OK, here's the commissions data from my experience from 1979 up to recent times:
Sales staff in orgs and Sea Org orgs (not positive about Missions) did not receive commissions on training and auditing sales. If the public had a field staff member, then the FSM got 10%.
There's more, so let's use an example at Flag.
A guy goes to a Flag World Tour event, say in Mountain View, CA. He has an FSM - let's call him "Steve Besio"
who "glombed onto him" while he was receiving auditing at MtnVw. So the FSM and the Flag World Tour get on the guy that night and pulverize him to the point he realizes that he should go to Flag for his "Advance Program" and OT levels. So the guy pays $100,000.00 (routine).
The FSM doesn't get paid until the guy arrives to FSO. In the 80's and into the 90's, the FSO would get 10% the week the guy arrived, was accepted through Ethics & the HGC.
If the guy was not accepted and had to be sent away for various A-J reasons, then the "Fruit Plate Wars" erupted. I covered this earler on this thread.
But our guy got in. So the FSM got a check for $10,000.00. The Flag World Tour registrar got $0.00. What he did recieve was a ration of shit from his superiors who have been monitering his every move by phone all day and all night long (even while he's in the middle of talking to our Guy) with inval and eval and push and shit - typical SO/Staff shit.
Meanwhile, now that the guy is in the FSO and on-lines, "getting wins" the fun begins and the finances start to get really wacky - aside from the fact that the guy has been milked for "a couple hunge".
The guy now gets endlessly pulverized with briefings about:
L's
OT 8&9
His "Technical Estimate" has now been determined through testing and interviews which is invaribly for more intensives than he bought in advance.
So now it's the FSO Dept. 6 regges at work. If the guy can get his hands on another "couple hunge", his eternity will be guaranteed. So the guy pays. The FSO regges get $0.00 and the FSM get's the 10% when the guy starts these services.
The guy now gets endlessly pulverized with briefings about:
TWTH
Planetary Dissemination (Libraries)
IAS
Super Power
Each and every one of these can easily turn into a "couple hunge" more - either all at once or bits at a time, based on the guy's access to cash, credit, etc.
But the IAS and Super Power requires new money. That's not the case with TWTH and Planetary Dissem. People's FSO accounts can and are debited for books and book campaign donations and that's where the commissions come in for the staff.
So now it's 1:30am on Thursday morning in the 80's and 90's and beyond at Flag and our guy is has been receiving his confidential briefing regarding conditions on this planet (all bad) and what the SO is doing about it RIGHT NOW. The briefing has gone on for a couple of hours or more, so now it's time to donate - perhaps a "couple hunge"? He finally says no a bunch of times and probably feels "more at cause" because he can say no (a common Success Story by the way
). Anyway, he's finally forced to say no so many times that he becomes emphatic about it all............and then the trap is sprung!
No problem Guy, you can contribute to the campaign by donating off your account! - and just like that, easy-peasy, the guy, with little or no strugle, donates away the L's package, because hey with that new TE and advanced program he just started, he can't do the L's for a long time anyway and he's going home in a few weeks in super dooper shape and he can mock up that Ls package again before he'll ever need it, won't he? Of course he will!
So now the regges receive a book commission that has ranged over the years from 5% - 15%. Call it 10% for lutz. So there's 4 or 5 grand getting spread around inside the FSO. Often it was to the very reg who just had sold them the L's package to secure their OT Powers into eternity.
But what about the FSM you say? If the FSM had been paid on the whole package when the guy arrived as was done for many years, then the FSM gets billed for the "over payment".
A corps of "Book Regges" sprung up consisting of mostly SO members and some non-SO members and some FSMs too that just worked on "Big Book Deals" at Flag, other SO service orgs and at least on an occasional basis, visits to Cl 5 Orgs too.
It consisted of debiting people's accounts for books. The service orgs could complain all they wanted, but interference was run from the higest levels, ASI, CMOI, RTC, whatever.
Why?
Because of the "ROYS" - royalties on the books.
In Guy's case above - let's say he debied $50,000.00 off his FSO service account for the books. That $50,000.00 is taken from THIS weeks GI and transferred to the book account of the FSO. The book account pays the wholesale cost of the books and the "distribution fees" (the money used to mail out TWTH or books to libraries in order to undermine the Psychs or whatever) to Bridge or NEP. It also pays out the book commission to the regges. When BPI and NEP get the money (in Bridge's case by 2:00pm PST (three hours after 2:00pmEST at Flag), they immediatly (by 5:00pm PST) cut a check to ASI for the royalties.
So LRH got his money washed!
Anyway, the greatest book commissions ever earned that I know of was Dick Story, a TWTH reg at Flag - now posted as a Dept 6 Body Reg. In either '85 or '86 he "earned" over $250,000.00 in book commissions. But he ran his whole operation (phone bills, rent to Flag Crew for a double cabana, fruit plates, etc.) with that. And he got regged too! Directly by ASI, so no vias - more money for Source! Not withstanding a nice car he bought, there wasn't much to show for it - coffee, cigs and slightly better dress blues that most.
By the way, the FSM commissions system and administration was always very strained with angry FSMs pissed off at regges for the debits, etc. Of course that never helped the FSms, because if they wern't such a mamby-pamby dillitante, they'd be in the SO and putting their own shoulder to the wheel, so LRH can wear those giant boots in the sky!
Later in the '90s or 00's the FSM system changed so that the FSM was paid for each intensive or individual course after it was started rather than on the whole package at first start. The FSMs became less in debt to the orgs, but their public were not safe from the debits and still are not.
Enough for now.