How to create Sliding Scale Commission Calculator in Excel - YouTube

Channel: Barb Henderson

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today we're going to talk about a sliding scale commission rate calculator
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this is a problem that I work done for a customer of mine and I'm going to
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explain how I figured it out so here we have a rate calculation on the amount
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amount that they have earned Commission on sold for $50,000 they would make
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$1,250 commission or 2.5 percent now so this works perfectly so if if you had
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for example straight $50,000 you would be an easy you would not have to do
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any calculations you need to know that you have to pay $1,250 in
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commission unfortunately though people make numbers that aren't exactly on the
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on the chart here so what we're gonna do this first let's figure out vlookup
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for the values that we have here so I entered in in C10 here i have entered
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$210,000 so what we're gonna do is we'll go to the first cell that I started
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working on the calculation so we do they Vlook up C10 and then
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values are C12 E 23 and then we're we're gonna look in the second column so in
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the second column here and you get the 1200 you get the so for $200,000 you
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forget 475 Commission and that's exactly what the Vlook up has
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brought us back now we have a value entered in here more than $200,000 so
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the first thing your gonna do is we're going to calculate how much more than
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$200,000 it is so we go into our next formula and we say we take the value
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that we have entered here which is two hundred and ten thousand dollars minus
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look up that value is C10 in value
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in our chart here and we want to look at the first column so we want
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to find the one that's closest to C10 and minus it so what happens is you end
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up minusing $210,000 minus the $200,000 from the vlookup in column 1
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and you reach $10,000 so what we've done in the next column here is the all we've
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taken the $10,000 and we've looked on the vlookup for the same values we've
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looked at the $200,000 and we've gone over to column three and we noticed
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that yet 2.25% commison rate so you multiply that $10,000 terms at 2.25% and
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you end up with $225 now basically would you have to do here is add your first
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formula which is the Vlook up just two straight plus the vlookup minus what
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we've calculated for the extra commission so now you come up with four
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thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars commission this works fine the
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only thing that we have to do here to finish off the formula is what happens
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if you have a value that under $50,000 so now what we're gonna do is we're
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gonna put an IF on there there
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IF C10
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is less than $50,000 there and we're gonna do is we're gonna do C10 times
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E12 which is our 2.25% and we will add up our bracket and then we'll put
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another one at the end here and we'll get the same value but because we've put
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the if in there so it's a we had a sale sale of $45,000 and there you have
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you have it is calculated it for less than that now let's go 425 so now
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it's worked perfectly for you have your sliding rate Commission calculator I
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know this is being confused and using it is explained on my website Easy Excel
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counters and the formulas are written out there for you as well