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    Quota Attainment

    By RepCard, built by field sales reps

    Quota attainment is the percentage of reps who hit their assigned quota in a given period, most commonly a quarter or a year. It is the single cleanest signal of a sales team's health. Healthy teams see 55% to 70% of reps at quota. Under 40% means something structural is broken: quota, territory, product, pay, or management.

    What Quota Attainment Actually Measures

    Three flavors: Rep-level attainment. What percentage of quota this individual rep delivered. Team-level attainment. What percentage of reps hit 100% of quota this period. Revenue-level attainment. Total team revenue as a percentage of total team quota. Each tells you something different. Track all three.

    Benchmarks by Sales Motion

    Inside sales AE (SMB): 55% to 65% of reps at quota annually. Outside field sales (home services): 50% to 65%. Enterprise AE: 45% to 60%. SDR/BDR: 60% to 75%. Below 40%, the quota is likely wrong or the business is broken. Above 80%, the quota is too low and top performers are leaving money on the table.

    Root Causes of Low Quota Attainment

    Quota set too high. Most common. Someone did a top-down revenue target divided by rep count and called it quota. Territory imbalance. A few reps get golden territories, most get dogs. Broken ramp. New hires never hit, dragging team numbers. Weak coaching. Mediocre reps stay mediocre because nobody coaches them up. Compensation misalignment. If the comp plan pays well under 100%, reps stop pushing for the full number. Product/market issues. The market shifted, the product lagged, the quota did not adjust.

    Raising Quota Attainment

    1. Get quota setting right. Bottom-up build based on territory potential, not top-down revenue wish. 2. Fix coaching cadence. Weekly 1:1s. Every rep. Every manager. Measure it. 3. Shorten ramp time. Every month faster on ramp is a month more of full-quota production. 4. Replace the bottom 10% annually. Functional turnover lifts the median. 5. Move comp plan accelerators so hitting 100%+ pays disproportionately well. Reps chase where the money sits.

    RepCard's Take

    "RepCard is the Sales Operating System with attainment visibility built in. Reps see their quota progress in real time on their phone. Managers see team attainment broken down by activity, pipeline, and close rate. Leaderboards turn attainment into competition. Coaching tools attach to the reps most at risk. All in one app."

    — Brad Mortensen, Founder & CEO, RepCard

    Frequently Asked Questions

    55% to 70% of reps at 100% of quota annually. Tie this to comp plan design so 60%+ attainers earn above-market OTE.

    In order of cause: unrealistic quota, weak coaching, bad territory, slow ramp, broken comp plan. Quota is almost always the first to audit.

    By tenure (ramp quota), yes. By territory potential, yes. By personal negotiation, no. The last one kills team trust.

    Annually with the comp plan. Mid-year only for major market or product changes.

    It is the best single metric. But pair it with ramp time, retention, and pipeline coverage for the full picture.

    See Every Rep's Quota Progress. In Real Time.

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