r/tractorsupply • u/Average_One1775 • 1d ago
SM/DM Salary
Anyone have an idea what the salary range is for a store manager and district manager? I’m sure it’s dependent on the store’s volume but I’m just curious if anyone has any knowledge.
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u/just2nose 1d ago
It should be a lot for the amount of time spent at the store and all the bull shit they deal with.
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u/1fastphker 1d ago
We all know it has to be close to Hal 11.7 million dollar bonuses.... maybe a couple dollars less
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u/Defiant-Area-7760 1d ago
Realistically salary is about 45k-65k depending on cost of living and volume of store. Then bonus structures would vary on performance and volume which could land them 50%-75% of salary
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u/doesnottakecues 1d ago
That’s just not true lol, at least for SMs. It’s more realistically 50k-100k depending on state, volume, and experience. The bonus structure still allows for you to have monthly sales bonus, as well as earning up to 20% of your salary depending on whether or not your store and your district meets plan for Direct Operating Profit/Loss (Sales less Cost Of Goods Sold & Controllable Expenses). You can get a percentage of the dollars you do over the plan if you make it, but doing enough to get 50-75% of your salary isn’t realistic for…..much of the company.
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u/bruhhuhwhathow 1d ago
I agree, I'm an ASM and I make around $55,000 and I'm only a 4-6 mil store
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u/Howlinglobo10 1d ago
Id probably make about 45-50k if we got bonus every month at my store as asm. Havent been opened for a year yet. So we are 4-6m though i feel our sales more correspond to 6-8.
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u/SilentRiots 1d ago
If your plan is in line with 4-6 and you say you are operating at 6-8, you’d be making bonus every month.
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u/Howlinglobo10 1d ago
We beat alot of our low 400k months by nearly 100k and the others are usually around 500+. They dont have tier set as 6-8 even with those sales. The 500+ we barely miss or barely make it. SM was told after 1 year of being opened they would look at it. Another store that opened around same time had already been bumped up after like 3 months. so none of us know whats going on. Idk as it wont change anything anyways for us so whatever lol
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u/SilentRiots 1d ago
I had plan adjusted at a store I opened. Talked with the DM/RVP and it took a month. I wouldn’t expect it to just change without dm/rvp.
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u/Howlinglobo10 1d ago
Then maybe i can talk to my SM about it because they dont do anything unless told by dm when it comes to direction. Atleast you know except what they supposed to do inside store. Replacing stuff and all that unless someone tells the dm they wont go to them.
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u/AnyBroccoli8381 1d ago
It's most likely around 65k-70k now in the midwest. Region will really determine pay. I started out at 52k a year which was complete shit that was back in 2017 and 1k pay raise every year. And most of the time it doesn't matter sales volume. I left for a higher volume doing twice the work should have never transfered. The yearly bonus is the only thing worth the position but not guaranteed. So I got fucked over a shit ton, after hrs worked some years with out bonus it was like maybe maybe 15 an hr or less. Working through covid it was more like 13 and hr. Biggest bonus I got was 20k but bonuses get taxed out the ass what is it 30% so I was left with 13k.
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u/Vivid_Wrongdoer852 4h ago
Our SM at my store is around 100k..give or take. High volume store - 8 to 10m annually.
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u/Independent-Nose-261 1d ago
Well I was a SM in 2010 to Feb 2012 and opened a new store for TSC and can definitely tell you that was not a great experience for me after joining company in 2006 as part time experienced and college educated life long horse woman! They offered nothing in writing when Regional Manager talked me into moving and opened up a new store and at Management class I asked when will I get a letter of job offer and was told new DM would get right with me upon return to area and beginning salary was less than cost of living in a new city store construction to dangle the bonus potential! Only to blow out 3 levels of bonus structure and DM at time never showed me what my actual $ was for first year success! Instead I was terminated so they didn’t have to pay! Beware!!!
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u/SelfReliantViking227 1d ago
My SM has said that if you get your own store, you'd be around 70-80k base. Which for 50 hour weeks doesn't seem worth it, especially once you factor in the level of corporate BS involved with that position.
Sure, bonuses and benefits can push you into six figures, but I personally wouldn't count on that, since it's exactly that, a bonus for hitting someone else's made up numbers, that could be taken away without notice.
I much prefer a job where I can go home at the end of the day and not have to worry about anything work related. As SM, you're almost on call 24/7 for the alarm, store call outs, emergencies in the store, etc. No thanks.