Mary Kay U.S. Keeps Losing Directors
Mary Kay is slowly dying in the U.S. In 2006 when Pink Truth started, the company had over 14,000 sales directors. They had about 700,000 consultants in the U.S. at that time. By 2008, the company had only 13,000 directors and 600,000 consultants. After that, MK Inc. never reported the number of consultants in the U.S. again. They only reported worldwide numbers. (China has been HUGE in propping up MK’s revenues, but that’s another story for another day. They started in China in 1995, but really put a lot of focus there around 2006-2009 as they saw the writing on the wall with falling numbers in the U.S.)
The company now provides this disclaimer and requires consultants and directors to mention it when they talk about their cars:
Notice that there are 1,000 Cadillacs on the road, and that 10% of directors have a Cadillac. That means there are around 10,000 sales directors in the U.S. right now. That’s a decrease of more than 28% since 2006.
Imagine going from 14,000 directors to 10,000. The highest number of consultants ever in the U.S. appears to be 2005, when there were 715,000. Historically, MK had an average of about 50 consultants per unit. I suspect that number is even lower now. The number of consultants in the U.S. is probably at 400,000 or 450,000. The numbers haven’t been that low since the 1990’s.
And I hope they keep going even lower!
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90% of Directors don’t even make $48,000/year. That’s how I read that because that would mean they’d be doing Cadillac production of at least $16,000/month and have $4,000 commission checks. But, they don’t.
Target is hiring for ~$48,000/year at $24/hr. Full benefits, too. No chargebacks, and no surprise car payments for 3 solid months. No conference fees or overpriced suits. No postage. No assistant’s pay. I could go on and on…
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But but but you can promote yourself in Mary Kay at any time!
Exactly! And Target employees wear a UNIFORM! Gag! Red polo and khakis! Plus you don’t make your own schedule at Target! It’s sooooo much better to make your own schedule to earn less than minimum wage than it is to be forced to work a schedule you don’t control and make nearly 50k doing it! Akkk!
Cries in Targetless Canada.
You are 100% correct.
And think of how many women are driving the Cadillac and not keeping up production. I bet AT LEAST 25% miss production and have copays the entire time. Probably more. That means their commission checks are lower than $48k AND they pay several thousand in copays each year.
I just can’t understand why the IBCs who stumble upon this site cannot acknowledge your very basic, very simple-to-prove point about this. Numbers never lie (unlike directors lol), and the numbers PROVE how little even the Caddy directors are making. Why is this so hard for them to understand?
I was give the following lie to share with everyone.
“There are more women earning over $100K a year than any other company. Certainly doesn’t look that way based on the numbers. And this doesn’t include all the business expenses that are expected from the directors.
I would bet there are more women earning more than $100k in this building than in Mary Kay:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park
The starting pay for tech people exceeds $100k, and Apple has a large technical staff—men and women—working at their spacecraft-looking building in Cupertino, CA.
I used to work there. Not for Apple, but for Hewlett Packard, back in the 80s. Yes, I am that old.
“ Notice that there are 1,000 Cadillacs on the road, and that 10% of directors have a Cadillac. That means there are around 10,000 sales directors in the U.S. right now. That’s a decrease of more than 28% since 2006.”
Ooooohhhh, MKC is NOT going to be happy that you used your mathematical skills to come to this ‘negative’ conclusion. I imagine they’re trying to figure out how to contest it via smoke and mirrors and relying upon their IBC masses to ignore anything deemed ‘negative’.