Being a medical sales rep is a pretty sweet gig, salary-wise. But a new survey highlights huge pay gaps between different types of health product marketers, with biotech dominating the compensation game.
Pharmaceutical sales representatives earn the lowest average total compensation among all medical sales people, according to a MedReps.com survey of nearly 3,300 active medical sales employees. A lot of that has to do with commissions and bonuses—while pharmaceutical marketers earned the fourth largest average base salary out of the nine surveyed sectors, their bonuses were by far the lowest.
