Compensation Meaning

Currently interviewing for a job, and haven't come to the conversation about what the salary is but on the job posting it is listed as " Highly competitive and progressive commission structure"

What does this exactly mean? Base plus commission? Or just commission?

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It doesn't seem very clear. I am not sure if the highly competitive refers to the" progressive commission structure" or a competitive base plus progressive commissions.

I would guess a reasonable base salary and commissions that increase with better performance.

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What's the job title and what type of shop is it with? That may (or may not) provide some more clarity if we were to speculate on the comp structure.

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.....meaning a debt & equity raising/brokerage firm, or a debt & equity principal/investment management/capital deployment firm.

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