Average Salary For A Job In Sales In Thailand? ( For A Farang)

[Dutchbike]

Next week i have a job interview, for a possible job in sales ( the company, based in Thailand, sells worldwide there products mosltly through there websites)

The job would mean handling the orders from the webshops, anwsering questions from customers, giving info on the products, and providing after sales service.

So a basic sales job,

To be good prepared for the interview i would like to know what's the average salary for a Farang working in a job descriped above.

So if the question "what would you like to earn"would come up I can give a well thought over anwser.

Thanks in advance.

[MJCM]

No idea about the average Salary, but the Minimum Amount you should earn is 50.000 THB P/M, so you can get a Work Permit.

Edited August 16, 2012 by MJCM

[Gone]

You should know how much you will accept so just tell them that.

[davejones]

You should know how much you will accept so just tell them that.

There's no point accepting less if it's possible to get more.

[innerspace]

Unless your not worth more (says my employer side!)

[thrilled]

I'm not sure if it's legal for A farang to have A sales position in thailand

[qwertyuiop]

I'm not sure if it's legal for A farang to have A sales position in thailand

It was my understanding that sales was indeed a restricted profession so would need to be careful with the wording when applying for the work permit

[FalangBaa]

For the kind of job description you've just described, you'd be lucky to get a salary of 20,000 baht a month in Thailand, in other words about £403 a month at the current exchange rate. You'll be living in a dive apartment (i.e. single room with fan) and eating fried insects and Isaan sausages on the street. Nightlife, if you can afford it, will be a bottle of Siam Sato (27 baht) consumed in your miserable room or on the steps of a 7-11 store mixing with other foreign lost souls in Bangkok. Forget about Thai girls too. Any foreigner earning 20,000 baht a month will be considered a leper. Better stay at home. Your local McDonalds maybe has a vacancy, and at least at home you'll have access to decent infrastructure and free or subsidized health care.

[UKJASE]

For the kind of job description you've just described, you'd be lucky to get a salary of 20,000 baht a month in Thailand, in other words about £403 a month at the current exchange rate. You'll be living in a dive apartment (i.e. single room with fan) and eating fried insects and Isaan sausages on the street. Nightlife, if you can afford it, will be a bottle of Siam Sato (27 baht) consumed in your miserable room or on the steps of a 7-11 store mixing with other foreign lost souls in Bangkok. Forget about Thai girls too. Any foreigner earning 20,000 baht a month will be considered a leper. Better stay at home. Your local McDonalds maybe has a vacancy, and at least at home you'll have access to decent infrastructure and free or subsidized health care.

what a fun guy you are!! talk about mr downer..... dont go near any high ledges today mate, u may be tempted.......

[saltandpepper]

For the kind of job description you've just described, you'd be lucky to get a salary of 20,000 baht a month in Thailand, in other words about £403 a month at the current exchange rate. You'll be living in a dive apartment (i.e. single room with fan) and eating fried insects and Isaan sausages on the street. Nightlife, if you can afford it, will be a bottle of Siam Sato (27 baht) consumed in your miserable room or on the steps of a 7-11 store mixing with other foreign lost souls in Bangkok. Forget about Thai girls too. Any foreigner earning 20,000 baht a month will be considered a leper. Better stay at home. Your local McDonalds maybe has a vacancy, and at least at home you'll have access to decent infrastructure and free or subsidized health care.

Now, that's a cheer up!

[PattayaPhom]

By the amount of errors in your post, 10K a month, most Thais could write better.

[Spoonman]

No idea about the average Salary, but the Minimum Amount you should earn is 50.000 THB P/M, so you can get a Work Permit.

The 50k is the salary requirement for a visa extension based on employment.

[forumuser10]

No idea about the average Salary, but the Minimum Amount you should earn is 50.000 THB P/M, so you can get a Work Permit.

You dont need to earn 50 000 thb/month in order to get a work permit.

[forumuser10]

This question is only for foreigners with white skin?

Edited August 17, 2012 by forumuser10

[Dutchbike]

Thanks to the posters with the serious advice, and also "thanks" for the cheerful and uplifting words from others, sorry about my "bad" English.

I already live in Thailand for 2 years, have a house, a car, a few bikes, a lovely wife and daughter and 3 dogs, so i'm not that miserable or lost, so there's no need to put me down.Just asking a normal question.

The possiblity for this job just came up by coincedence, i have a regular income ( from real estate back in Europe) and this job would combine a nice pastime, and extra income, which would be used create some extra savings for the future and the nice things in life.

Also a job would me integrate me more in this country.( i'm not the type of guy which lies in a hammock all day drinking Changs)

Again thanks to the serious posters

[brit1984]

Maybe check jobsdb.com to see if there are any similar jobs advertised.

[MJCM]

No idea about the average Salary, but the Minimum Amount you should earn is 50.000 THB P/M, so you can get a Work Permit.

The 50k is the salary requirement for a visa extension based on employment.

You are correct. Sorry

Edited August 17, 2012 by MJCM

[BrianCR]

No idea about the average Salary, but the Minimum Amount you should earn is 50.000 THB P/M, so you can get a Work Permit.

You dont need to earn 50 000 thb/month in order to get a work permit.

No but, you need to pay tax on that amount in order to renew the visa and work permit - accept the teaching crowd that is!

[happysanook]

By the amount of errors in your post, 10K a month, most Thais could write better.

Must of been hanging out with a bunch of geniuses....Though there are a few errors, in my 6 years living here I haven't come across a Thai who could come close to that level of writing.

