How much can you earn? Here is the honest arithmetic.
Three numbers decide it: the commission each campaign states per confirmed sale, the sales your customers confirm, and the hours you choose to work. Nobody here will quote you a typical figure, because we have not published one we can substantiate. What we can give you is the arithmetic, the benchmark to judge it against, and the standard any real figure must meet before it appears on this site.
Three variables, none of them ours to promise
The commission
Set by the brand, per campaign, and printed in the terms before you accept. Higher-commission campaigns exist because harder products pay more for the people who can sell them.
Confirmed sales
A sale counts when the customer confirms it by SMS and it survives the cooling-off period. Your close rate is a skill, and the free training exists to move it.
Your hours
Nobody assigns you a shift. Below roughly five hours a week the practice never compounds, which is the honest floor for taking any of this seriously.
Run your own numbers
Change every input; they are yours, not ours. The effective per-hour row is the one to be honest about.
Benchmark for the last row yourself: the UK National Living Wage, 21 and over, from April 2026 is £12.71 an hour (current rates at gov.uk). If your honest per-hour estimate lands below it, commission-only is the wrong track for you right now; the salaried track, which guarantees a minimum for hours worked, exists for exactly that case.
This is arithmetic on your own assumptions, not a promise, a forecast or a typical result. Commission-only pays per verified sale: a week with no confirmed sales pays nothing. Results are gross; you are self-employed and settle your own tax.
Commission-only is not the only arrangement
Commission-only pays a fixed amount per verified sale, nothing in between, and suits sellers who have carried a target. The salaried track guarantees a minimum for the hours you work, with commission on top, and exists for people newer to phone sales who need a floor while they learn. Which arrangement a campaign offers is stated in its terms; the comparison page scores the trade-offs honestly, and salary wins four of the seven rows.
The standard a real number has to meet first
UK advertising rules require earnings claims to be representative and substantiated, median-led rather than cherry-picked, with commission-only status made clear. We hold ourselves to that standard before the regulator has to: until a figure can be published with its full basis, sample and the share who earned nothing, no figure is published at all. The methodology page sets out exactly what any future number will mean.
Asked, and answered without a sales pitch
How much can I earn selling by phone here?
It depends on three numbers: the commission per confirmed sale, which each campaign states before you accept it, how many sales the customers confirm, and the hours you put in. We publish no typical figure, because we will not print a number we cannot substantiate; the calculator on this page does the arithmetic on your own assumptions.
Is there a minimum income on commission-only?
No. Commission-only pays a fixed amount per verified sale and nothing in between, so a week with no confirmed sales pays nothing. Some campaigns carry a salaried track instead, which guarantees a minimum for the hours you work, with commission on top.
Do I earn anything in a week with no sales?
On commission-only, no, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something. On the salaried track you are paid the guaranteed minimum for the hours you worked.
Where does the commission amount come from?
From the campaign. The brand sets the commission per confirmed sale and it is printed in the campaign terms before you accept anything. A sale counts once the customer confirms it by SMS and the cooling-off period ends.
The only real answer is your own first month
Applying is free, brands match on the experience you already have, and the campaign terms state the commission before you accept anything.