Catch up commission plan - need help with the formula

theduchess1977

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Hi
I am trying to write a commission plan based around EBITDA targets which is paid quarterly to staff members based on a percentage of their salary.
The company needs to hit a target of 85% of budgeted EBITDA for staff to start receiving a tiered commission, the higher the result the higher the commission. The issue I am having is that we also have a catch up commission, if we failt to hit target in quarter 1 but we hit YTD target for quarter 2 then staff will receive the commission in that quarter x 2 as they would receive the percentage for both quarter 1 and quarter 2. But if we hit target in quarter 1 and then are running at a higher percentage in quarter 2 they would only receive that higher percentage for quarter 2 as they already received a commission for quarter 1. This would progress throughout the year, i.e. hit target quarter 1, miss targets for Quarters 2-3 but hit targets for quarter 4 so would have a catch up commission paid for the previous two quarters.
Does anyone know how I could write this as a formula? Any help appreciated!
Annual Salary
£40,000.00​
Target
125%​
110%​
100%​
90%​
85%​
Bonus
25%​
20%​
15%​
10%​
5%​
Yr Bonus
£10,000.00​
£8,000.00​
£6,000.00​
£4,000.00​
£2,000.00​
Quarter Bonus
£2,500.00​
£2,000.00​
£1,500.00​
£1,000.00​
£500.00​
EBITDA Target
Q1Q1 TotalQ2Q2 YTD TotalQ3Q3 YTD TotalQ42024 Total
Target
£500,000.00​
£500,000.00​
£500,000.00​
£1,000,000.00​
£500,000.00​
£1,500,000.00​
£500,000.00​
£2,000,000.00​
Actual
£415,000.00​
£415,000.00​
£800,000.00​
£1,215,000.00​
£580,000.00​
£1,795,000.00​
£425,000.00​
£2,220,000.00​
Percentage of Target
80.00%​
121.50%​
116.00%​
111.00%​
Commssion due
£-​
£4,000.00​
£2,000.00​
£2,000.00​
 

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Something like this perhaps?

ABCDEFGHI
1Annual Salary$40,000Bonus
200%
385%5%
490%10%
5100%15%
6110%20%
7125%25%
8
9Q1Q1 TotalQ2Q2 YTDQ3Q3 YTDQ42024 Total
10Target$500,000$500,000$500,000$1,000,000$500,000$1,500,000$500,000$2,000,000
11Actual$415,000$415,000$800,000$1,215,000$580,000$1,795,000$425,000$2,220,000
12
13Qtr% TargetBonus
14183.0%$0
152121.5%$4,000
163119.7%$2,000
174111.0%$2,000
18
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C10:C11C10=B10
E10:E11,I10:I11,G10:G11E10=SUM(C10:D10)
D14D14=C11/C10
E14:E17E14=MAX(0,VLOOKUP(D14,Bonus,2)*Salary*C14/4-SUM(E$13:E13))
D15D15=E11/E10
D16D16=G11/G10
D17D17=I11/I10
Named Ranges
NameRefers ToCells
Bonus=Sheet3!$D$2:$E$7E14:E17
Salary=Sheet3!$B$1E14:E17
 
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