Excel formula with commission based tiers

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Hello!

 

I can't wrap my head around how to create this formula. 

In cell I20 I have an employee's net sales. In I21 I want to create a formula that will give their commission earnings. 

 

So for example, if the employee has $132,000 in annual sales, their commission tier would be 2%, BUT they wouldn't just get a blanket 2% on their annual sales. They would have 0% commission on the first $50,000, 1% on the $50k-100k, etc. 

 

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Thank you!

 

2 Replies

@kittenmeants 

 

Let me suggest you arrange your table something like the IRS does its tax tables.

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Doing so, and you'll want to play with this to make sure it's giving you the results you want, I came up with the following.

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See the attached

 

@kittenmeants I will also suggest a table change and although I concur with @mathetes option here is an alternative:

The sales becomes 2 columns to make reference much easier and then a single formula:

=SUMPRODUCT((E2>B2:B6)*(B2:B6-A2:A6)*(C2:C6)+(E2>A2:A6)*(E2<B2:B6)*(E2-A2:A6)*(C2:C6))

I would even recommend using named regions so it could be:

 

=SUMPRODUCT((E2>Sales_high)*(Sales_high-Sales_low)*(Commission)+(E2>Sales_low)*(E2<Sales_high)*(E2-Sales_low)*(Commission))

which can make it much more readable