doTerra income Disclosure
It’s been a while since we first wrote our doTerra review. Our original post found that 99% of doTerra advocates earned less than $200 per week in commission. If we had included expenses, we would’ve probably have found that most doTerra Advocates lose money.
Given that some time has passed, we thought we’d give doTerra a chance to redeem themselves, so we decided to take a closer look at their annual doTerra Income Disclosure.
It comes as no surprise at all that doTerra has done their best to give us as little information as possible in their income disclosure. After all when they did provide better information, we saw that 84% of doTerra Advocates earned nothing.
In true MLM tradition, they use most of their income disclosure document to tell us how to join, or how we can earn money with doTerra. Turns out that even with their best efforts, the earnings aren’t very good.
doTerra has only given us a very limited earnings summary, based on monthly earnings, shown in the table below:
Before we look at the table, let’s consider the line above it (not shown in image). They tell us that in a typical month, 389,975 advocates ordered product from doTerra. It was also typical for 152,069 of them to ‘earn a commission’. Doing some math we find that in a typical month, 61% of doTerra Advocates earn nothing.
Let’s not forget, that these figures only include those doTerra huns who ordered product in a given month.. It’s likely that if we included the huns, we’d find that over 80% of doTerra Advocates make no commission.
The table above only represents the Advocates who both ordered product and earned commission in a typical month. In other words, it looks like, doTerra is only showing earnings for the top 20% of all Advocates.
If we play along and look only look at the numbers they gave us, it’s still not a pretty picture. For example, only 10% of huns earned more than $1,260 per month. That works out to $15,120 a year. In other words 90% of active doTerra Advocates made much less than minimum wage.
Let’s not forget that there is a difference between income and profit. The commissions shown don’t include expenses. If we were to look at all the costs and time incurred in buying product, and promoting the opportunity, we’d expect to find that most huns are losing money with doTerra.
If you are considering joining doTerra, or any other MLM, we strongly suggest that you examine all your options before spending any money. After all the only thing we’ve seen from MLM ‘opportunities’, is that they make you a customer for expensive products you never even knew you wanted.
For posts like this check out our list of MLM Income Disclosure Statements. If you notice one that you think should be added to the list, let us know and we’ll do our best.