Synthes is offering huge guarantees for FA reps, is this because they are buying a FA company? Is it worth coming over??
They have had F&A reps in certain areas for a while now, at least 1-2 years. Do you like covering trauma cases ? Doing ankle fractures for $900? Synthes will always be a trauma company
If it’s a money grab, go for it. 300k+ is nothing to sneeze at. If it’s for a career, may want to think twice. They are hiring a lot of competitive reps who are not working out and then either having to dramatically reduce their pay, or cut into others comp to make it all work. The morale is crumbling.
I promise you there is no way in hell that J&J is offering/guaranteeing/paying $300k for a damn F&A job!! They are continually cutting comm. and not investing in R&D then are all of a sudden going to hire an entry level F&A job and pay them $300K?!?! Lay off the heroin, it's making you crazy...
No way in hell JnJ is offering $300k guarantee for a rep. Nice try. HR STILL trying to get everyone in pay grade 25 between $70k and $120k max.
Wrong.........in the Northeast, you can barely live comfortably on anything less than $110k/year. A colleague I have known for years was just offered something in the 2’s to come here
You think J&J gives a crap about you 'lively comfortably'? NO, they don't. The only way they would pay someone in the 200's is if they are bringing over $1M in business. Is it Possible? Could be. Likely? No! That would be the ONLY situation where they would pay someone that much for F&A.
shut up you twit. You clearly know nothing about the industry, market or going rates of what one is worth. You sound like a disgruntled millennial that is about to get put on a PIP if you’re not already. Carry on snowflake!
Nobody with any talent or skills in medical device would even consider working in foot and ankle sales. Bottom of the bottom in medical sales.
The same people talking crap about foot and Ankle reps are the same reps who weren't selling to those Dr's because they thought the cases billed out for nothing. Been doing F&A for a few years making $200k+ for a competitor and now synthes is offering me $300k+ to come over. Foot and Ankle isn't the bottom of the bottom. If play it the right way your done by 3pm and have weekends off. Have fun getting called at 230 in the morning on the weekend for a trauma case while I'm out having a great time.
I am just starting a foot and ankle distributorship because joints keep getting lower. Down too 4450 15%. Not enough cases though. But foot ankle is going to be 2000@ 30 %. Ton of growth potential. Kind of a no brainer.
I have been in F&A for 8 years. Unless you are in a major city , there will only be 5-10 big cutters with recon cases that bill out for at least 5k and they are not doing 6 a day unlike THA/ TKA. Sometime it’s a 2 hour case for $800. The grass is not always greener. Stryker , Synthes, etc are bundleing their Foot and ankle plates and screws into trauma contracts . So that means big discounts .
