Beer Industry Question???

Does anyone know what brewery reps or brewery regional manager generally start out earning with marketing/sales experience but not in the beer industry?

Also what’s the earnings potential once established?

Thanks for your help

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If you’re looking for money, you’re probably looking in the wrong place. Most breweries that aren’t giant don’t have much extra to spend on reps compared to other industries.

For sure - I was wondering more on the medium scale for some of the bigger craft breweries who are inevitably expanding into new markets.

Hi $20’s to low $40’s is about the best you can hope for

Originally posted by brewtopian
Hi $20’s to low $40’s is about the best you can hope for

per hour or grand per year

20k-40k a year.

It is not a well paying job and involves a lot of hard work.

You don’t go into this business to get rich you go into it because you love it. If you want to make a lot of money selling something go to Pharma. If you want to love what you do sell beer.

Originally posted by Cletus
20k-40k a year.

It is not a well paying job and involves a lot of hard work.

This is about right I think. And beyond that, you will likely use your own vehicle and the weekly/monthly vehicle allowance probably wont cover gas and maintenance/repairs or even just gas in many cases. And dont forget depreciation after racking up loads of mileage.

I sent you a PM.

As for the vehicle allowance not even covering gas, unless it is your brother’s brewery or something, I disagree that that is common, and even if that’s the case at some jobs, I’m not sure why anyone would take that job. Sure, the brewing business will not get you rich, but it certainly won’t and shouldn’t leave you starving and working for nothing but love of beer either.

It’s a lot of hard work, the place I work tends to attract a lot of distributors/industry folks for drinks after hours, so I’ve had a chance to talk to a lot of folks like this. I’ll say this... I don’t envy them but they do seem like a pretty happy bunch, so... maybe it’s a satisfying job to some degree?

Right on! Thanks for the input.