Rank

Ranks are the ladder of a compensation plan: Associate, Director, Diamond and so on. Each rank has requirements, typically personal volume, group volume and a number of qualified legs, and each unlocks deeper or larger commissions.

Ranks are also how income disclosures are usually presented. Because most participants never leave the first rank or two, a table of "average income by rank" makes the higher rows look more typical than they are. The share of all participants at each rank is the number to look for.