Commission statement, August 2026
Commission statement
A representative earns $5,294.50 in August and banks $3,294.50. The gap is a $2,000 draw being recovered, and the statement is built so that difference is explained on the page rather than in an email.
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- Letterhead
- The employer, its ABN and the payroll inbox, with the statement number and a confidentiality note in the footer.
- Headline figures
- The month deals, commission earned, net payable and the payroll date it lands on.
- Representative and period
- Who the statement is for, their territory and plan, the cut off date and who prepared and approved it.
- Commissionable deals
- Six deals with customer, invoice, payment date, net revenue, rate and commission, totalled.
- Why two rates appear
- The product mix behind the four and four and a half per cent lines, with the two customers named.
- Adjustments
- The accelerator, the clawback, the prior month catch up, the draw and the net payable, each with its basis.
- Superannuation and tax
- The twelve per cent payable on top, where it appears, and how tax is withheld on the payment.
- Year to date
- Two months of revenue counted, commission earned and commission paid, with the year to date row.
- Why revenue counted differs
- The reconciliation between the deals table and the year to date table, in plain words.
- Why the commission columns differ
- The draw, how a shortfall carries forward and the rule that it never touches ordinary wages.
- The plan rules
- Six numbered rules on when commission is earned, what revenue means, clawbacks, the accelerator, territory and leaving.
- Invoiced but not yet paid
- Three deals sitting outside the cut off with what they are worth if they clear next month.
- Changes flagged for the second half
- The rate stepping down in January and the threshold under review, with the notice period for each.
Clauses in this document
What makes this document work
The adjustments table is the whole document
Base commission, accelerator, clawback, a prior month catch up and the draw, each on its own row with its basis. Five numbers add to the amount that lands in the bank, and every one of them can be traced to an invoice.
The two rates are explained by product, not by exception
Four per cent on the standard range and four and a half on Ecoline, with the two customers that bought Ecoline named. That turns a rate column into planning information for next month.
Superannuation is stated as payable on top
$635.34 at twelve per cent of the commission earned, paid in addition rather than deducted, and shown on the payslip rather than here. It is the line most commission statements omit and the one people most often assume is missing.
Questions people ask
What should a commission statement show?
The deals that earned commission with the revenue and rate applied to each, every adjustment separately, what is actually payable, when it is paid, and the plan rules the calculation follows. A single total is not a statement.
When is commission earned?
On this plan, when cash clears, not when the invoice is raised. That is why an August invoice unpaid at the cut off does not appear and a July one that cleared on 3 August does, as a separate $344.00 adjustment line.
How does a draw work?
It is an advance against future commission, so it is repaid out of commission rather than added to it. Where a month earns less than the draw the shortfall carries forward, and it is never deducted from ordinary wages.
Is superannuation paid on commission?
Commission that forms part of ordinary time earnings attracts superannuation. Here that is twelve per cent of $5,294.50, which is $635.34, and the statement says explicitly that it is paid on top of the net figure rather than out of it.
Should a statement show deals invoiced but not yet paid?
Yes, and this one gives them a section. A representative who cannot see the pipeline between invoice and payment assumes the commission is lost. Listing the deals, with the amounts waiting, turns a payroll query into information the rep can act on, usually by chasing the client themselves.
Why flag plan changes on the statement itself?
Because the statement is the one document a salesperson definitely reads. This one carries changes flagged for the second half at the end, after the current figures. Announcing a rate change there gives notice in a form nobody can say they missed, and it dates the notice for you.
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