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Compensation & pay

Group volume (GV)

The combined volume of a participant and everyone in their downline.

Also: GV, organisational volume, organizational volume, OV

Group volume adds up the personal volume of a participant and their entire organisation, sometimes to a set depth or until a breakaway. Rank requirements are usually stated in GV, for example "5,000 GV with at least three legs".

GV rewards building a large organisation regardless of who the end customer is. Plans that count only sales to non-participant customers use a separate figure, often called customer volume.

A GV requirement that is far above what personal retail sales could produce tells you the rank depends on recruiting.