According to a survey of 1,758 real estate professionals conducted by ActiveRain, 22% of real estate agents earned less than $35,000 per year, and just 21% earned $100,000 or more. This is far from a ‘rich’ profession. We’ll define the “exceptions” as those real estate agents who earn $100,000 or more, which is roughly the upper 20% of realtors.

Agents who make six figures (or more) spend six times more on technology and ten times more on marketing efforts than their lower-income colleagues.