You could write an IF statement, for example:-

=if(A150,20%,if(A160,30%,if(A170,40%,0)))

This formula is calculating sales (in this case, in cell A1). This would
give 20% to sales over 50, 30% to sales over 60 and 40% to sales over 70.
Anybody who doesn't earn anything, would get zero.

If you have more than 7 'levels', you would be better using a VLookUp Table.

HTH

Louise

"Newbie99" wrote:

ok, here's the scenario:

Column A = number of sales
Column B = gross per sale

depending on number of sales, the percentage of commission increases (i.e.
10 sales = 30% commission, 20 sales = 40% commission) I want to be able to
plug numbers in the columns and have my commission be totalled at the cell I
have designated.

If someone could show me how to do it I would greatly appreciate it.

thanks