Acquisitions Analyst - Commission Structure

Hey All,

New to this site and love churning through as much as I can. I have gone over the numerous comp threads (which helped me get my current position) but I have a question that I believe I haven't seen.

Im an acquisitions analyst 2 months out of college at a smaller MF infill shop. Great place to be, great team and a fairly competitive base. My boss mentioned that on top of my base, any deals I source and we close on, I get a % commission.

My question is, what do you guys think is the value of my service and what I do for the company, in a commission metric. If I source a deal, underwrite, build the relationship and all the rest, is that worth say... 0.5% of the purchase price 

Let me know what you think!

If anyone else has a similar comp structure please tell me your experience 

3 Comments
 

This is an aside. And probably locale specific -- but any issues legally with someone getting a commission on deals that they bring in or find, if they do not have a brokerage license? How common is this in the industry. And is the differentiator that you are employed by/an employee of the payor?

Food for thought/discussion:

* http://www.itkowitz.com/booklets/FINDER-S-FEES-WHAT-YOU-SHOULD-KNOW.pdf

https://www.kesslercollins.com/E8C9FA/assets/files/Documents/GK_Finders…

 

Interviewing for an Acqusitions role with similar benefit. I don’t see it as a real benefit and may be a way to promise them this potential and underpay. How often are they closing deals, how are their current deals coming in? Not to diminish your confidence but to me this very rarely yields actual $ for the Acqusitions analyst and is more of something they can brag about “oh we include all of our employees in deals” when in reality you’ll see very few and frequent dollars from it at least at the role I’m looking at. They buy one time a year maybe, I’m not holding my breathe to get paid from getting part of the deal structure. 

 

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