*This could have been labelled Last Miss as NSA. Signing companies routinely follow up on signings and if they find you are bringing a child to signing you will be dropped.
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How many notaries make six figures (gross) in a year?? Let’s say a really busy notary makes $100,000 in eleven months. That’s $9,090 average per month every month! That’s $454 per day, every day! or roughly $150 for each signing on average. Possible, but not likely. Oh, sure, there’s gotta be some notaries that score $375 jobs, maybe even a lot of them. But, c’mon kids, there are very few $100k bonus babies out there. I’d sure like to hear from a few on this site.
In 2021 when interest was still at 3% I was grossing six grand a month easily. These days if I gross $3500 a month I feel super successful. I think five grand a month gross is a fair target. It’s like Gregory House says - everybody lies. But fees are so regional in nature. Someone in one area could regularly be getting $150 or more. But you really have to know your region. In a recent NNA Newsletter article it listed the top ten reasons a notary gets blacklisted. Accepting a job for one fee and then attempting to get paid more after accepting - if that’s a regular thing, a notary could find themselves without work. Negotiating counteroffers - you have to know your area. There are some areas notaries do NOT want to drive to in my area. I charge accordingly. I also have a published fees page posted on at least one platform. If you publish a fees page you have to stay in line with it. I never did believe the 100K number. But 60K gross is possible I think.
$60K a year for a good notary is certainly possible. That’s my target. Notaries that get the big fee (say, $300 or more per job) are usually getting that because they have to travel so far or there are so few notaries in the region. That’s not the case where I do business. I have thousands of notaries competing with me for the same jobs. A good fee is $150 and the average fee is about $75-80. I’ve found a way to make a profit on most of the orders I take (margin is about 70%). I also gross about $3,500 per month and I’m glad for it. Tough to do with so much competition. I’ve got my ways. . .
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