Measuring Salespeople Performance

Scenario: You are employed as a statistician for a company that makes household products, which are sold by part-time salespeople who work during their spare time. The company has four salespeople employed in a small town. Let us denote these salespeople by A, B, C, and D. The sales records (in dollars) for the past 6 weeks for these four salespeople are shown in the table below.

Week	A	B	C	D
1	1774	2205	1330	1402
2	1808	1507	1295	1665
3	1890	2352	1502	1530
4	1932	1939	1104	1826
5	1855	2052	1189	1703
6	1726	1630	1441	1498

Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a brief report comparing the sales volumes and the consistency of sales of these four salespeople.

• Use the mean sales for each salesperson to compare the sales volumes.

Choose an appropriate statistical measure to compare the consistency of sales.

Make the calculations on the Microsoft^® Excel^® file

“Measuring Salespeople Performance Template,” and write a report of 350 words comparing the sales volumes and the consistency of sales of these four salespeople.