Diagnostic Testing/Lab $$$

[Anonymous]

anybody have any idea the money these reps make? also, is it a better gig than pharma?

any insight would be great. thank you!

 

[Anonymous]

Bigger market comparable money, definetaly 120k+ year.

 

[Anonymous]

Bigger market comparable money, definetaly 120k+ year.

very few make $120K per year. LabCorp & Qwest reps would be lucky to make $85K total. More specialized diagnostic sales can make more. Much more cut-throat. If you don't produce you are gone in one year

 

[Anonymous]

very few make $120K per year. LabCorp & Qwest reps would be lucky to make $85K total. More specialized diagnostic sales can make more. Much more cut-throat. If you don't produce you are gone in one year

This is correct! I worked for a specialty lab that competed with LabCorp and Qwest and I had MN and North Dakota as my territory. The company had no idea about managed care and the reibursement structure here in MN. So the answer to closed clinics and minimal access to doctors they added South Dakota and Iowa to my territory. So watch out for the travel because if they say 25% just double or triple it. Car allowance never covers all the gas, insurance and loan. But if you want out of pharma lab sales can be a step in the right direction!

 

[Anonymous]

I've always thought lab sales sounds like a good job. more challenging that pharma sales but anything has to be better than pharma sales

 

[Anonymous]

very few make $120K per year. LabCorp & Qwest reps would be lucky to make $85K total. More specialized diagnostic sales can make more. Much more cut-throat. If you don't produce you are gone in one year

You don't know what you are talkinga bout regarding making $85K. There are two types of reps, Key Account reps which are reps that maintain the accounts and marketing reps that go get new accounts. Those are in addition to your specialty sales positions. If you are a marketing rep then you should be making 110K+ a year in lab sales. A Key account re will not make anything close to that but they don't have nearly the pressure to get new business.

 

[Anonymous]

I've always thought lab sales sounds like a good job. more challenging that pharma sales but anything has to be better than pharma sales

Its probably more challenging, but the pay is likely less or the same.

People bash pharma, and they should, because its easy IF you know what you are doing, and IF you work hard, and IF you are smart...

Problem is, is that too many pharma reps are NOT good at these things. They are good at kissing ass and staying employed, when they have no talent.

The truly talented people are not working for any corporation, they are small business owners...

working for the Man is for those that are a. too lazy to start their own gig, b. not smart enough to start their own gig, c. love to kiss ass and do it often.

Pharma reps are a, b, and c.

 

[Anonymous]

You too do not know what you are talking about nor did the OP. Labs sales and Diagnostic sales are too different things. For instance the at LabCorp sales guys sell basic testing, but at the same company the US Labs guys sell all the oncology testing and the latter make a lot more than the former. So if you are at Genomic Health, Clarient(now GE), Genoptix, etc., selling reference lab tests for oncology you are making $200K a year, if you are selling basic lab testing you are probably making half that.