The level of salaries of medical representatives in St. Petersburg and region in 2015

This review will be of interest to candidates for the post of medical representative looking for a vacancy in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. What rewards and experiences for the appropriate wage necessary.

Medical representative is engaged in the promotion of pharmaceutical company products, finding and attracting new customers. His ability to competently communicate with customers depends largely on the profitability of the company. Employers are ready to encourage a good specialist, because the profits it can bring in many times more the cost of his labor.

the Level of wages, medical representative depends on the experience, the characteristics of the tasks, areas of responsibility, activity, travel, sales, the type of promoted drugs (Rx, OTC) and the number of drugs on promotion, region of work, the level of the company.
Consider the level of salaries of medical representatives in St. Petersburg and region in 2015.

the Averagesalary of medical representatives no work experience is 50 000 rubles gross (excluding bonuses).

For professionals with work experience from 1 year, the average level may reach 57 000 rubles gross.

Experts with experience of 2 years can count on $ 63 000 rubles gross, while medical representatives with experience more than 3 years — 70 000 rubles gross.
These figures relate to Western companies.

If we talk about Russian companies, the situation is as follows: for beginning teachers 47 000 rubles gross, for candidates with work experience of 57 000 rubles gross.
Table 1 shows typical requirements of pharmaceutical companies to candidates. The more requirements, the higher, generally, the level of wages offered.

table 1. Compliance with the eligibility requirements and wages

in Addition to the formal requirements, the selection of staff much attention is paid to education, as a rule, preference is given to candidates with pharmaceutical or medical education. The company pay attention to the stability of the summary, the level of companies, in which he received the experience, the causes of the changes, the achievements of the candidate and his professional competence.

From the combination of all factors and the sum of the final salary which the company is ready to offer medical representative.

Ekaterina Tkachenko,

The recruiter,

Recruitment company AVICONN