Friday, February 26, 2010

Amway Global versus A McDonald's Employee?

When you visit the Amway Global blog, they have a section I believe called "by the numbers". When you click it, it takes you to "Thisbiznow" and shows the average income of "active" IBOs to be $115 a month - and that's after Amway disregarded about 1/3 of the IBO sales force as they are not "active". I believe that this figure is based on a 2001 survey done by the corporation (And Amway supporters complain and bemoan critics for not having currect information).

One of the things I often hear from Amway supporters is a comparison of Amway and franchises. (McDonalds in particular). First of all, unless I am mistaken, Amway is not a franchisor, and their salesforce (IBOs) are not franchise owners. This is simply a trick used by some lines of sponsorship to make you feel nice and important (I guess). So there is no valid comparison between an IBO and McDonalds.

But let's look at one very telling comparison between Amway IBOs and McDonalds. In Hawaii, the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. If someone were employed at McDonald's for $7.25 per hour, and they worked 5 hours per week, or 20 hours in a month, their gross income would be $145.00! That's more than an average IBO receives from the Amway opportunity! For you average IBOs out there - want a 30% raise? Get a 5 hour per week job at McDonalds! Go Big Mac!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would McDonalds be willing to fit your schedule and agree to arrange for you to work only 20 hours a month?

Would they make it flexible for you as to decide if and when you do put in those hours through out the month?

Joecool said...

Sure, McDonald's is flexible.

Does your upline hold nite owls duriing the day or do they have open meetings in the morning?

Anonymous said...

if you work at Mc'Dodalds, do you upset your friends, relatives and neighbors? but when you are the great IBO, you will and probably have already.