[davejones]

For the kind of job description you've just described, you'd be lucky to get a salary of 20,000 baht a month in Thailand, in other words about £403 a month at the current exchange rate. You'll be living in a dive apartment (i.e. single room with fan) and eating fried insects and Isaan sausages on the street. Nightlife, if you can afford it, will be a bottle of Siam Sato (27 baht) consumed in your miserable room or on the steps of a 7-11 store mixing with other foreign lost souls in Bangkok. Forget about Thai girls too. Any foreigner earning 20,000 baht a month will be considered a leper. Better stay at home. Your local McDonalds maybe has a vacancy, and at least at home you'll have access to decent infrastructure and free or subsidized health care.

Plenty of people I know earn around 20K and they are very happy and have a good life. They don't live in dives and don't eat insects. What's your problem?

[JaiLai]

For the kind of job description you've just described, you'd be lucky to get a salary of 20,000 baht a month in Thailand, in other words about £403 a month at the current exchange rate. You'll be living in a dive apartment (i.e. single room with fan) and eating fried insects and Isaan sausages on the street. Nightlife, if you can afford it, will be a bottle of Siam Sato (27 baht) consumed in your miserable room or on the steps of a 7-11 store mixing with other foreign lost souls in Bangkok. Forget about Thai girls too. Any foreigner earning 20,000 baht a month will be considered a leper. Better stay at home. Your local McDonalds maybe has a vacancy, and at least at home you'll have access to decent infrastructure and free or subsidized health care.

Plenty of people I know earn around 20K and they are very happy and have a good life. They don't live in dives and don't eat insects. What's your problem?

Thai's or farangs?

[Mousehound]

Most real sales people work on commission - so if you are confident you can really grow the business then you should consider what you can achieve as turnover and work out a percentage. eg. I would think a minimum would be 50K but if you can really deliver then there should realy be no top limit. It is then in their interest for you to earn as much as possible. This is a tack I used to get some very good marketting jobs over the years. So, you may like to look at 50K as a base but a commission on top to reflect high performance.

[yoshiwara]

I am not sure why such a job would be legit for a foreigner to hold. Secondly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was strictly commission only.

[mike123ca]

Put 400,000 baht in a bank account

O visa based on marriage

work permit is included.

[depe]

Put 400,000 baht in a bank account

O visa based on marriage

work permit is included.

How should this work? How the work permit could be included?

[UKJASE]

Put 400,000 baht in a bank account

O visa based on marriage

work permit is included.

is this correct Mike?? i have recently been issued a marriage visa (well extension of stay due to marriage to a thai citizen) and i am pretty sure i have not been issued a work permit..... what else did you need to do to get your work permit? was it difficult / time consuming / expensive?

[mike123ca]

First off, I'm married to a Thai.

We were living in South Korea and decided to move to Thailand.

No money in a Thai bank.

Applied for a multi- Non O visa "based on marriage"

came to Thailand found a job. The visa was acceptable so I went and applied for my work permit.

One year later. Put 400,000 baht in Thai bank account for 2 months.

After 2 months applied for an Extension of Stay "based on marriage"

Application was successful. When the the work permit was up for renewal, I

showed the new extension of stay. They extended my work permit.

[forumuser10]

By the amount of errors in your post, 10K a month, most Thais could write better.

Must of been hanging out with a bunch of geniuses....Though there are a few errors, in my 6 years living here I haven't come across a Thai who could come close to that level of writing.

Maybe you should stop dating bar girls, and move away from Isaan

[Pseudolus]

Too many factors to determine what you will get paid including but not limited to,

1. Are you chasing them for a job, or are they chasing you?
   
2. Does the role require specialist skills / market knowledge / experience or could any shmoe do the job (competition for the role)
   
3. What are you selling? What is the business model / product? Lots of quanity at low value? Single items of exceptionally high value? Is it account managing or selling
   

...list goes on.

Question - "how much would you like to be paid?"

Answer - "I am very motivated to find the right company and challenging position in which I can grow and become even more successful. If you can offer this, I'm sure any offer you make will be of an appropriate level"

Question - "Yes, but what were you thinking of in terms of numbers?"

Answer "My current salary is XYZ. I also have A B C in a package. Without knowing what package you offer, it's hard for me to tell you what the salary should be. What is the salary and package you are budgeted to pay?"

...this kind of answer. If you give a number first, it might be below what they were going to offer, you have just lost out. If you give a range ("ummm 100-150k") you will assume an offer of 125-135, they will assume you will accept 100k, less 10% assuming you weighted it a bit, so 90k. If you give a high ball number well above what you will accept, they might reject you out of hand as being to expensive.

[forumuser10]

I'm not sure if it's legal for A farang to have A sales position in thailand

Does not matter if they have darker or lighter skin, a foreigner

For the kind of job description you've just described, you'd be lucky to get a salary of 20,000 baht a month in Thailand, in other words about £403 a month at the current exchange rate. You'll be living in a dive apartment (i.e. single room with fan) and eating fried insects and Isaan sausages on the street. Nightlife, if you can afford it, will be a bottle of Siam Sato (27 baht) consumed in your miserable room or on the steps of a 7-11 store mixing with other foreign lost souls in Bangkok. Forget about Thai girls too. Any foreigner earning 20,000 baht a month will be considered a leper. Better stay at home. Your local McDonalds maybe has a vacancy, and at least at home you'll have access to decent infrastructure and free or subsidized health care.

Plenty of people I know earn around 20K and they are very happy and have a good life. They don't live in dives and don't eat insects. What's your problem?

Thai's or farangs?

I know a guy from the US who has a salary about that size, but he does not have white skin, nor is he Thai.

He is just a foreigner, but he does not insects either.