People who sell LuLaRoe can make money without bonuses, but much of their compensation plan talks about the bonuses. But by LuLaRoe’s own admission, over 78 percent of its consultants earned no bonuses in 2015. And the website says that “the average annual bonus payments made by LuLaRoe to ALL U.S. Consultants at all ranks (which includes Eligible and Ineligible Consultants) in 2015 was $91.65, and the median annual bonus payments made to ALL U.S. Consultants at all ranks in 2015 was $85.80.”
The company also states that “the average annual bonus payments made by LuLaRoe to Eligible U.S. Consultants at all ranks in 2015 was $424.81, and the median annual bonus payments made to Eligible U.S. Consultants at all ranks in 2015 was $397.69.” While this does not count the money consultants make from simply selling the clothing, it is still a sobering set of numbers.
The site PinkTruth.com broke down how hard it is to make the bonus money, noting that people reportedly have to order at least 175 pieces of clothing in a month to be eligible, which works out to about $3500 worth of orders each month. That’s a lot of merchandise to sell at once.
It’s amazing that people work so hard to chase a dream that is so unattainable. It’d be much easier to work at a restaurant for 5 years and then open a franchise or study a trade like massage therapy or plumbing and make just as much money without having to hustle so hard.
Most importantly, the people who buy into these..this isn’t their first rodeo. MLM chasers have a disease. They are drawn into these schemes and you’d think they would have figured it out the first time that this is a way for everyone above them to make money versus the other way around.