sales bonus

Quota achievement payout

A sales bonus is extra compensation paid to salespeople for meeting or exceeding targets.

Unlike base salary, bonuses are performance-based incentives tied to specific goals—hitting quarterly quotas, closing major accounts, or surpassing revenue benchmarks.

She earned a hefty sales bonus for landing the corporate contract.

The structure varies: some are flat amounts, others percentage-based.

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