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Create an Instructor Team Revenue Share With Seniority-Weighted Splits

“How do I pay a lead instructor's teaching team a share of their course revenue, weighted by seniority?”

Siren runs an instructor team revenue share as a monthly pool: a slice of the revenue from the lead instructor's course products, divided down the teaching team so the most senior supporting instructor takes the largest cut.

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Teaching Team Revenue Pool

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Instructor Team Revenue Share Snapshot

A quick overview of who this program is for, what it tracks, which partners it rewards, and how Siren helps you manage it.

Best for	LifterLMS and LearnDash sites running a lead-and-team teaching model
Main goal	Pay supporting instructors a seniority-weighted share of course revenue
Partners involved	Supporting instructors ranked below the lead in a teaching chain
Actions tracked	courseCompleted events on courses the lead instructor teaches
Rewards supported	A share of the monthly revenue pool, weighted by chain layer
Starting point	Start free with Siren Lite

What This Recipe Does

This recipe pays a lead instructor’s teaching team a share of the revenue their courses bring in, and it does it automatically every month. You set aside a slice of the revenue from the lead instructor’s course products as a team pool. Each month, that pool is split among the supporting instructors on the team, with the most senior earning the biggest cut and each level down earning a little less.

It is built for course businesses where one senior instructor runs a flagship program and a handful of assistant or supporting instructors help make it happen. Instead of dividing revenue equally or tracking who gets what in a spreadsheet, this program rewards your team by seniority and pays everyone on schedule.

If you would rather pay every instructor purely on their own course sales with no team structure, the Instructor Revenue Share recipe does that instead. This one is for the lead-and-team model, where a senior instructor’s success is meant to lift the people who support them.

Who It’s For

Course business owners who run a flagship program under a lead instructor and want the supporting instructors on that team to share in its revenue
LifterLMS and LearnDash sites that want assistant instructors paid automatically off the lead’s course revenue, without hand-tracking splits
Education teams using a lead-and-staff model who want the most senior instructors to earn the largest share of shared revenue

How It Works

You decide what share of the lead instructor’s course revenue goes into a team pool. The default is 30 percent, and you can set it to whatever fits your business. The rest stays with you.

Two separate settings shape the payout. A product category filter on the pool decides which sales count as the revenue being shared, and course completions decide how that revenue divides among the team. The recipe ships with a placeholder category, so point the filter at the category holding the lead’s course products. Left unscoped, the pool would draw on every product and subscription sale in your store, not just the lead’s courses.

Each month, Siren builds a pool from your chosen share of the filtered revenue earned since the last payout. Every completion of the lead’s courses credits the team by seniority, with the most senior supporting instructor weighted highest and each level down weighted less. At payout time the pool is divided in proportion to those accumulated credits, so seniority sets the shape of the split. With the default weighting, the top supporting instructor is weighted twice the next and four times the third. You control how steep or flat that is.

You can pay up to five levels of supporting instructors below the lead, and you choose how many actually earn. This recipe pays the first three. Anyone past the levels you fund simply earns nothing on a given cycle until you decide to extend it. If a supporting instructor goes inactive, Siren skips them and they earn nothing, but nobody is promoted in their place. The rest of the team keeps their own seniority weights, and the pool divides among the points the active members earned, which is why each active share grows. When you want someone to genuinely move up, reorder the chain.

The lead instructor’s courses are what generate and trigger the pool, but the lead is not paid from it. This program is for rewarding the team behind the lead. If you also want to pay the lead their own share, run a second program alongside this one that pays them directly. Siren lets you run both at the same time.

Setting Up Your Team

Your teaching team is an ordered list, from the lead instructor at the top down through the supporting instructors. The order is what determines each person’s share, so the closer a supporting instructor sits to the lead, the more they earn.

After you apply the recipe, swap the example instructors for your own, set their order, and list the lead instructor as the educator on the courses you want feeding the program. From there you can adjust the revenue share and the seniority weighting to match how you want to pay your team. You can reorder people or add new members at any time, and the next payout reflects the change. The managing collaborators and configure cascade payouts guides cover building the team and tuning the per-level weighting.

One scoping rule matters here. The cascade starts from whichever chain member is listed as a completed course’s educator, and every course a chain member teaches counts. If a supporting instructor is an educator on a course of their own, its completions credit only the people below them in the chain. Keep the lead as the sole listed educator on tracked courses and the program behaves exactly as described above.

Payouts run on the first of each month, and the pool is your chosen share of the revenue your category filter matched since the last payout. You configure the distributor in your Siren admin, including the schedule, the share, and the filter, so you can tune the cadence, the size, and the scope of the pool.

For more background on how Siren shares revenue across a team, see what is a cascade, team structures, and the seniority-weighted payout strategy.

How the Instructor Team Revenue Share Works in Siren

1

Start with a ready-made program

One install creates the whole structure: a monthly distributor that pools a share of the revenue in a course product category you pick, a linear-chain collaborator group for the teaching team, and a downline cascade that scores each layer below the lead. Example instructors come pre-seeded so you can see the shape before swapping in your own roster.
2

Define partners and eligibility

Order the teaching team as a linear chain, with the lead instructor at position 1 and each supporting instructor below by seniority. Completions cascade down from whichever chain member teaches the completed course, so keep the lead as the sole listed educator on tracked courses. The lead never draws from this pool.
3

Set tracking rules

Each completion of a course the lead teaches fires the downline cascade, which walks the chain and credits each supporting instructor at their layer's point value. The defaults score 100, 50, and 25 points at layers one through three, and a zero at any layer stops the cascade there.
4

Customize rewards

The pool is a share of the revenue your category filter matched since the previous payout, 30 percent by default, and you tune the share, the filter, and the per-layer points. Steepen the points to concentrate pay at the top of the team, or flatten them for a more even split.
5

Manage approvals and payouts

On the first of each month, the distributor divides the pool in proportion to accumulated scores and records what each supporting instructor is owed. Refunded and cancelled sales are subtracted before the pool is built, and you review and pay from the Siren admin on your own schedule.

