The whole pay structure, scenario by scenario.
Splits, the cap, fees, revenue share, and equity — every number that touches a REAL paycheck, in the order it actually hits. The structure shifts depending on who you are, so pick the scenario that fits and read the breakdown built for it.
No monthly fees. If you don’t sell, it costs you nothing.
The part-timer’s whole advantage at REAL is structural: there’s no desk fee draining you in the months you don’t close. You pay when you sell — and you still get the same 85/15 split, the same $12,000 cap, and the same equity and revenue share as a full-time producer.
The same split and cap — nothing owed in a slow month
You split 85/15 with REAL on every closing and cap at $12,000 a year, exactly like a full-time agent. At a few deals a year you’ll almost certainly never reach the cap — which means you simply pay 15% on the business you actually do, and nothing in the months you do nothing.
There’s no monthly desk fee and no monthly minimum. A brokerage that charges $150 a month bills you $1,800 a year whether you close zero deals or twenty; REAL’s cost tracks your activity, not the calendar. The high split and every equity path are yours on the same terms as a solo producer.
Per transaction, and it gets smaller, not bigger
You pay per transaction only when you close — there’s no monthly fee hiding in an autopay.
Once you cap, REAL charges per closing instead of a percentage. The fee starts at $285 a transaction and drops to $129 once you’ve paid $6,000 in post-cap fees for the year — that step-down is Elite status, and it rewards the high-volume back half of your year instead of punishing it.
On top of that there’s a roughly $40 broker-review charge per transaction, a $750 annual fee, and a one-time $249 sign-up in year one. That’s the full cost — and none of it grows just because you had a good year.
A residual on the agents you bring in
Open to you on the same terms as any full-time agent — bring in one person and you earn on their production.
When someone names you as the person who brought them to REAL, you earn 5% of REAL’s 15% on their production — paid out of REAL’s portion, not your 85% — five tiers deep. It isn’t a pyramid and it isn’t your job. It’s a residual on the referrals you were already making for free.
A single direct attract reaching roughly half their cap (~$40K GCI) is about $2,000 a year to you. Tiers two through five pay 4%, 3%, 2%, and 1%. Revenue share is not guaranteed, and it should never be the reason you move — but it’s real income on something you already do.
Six ways to earn stock
Part-time doesn’t mean second-class: the same six stock paths are available to you on the same terms.
When I owned a brokerage, an agent could give me 30% of their production for a decade and walk away owning nothing. That always sat wrong with me — the agent built the business and the owner kept the asset. REAL’s six stock paths are the structural answer to that.
These figures are illustrative — share awards are valued at $2.50/share for the example, actual REAX value moves with the market, and none of it is guaranteed. But it’s ownership in the company you produce for, not a perk on top of a split that takes from you forever.
The breakdown is the structure. The calculator is your math.
This page shows how the pieces fit together. The calculator runs your real GCI and commission-per-side against a traditional split — Year 1 and five-year cumulative, with no projection you can’t audit. The part-timer, producer, and top-producer math run there directly; the domestic-team and broker/owner cases each warrant a short conversation, because the inputs are specific to you.
Figures reflect REAL’s $12,000 individual cap (85/15 pre-cap split); post-cap transactions are $285 each until $6,000 in post-cap fees is paid, then $129 (Elite); $40/transaction CBR, $750 annual brokerage, $249 year-1 signup. Team caps are $6,000/member (standard) and $4,000/member (mega); a domestic team shares one $12,000 cap across a maximum of two related licensed members. Stock figures use REAL’s published equity schedule; share awards (150 at cap, 75 per attract) are valued at $2.50/share. All figures are illustrative — verify current structures with REAL before making brokerage decisions.
Effective September 1, 2026: the annual brokerage fee rises to $900 (taken as $300 from each of your first three transactions), the CBR rises to $50/transaction, the Elite Agent Production Award becomes $12K, and the Elite post-cap fee drops to $100. The figures above reflect current fees — these changes have not taken effect yet.