100% Commission

Associate/Partner Compensation

Keller Williams has an incredible commission split that actually allows agents to earn more than 100% of their commissions.  How is this possible?  It is possible through profit share and our capped commission structure.  Approximately 48% of all profit is given back each month to the agents who helped grow the company, while the owners receive 52% of the profit.

In fact, in 2015 $113,700,000 of profit share was paid to our KW associate partners.  Last year, Jimmy and Linda McKissack of Texas earned over $1,000,000 in profit share!  Since the program was created in 1997, over $675,000,000 has been distributed back to KW agents.

The McKissacks are proof positive of the power of profit share.  They obviously earned far above the commission split that was paid to their broker.  There are many thousands of KW associates who profit share each and every month.  In fact, hundreds of agents continue to be paid through the profit share system even though they are no longer with KW or even when they are no longer selling real estate.

The commission split at KW is the best in the industry, even if the profit share system were not in the equation.  KW believes in having a partnership with the associates and has created the “capped” commission model.  In doing so, KW has devised a low risk, high reward split that minimizes risk while allowing the agent to retain the lion’s share of the commission.  Every agent at KW has the opportunity to enjoy a 100% split on their transaction commissions after reaching their “cap.”  

There is a fixed, maximum, amount that every KW associate pays as a split and every agent in any given Market Center pays the same amount.  This maximum is the “cap.”  Once it is reached, all commissions earned by the KW associate during the remainder of their fiscal year with KW will be paid at 100%!  The beauty of this system is that the entire amount is only paid once it is earned, thus low risk.  Because it is capped, it is high reward.  Some agents cap in the first 2-3 months of their fiscal year and earn many months of commissions at 100%.  Please note that how quickly an agent caps will be entirely dependent on how well they run their business.