The Mary Kay Car Program
Written by L J on April 30, 2008 – 4:12 pm -Do Mary Kay consultants actually win free cars?
How much Mary Kay do you have to sell to get a pink Cadillac?
One of the most asked about, and most misunderstood, features of Mary Kay is the car program. Since the beginning of the company’s car program in 1969, Mary Kay claims that over 100,000 consultants have earned the use of a Mary Kay career car or taken the optional cash compensation.
Clearing Up A Few Misconceptions
First of all, in order to earn the use of a Mary Kay car, you have to build a team. That means you have to sign up others to sell Mary Kay as well.
And those people need to place a minimum amount of product orders with the company. These wholesale orders of you and your team members are called your “production”. To qualify for the car at the “Grand Achiever” level, a consultant must build their team to 12 members and have a minimum “production” of $18,000 within 4 months. That means your average monthly production is $4,500. You may only contribute $4,000 of the $18,000 toward the requirement.
You can get all the specifics in the Career Car Program Guidelines and the Career Car Specs documents, as well as all the other documents in our Car Program documents section.
So You Got the Car. Now What?
Once a consultant “wins” their car, they DO NOT own it, nor do they get to keep it unless they and their team maintain a specified level of production for every month that follows. Mary Kay actually calls the arrangement a “Co-op Lease”. Depending on the net production of your team, you will either owe $0 toward the lease of your car or the full amount of the lease agreement. And you have to do this for 24 months.
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May 28th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Oh yeah - the “free” car that I got asked to place an order for. Turns out the car “bank” got maxed out! What a rip! I make my car payments each month (non MK) - so can my Director!
July 18th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I have to go to work and I get paid for the work I do. When was the last time my job offered me a free car for doing my work? Plus paid for everything but 15% of my insurance.
July 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Mel, you apparently didn’t read the article.
The car isn’t free. If your unit doesn’t order enough Mary Kay products every month, you, as a director, are required to make a lease payment on the car. That payment varies depending on the inventory ordering level of your unit. Those lease payments are high too. If you went out and bought a Cadillac on your own, your lease payments would be much less, last time I checked.
They don’t pay everything but 15% of insurance. Mary Kay Corp does not pay for
It’s just like any car lease. Except the car may be pink and the lease payments are higher.
July 20th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
You are much better off taking the cash rather than the car. If your unit does not make quota, you get nothing but at least you don’t have to pay. You’re better off just buying a car. When you’re done making the payments at least you still have a car.
July 20th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I have relatives who work construction who drive “FREE” company trucks - with gas cards from their employers, insurance & maintenance paid by their employers! Those are FREE vehicles - for as long as they are employed, MK Cars are NOT!
August 19th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Don’t read some random article on the internet and think it gives you the entire picture!!
My mom has earned two cars with Mary Kay. Her first was a consultant car (before she became a director) and they paid her $375 per month cash because she had a car. After she became a director (in 2.5 years also working full time as a high school teacher!) she decided to take the next car she earned, which is a Saturn Vue. And believe me, it’s nice!
Mary Kay has the car system structured so that the requirements for car driving are set as a reward you earn while in a 4 month production period. They want to make sure you didn’t just do the production in too fast of a time, so that you can prove you will be more likely to keep up that production. It is rare that a Director EVER has to pay a car payment because #1 she’s worked hard to get to that level, so she’ll likely CONTINUE working hard. And #2 at that point she has established a stable business that will support keeping it.
Besides, if Mary Kay did NOT have limits… ok that’d just be dumb! They are a BUSINESS that REWARDS their people for HARD WORK! If you slack, then of course you won’t be able to keep the car! Duh.
Insurance: the amount varies. My father and myself are ALSO on her insurance, so she pays more than a consultant who listed only herself as the insured driver.
License plates: My mom’s car CAME with a lisence plate. Directors CHOOSE to get nice customized plates if they want to pay for it, but jeez, it’s not like the company requires it!
I have NEVER in my life seen a company who sincerely cared for their people more. I went to Dallas, toured their corporate offices AND the manufacturing facility. The employees are encouraged to follow the Golden Rule - to do onto others as you would have them do unto you. And the priorities are set, even there, as God first, Family second, Career third. Mary Kay Ash designed the company that way, and that is STILL how it is maintained even now!
As consultants we don’t steal each others customers, or try to poach team members from each other. I know there ARE consultants and directors out there who do choose to operate unethically, but they are few. This company is amazing, and I myself am working towards earning MY first Mary Kay car, and I will be VERY proud to drive it, and I’m proud of Mary Kay Cosmetics.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
OH! Plus, my mother, as a director NEVER asks her consultants to place orders so she can keep her car, or reach a goal, or ANYTHING like that! She doesn’t feel that’s right to place any pressure on her consultants for HER benefit. What I’ve seen her do is focus entirely on training them, helping teach them how to build a successful business the RIGHT way, and encourage them to reach their goals. If you’ve had a director pressure you to make an order that you couldn’t make, or something like that, then I apologize to you. And Mary Kay Ash would NOT promote ANY director doing that either. :( Read her Autobiography, or the new book The Mary Kay Way. Then you’ll get a TRUE understanding of the heart of our company and its Founder.