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    So our owner made up a new way to do commissions, and it's taking me four days to manually calculate them and to be honest, I'm so afraid of human error, it's going to catch up at some point, so I'm hoping there is some sort of formula that can help!

    Our sales team gets a percentage based off the profit margin range, and I need a formula that can meet 8 conditions - which is where the "IF" conditions fail me.

    Basically all my "IF's" are:
    0-4 = 0%
    5-10 = 5%
    11-15 = 7%
    16-19 = 9%
    20-23 = 10%
    24-27 = 11%
    28-33 = 13%
    34-37 = 14%
    38-100 = 21%

    And that percentage times another field yields their commission.

    Help please??

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    Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    To get %:

    =LOOKUP(A1,{0,5,11,16,20,24,28,34,38},{0,5,7,9,10,11,13,14,21})/100

    with A1 is profit.
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    Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    I created a video for creating sliding rate commission calculator, hopefully you can make it work for you

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaYjvE0OiDM

    http://www.easyexcelanswers.com

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    Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    A lookup table is the best option.

    Look at VLOOKUP function

    Table with 0,5,11,16 etc in column A with % in B (0,5,7 ...)

    +VLOOKUP(D1,$A$1:$B$9,2,1) D1 profit margin

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    Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    With values in column A, enter this in column B formatted as %
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    Using a table for VLOOKUP in $F$1:$F$9
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    A
    B
    C
    D
    E
    F
    G
    1
    1
    0.00%
    0.00%
    0
    0%
    2
    10
    5.00%
    5.00%
    5
    5%
    3
    15
    7.00%
    7.00%
    11
    7%
    4
    20
    10.00%
    10.00%
    16
    9%
    5
    25
    11.00%
    11.00%
    20
    10%
    6
    30
    13.00%
    13.00%
    24
    11%
    7
    35
    14.00%
    14.00%
    28
    13%
    8
    40
    21.00%
    21.00%
    34
    14%
    9
    45
    21.00%
    21.00%
    38
    21%
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    Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    bebo021999, I was feeling AWESOME! that formula was good -- THEN I realized it didn't take into account rounding. For example, the report gave me 15.7333333 and when I "decrease decimal" so that a whole number shows, it calculated 7% for 15 instead of 9% for rounding up to 16.

    Any ideas?

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    Red face Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    I was feeling AWESOME! that formula was good -- THEN I realized it didn't take into account rounding. For example, the report gave me 15.7333333 converted into Excel, and when I use the "decrease decimal" icon so that a whole number (rounded up) shows, it calculated 7% for 15 instead of 9% for rounding up to 16.

    Any ideas?

    PS: Thanks for the quick and super simple formula! If I can get the rounding corrected, I'll be Golden!!!

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    Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    What I gave you (both examples) in msg#5 don't round.

    What rounding are you doing? I don't see any reason to do rounding in the problem that you posed.

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    Re: Formula to Calculate Scale of Commissions

    Eeep! I figured it out.

    To explain, the database generates a report that I past into excel. So my numbers look more like this:

    15.73333
    19.81552
    20.77781
    30.67675
    37.79472

    I use the "decrease decimal" icon under the "Number" tab in the ribbon until I get a clean, rounded value, ie:

    round to 16
    round to 20
    round to 21
    round to 31
    round to 38

    The lookup formula I'm using =LOOKUP(I9,{0,5,11,16,20,24,28,34,38},{0,5,7,9,10,11,13,14,21})/100 was calculating the percentages for:

    15 (instead of 16)
    19 (instead of 20)
    20 (instead of 21)
    30 (instead of 31)
    37 (instead of 38)

    So I changed the formula to:
    =LOOKUP(I9,{0,4.49,10.49,15.49,19.49,23.49,27.49,33.49,37.49},{0,5,7,9,10,11,13,14,21})/100

    It's working perfectly!!!

    Thanks to ALL of you for being so quick and helpful!

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