but my salary is due to be reviewed and I am a bit lost at what I should earn to be fair.

Ps: I have no idea why some people comment on threads that adds nothing constructive to it. Like what’s your point?! Don’t like the thread?! Then move on !!! 🙄

I know the kind of place you're talking about I think.. bespoke products, art related degree, specific requests, etc?

You are coming across as a bit dim OP so maybe you shouldn’t be earning a high salary (not saying those on low salaries are dim but OP clearly thinks they should be earning a fortune )

Conservatories/garden studios? Bespoke bookshelves? Wardrobes? I'd still say the same.
Good luck with your pay review op but no one is going to offer you anything especially helpful here with the info you have given.
(Architecture is notoriously low paid. You can start post masters degree on, what? Minimum wage??)