I've seen this broken down before - it's scary:

• New Director Training in Dallas is at least $1,000, maybe more depending on where you stay and what sort of flight you take
• Leadership Conference, same as NDT, $1,000
• Career Conference, same as NDT, $1,000, unless it's being held close enough that you don't have to fly or rent a room
• Seminar is usually more expensive, since you'll have to buy a gown for Awards Night and be sure your unit is decorated so let's budget at least $1,200
• Director suit, new one every year runs about $400 a year
• Rent for a weekly meeting location could be at least $50 a week
• Decorations for your meeting space and for Career Conference/Seminar (your unit will want to do something to stand out from the crowd) about $50 a quarter
• Admin to do your newsletters, e-mails, etc. (unless you can convince one of your unit to do it for free as "training") and postage for anything you have to mail out can be $100 a week
• God forbid you don't make production and your maintenance account is used up, your "free" car could now cost you $300 a month
• Prizes for your unit shouldn't run over a certain amount, but it'll all depend on how many achieve challenges, and when you are a new director, you usually have lots of people moving up and achieving things, so at least $200 a month
• Continue working your personal business enough to at least stay active, so at least $800 a year in personal orders
• Section 2 and PCP for your personal business can be at least $30 per quarter at minimum
• Gas to drive to debuts, career talks, meetings, etc.: $varies
• Commission Chargebacks, should any consultant return her products: $varies
• Taxes at year-end, depends on your income, but it's Self-Employment Taxes, which are higher than standard income taxes: $varies
• Health coverage, if you don't get it through your spouse or have a full-time J.O.B. of your own: $varies
• Incidentals is about $50 a month on the low side: pantyhose, new shoes, getting nails done, etc. (I'm including this because they are things that are going to be "required" as a director to maintain a certain image.)

Here's more detail from PC's blog from an actual director (it's even scarier): http://pinkcadillac.typepad.com/DirectorNetIncome.pdf


Makes me NEVER want to be a director!

that is really sad...

I would study the Appaulse magazine results and I quickly realized that only the top folks were posted there...so the majority of directors were not making anywhere near that

So it did not take long for me to realize that there was no way that being a Sales Director would ever replace my income (part-time and definitely not full-time!)

I think if more DIQs knew the truth, they would run for their lives!

My MK lady is a Senior Director.  She said they have a meeting every Tuesday & training every Wednesday.  Plus she has facial classes almost every evening, plus some weekends.     On top of it, there is a Saturday morning facial gathering of some sort.  Now is that crazy or what?     Can someone explain to me why a meeting every week, plus training every week & a Saturday thing??  How much training do you need to sell MK??     And how much stuff can you cover in one of those weekly meetings??  Wouldn't be the same stuff over & over?   That is just nuts! 
Can someone explain to me the need for all of thst?  Or should I say so much of that!