Commission on sales, total pay and a minimum wage check, with every step shown.
Commission (gross)
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Enter the sales and the rate to see the commission.
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Enter your sales for the pay period and the commission plan in your contract: one rate, or up to three rates split by two thresholds. You get the commission before tax, total pay with your basic pay and, if you want, a check against the minimum wage in force across the UK (£12.71 an hour for workers aged 21 and over since 1 April 2026) for the hours you work.
Flat rate: one rate on all sales. Banded: each slice of sales earns the rate of its band, as with tax bands, so only the sales above a threshold earn the higher rate. Retroactive: once sales reach a threshold, that tier’s rate applies to all your sales from the first pound. A threshold is reached when sales are equal to it or above it.
The first rate applies below the first threshold; enter 0 if nothing is paid until you hit a target. The second threshold is optional: leave it empty for a two-rate plan. Enter the figure your plan pays on, whether that is sales invoiced, cash received or margin, with or without VAT.
Tick ‘Check against the minimum wage’, choose a monthly or weekly pay period and enter your hours a week. For a month, the calculator counts weekly hours × 52 ÷ 12. The hourly rates are £12.71 at 21 and over, £10.85 at 18 to 20, and £8.00 under 18 or for apprentices, the same in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The minimum wage covers workers, not the genuinely self-employed. If your contract guarantees more, choose ‘Other hourly minimum’.
Amounts are rounded to the nearest penny, with halves rounded up; with bands, each band is rounded and the bands are then added. Copy the workings in one click, export them as a CSV file or save the result to Priostack.
Flat rate: commission = sales × rate.
Banded: commission = the sum, band by band, of (sales within the band × the band’s rate).
Retroactive: commission = sales × the rate of the highest tier reached.
Minimum for a month = hourly rate × hours a week × 52 ÷ 12; top-up due = minimum − (basic pay + commission), when positive.
A salesperson on £1,200 a month basic pay earns 2% up to £20,000 of sales, 4% from £20,000 to £40,000 and 6% above that. With £45,000 of sales in the month, the banded plan pays £400.00 + £800.00 + £300.00 = £1,500.00, so total pay is £2,700.00. As a retroactive plan, 6% applies to all sales: £2,700.00. In a quiet month with £10,000 of sales, banded commission is £200.00 and total pay £1,400.00, below the £2,065.38 minimum for 37.5 hours a week at £12.71, so the employer must pay an extra £665.38.
With bands, a higher rate applies only to the sales above its threshold. With retroactive tiers, it applies to all sales once the threshold is reached, so commission jumps at the threshold: at 4% below £40,000 and 6% from £40,000, sales of £39,999.99 earn £1,600.00 and sales of £40,000 earn £2,400.00. Your contract or commission plan says which one you are on.
Yes. HMRC counts incentive payments that relate only to the worker’s own performance, such as sales commission. Overtime and shift premiums, tips and expense payments do not count. The check is made for each pay reference period, which is never longer than a month; commission earned in one period and paid in the next still counts towards the period in which it was earned.
Yes. Employers record commission in payroll as normal pay, so it goes through PAYE with your salary. The figures here are before tax and National Insurance; a take-home pay calculator shows what reaches your bank account.
In England, Scotland and Wales, yes, for the 4 weeks of statutory leave that regular-hours workers must be paid at their ‘normal’ rate of pay, which includes commission; the remaining 1.6 weeks can be paid at the basic rate. Irregular-hours and part-year workers are paid all their leave at the normal rate. Bonuses are not usually included. These rules come from the Working Time Regulations 1998, which do not extend to Northern Ireland: it has its own.
On 1 April each year. From 1 April 2027 they will be £13.21 at 21 and over, £11.27 at 18 to 20, and £8.31 for under-18s and apprentices. This calculator uses the rates in force since 1 April 2026.
The commission is worked out the same way, but the minimum wage check does not apply: someone working on a genuinely self-employed basis for a client is not a worker and is not entitled to the minimum wage.
This calculator gives general information, not legal, tax, financial or accounting advice. Your contract and commission plan decide what you are owed: if in doubt, ask your employer or an adviser.
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