Basically $52,000 + and they will own your soul day and night. You will be up late answering e-mails, filling out reports, doing expense reports, submitting programs etc. The manager you interview with will give you an inflated story of what you can expect to earn in bonus. You don't get any vacation until you have worked for them for 6 months and then you only get 5 days. You have to work for them for a year before you get the standard 2 weeks that any normal employer would offer.
I have lots of experience in this industry - Forest is not a good company to work for. They under pay their reps compared to the competition and do not measure up in terms of vacation time either. Also, they start their reps out on probation so when they show them the door 6 months later, they do not have to pay them any severence. With Forest it is all about getting signatures - not selling - a real backwards company. And they also do little to keep their reps up to date in terms of training - coming from a rep that has been on both sides of the fence. There are some nice people at Forest, but it's not a place I would recommend and certainly not a place I would want to retire from. When they recruit new reps, they often send out messages saying they want reps with no pharmaceutical experience. Why do you think that is? Let me tell you #1 they can pay them A LOT less and #2 that rep never realizes the stupid business decisions they are making because they have never seen anything else.
Oh yeah and one of the previous posters was right - they won't even pay for an ink pen! - much less the paper it takes to print off your expense report, sticky notes, paper clips, staples or anything else you need to run your business - including they won't even buy you a calendar to write your appointments in! They give you $50 to start - ummmm that would buy one box of paper...nothing else. I guess they don't expect their employees to stick around any longer than that and what amazes me is the dumb ones that put up with this and say nothing!
