I appreciate all the responses here and you’ve all given me much to consider. I would probably say that we are selling an average of 140-160 units through our Toyota location, but we are also opening a used vehicle outlet across the street next month that will hopefully see a significant increase in units sold. I say this because I’m in charge of the inventory at these stores (pictures, window stickers, comments, tracking, etc.) and get paid $6/vehicle that I photograph. Our markets are primarily the Cincinnati and Lexington areas, with us located just 30 minutes south of downtown Cincinnati.
Like I implied in my first post, I know I’m grossly underpaid for what I do (actually I will barely clear $32k (including picture fees) for a year at my current rate). I’ve been doing this for about 8 months now and we went into this as uncharted territory in the hopes for a major improvement in our website and inventory. Fortunately, these improvement goals have been met and exceeded, but the pay will definitely need to be made competitive or I might be better off going back to the sales floor to make some money (which I don’t look forward to plus there is no way they would let me).
Additionally, at the time of the initial posting I was hoping that we were going to be working on my compensation, but I was just informed yesterday that the owner is seeking cost-saving measures from all departments, including freezing all pay.
As Yagoparamo suggest, for the time being I am learning as much as I can while I can. The BDC Director is also wanting to train me some more on the BDC side of things, but I don't know if he'll actually get to it. In the coming years, I figure that many of the skills and systems that I’m learning will be highly desirable to dealerships seeking to take more advantage of eCommerce.
Thanks,
Scott