Watch a completion credit the teaching team

The teaching team exactly as the recipe configures it.

Each completion of a course Dr. Patel teaches relays credit down the chain, with the senior instructor earning double the points of the layer below. Points decide each instructor's slice of the monthly pool.

On the first of each month, 30% of the revenue matched by the pool's category filter funds the team pool, split in proportion to each instructor's accrued points.

Everything You Need to Build and Manage a Instructor Team Revenue Share

Siren gives you the tools to create the program structure, track the right actions, and reward the right partners, all from one flexible incentive program system.

Create

Prebuilt Instructor Team Revenue Share recipe
Custom program builder
Program-specific rules
Partner eligibility rules
Product and category filters
Multiple program support

Track and Manage

Referral link tracking
Coupon tracking
Product or category tracking
Lead, form, or signup tracking
Partner dashboard
Payout management

Reward

Percentage commissions
Flat-rate rewards
Recurring commissions
Royalties or revenue share
Tiered rewards
Performance bonuses

Why Use Siren for a Instructor Team Revenue Share?

Traditional revenue sharing software tools	Siren
Built for one program type	Built for multiple incentive programs
Often limited to one reward model	Supports commissions, bounties, royalties, revenue share, and bonuses
Rewards usually tied to one action	Rewards can be tied to different measurable actions
Harder to manage overlapping programs	Program groups and rules control how programs interact
May require multiple tools as you grow	Supports different partner programs from one system

Most revenue sharing software can split a pot evenly, but few tools model a chain where seniority sets the split and the trigger sits at the top. Siren treats this as one distributor inside a broader incentive program system, so paying the lead their own cut, or adding an affiliate track for the same courses, never takes a second tool.

Similar Programs, and When to Use Each

Recipes that share machinery with this one, the rule that actually separates them, and the situation where the other recipe is the better pick.

Program	How it differs	Use it instead when
Instructor Revenue Share	The Instructor Revenue Share has no chain at all: every instructor earns points from completions in their own bound courses, 10 for a completed course and 1 for each lesson, and the month's pool divides on those individual scores. In the Instructor Team Revenue Share, completions of the courses the lead teaches are what credit the supporting instructors arranged below that lead in the chain.	Use the Instructor Revenue Share when each teacher should earn purely on engagement with their own courses, with no lead-and-team structure.
Team Performance Bonus	The Team Performance Bonus swaps the trigger that drives the Instructor Team Revenue Share: a sales lead's coupon-tracked WooCommerce orders feed its downline cascade instead of course completions, and its default pool is a leaner 10% of qualifying revenue rather than 30%.	Go with the Team Performance Bonus if the chain holds sales reps on a WooCommerce store and orders through the lead's coupon should decide who shares the pool.

Connect Your Instructor Team Revenue Share to the Tools You Already Use

Siren works as the incentive layer behind the systems where partner-driven actions happen: your website, checkout, ecommerce store, forms, LMS platform, subscription flow, or custom workflow.

WordPress LifterLMS LearnDash REST API Custom workflows

Start Your Instructor Team Revenue Share for Free

Use Siren Lite to launch your first instructor team revenue share without paying upfront. Start with a real program, test your setup, and upgrade when you need more advanced partner management, reward logic, or attribution.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is an instructor team revenue share?

An instructor team revenue share sets aside a portion of a lead instructor's course revenue and splits it among the supporting instructors who help deliver the program. Rather than equal cuts or hand-tracked stipends, the split is weighted by seniority, so the instructor closest to the lead earns the most. The payout runs on a schedule instead of living in a spreadsheet.

Who should use an instructor team revenue share?

Course businesses where one senior instructor fronts a flagship program and a small team of assistant instructors keeps it running. If you're on LifterLMS or LearnDash and currently dividing team pay by hand each month, this model automates the split while keeping senior people on the larger share. If every teacher should earn purely on their own course sales instead, a per-instructor revenue share is the better fit.

Can I change how much revenue the team shares?

Yes. You set the share that funds the team each cycle and can adjust it at any time, and the pool's category filter decides which sales count toward it. Anywhere from a quarter to half of the filtered revenue is common for teaching teams. The rest stays with you.

Which sales actually fund the team pool?

The pool draws on the product line items matched by the distributor's category filter. The recipe ships a placeholder category, so swap in the category that holds the lead's course products before going live. Without a filter, every product and subscription sale on your store would feed the pool, not just course revenue.

Why do the most senior instructors earn more?

You decide how much weight each level of seniority carries, and the shared revenue is split in proportion to those weights. With the default settings, the most senior supporting instructor earns twice what the next one does and four times the third. You control the exact split, so you can make it as flat or as steep as you want.

Does the lead instructor get paid from this?

No. This program pays the supporting instructors on the lead's team. The lead's courses are what generate and trigger the shared revenue, but the lead is not paid from this particular pool. If you want to pay the lead their own share too, run a second program alongside this one that pays the lead directly. Siren lets you run both at once.

How deep can the team go?

You can pay up to five levels of supporting instructors below the lead, and you choose how many of those levels actually earn. The recipe pays the first three by default. Add more members to extend the team, and anyone past the levels you fund simply earns nothing until you decide to fund their level.

What happens when a supporting instructor goes inactive?

They earn nothing while inactive, and nobody moves up automatically. The rest of the team keeps their own seniority weights, and the pool divides among the points the active members earned, so each active instructor's dollar share grows. To actually promote someone, reorder the chain.

Do I need LifterLMS or LearnDash for this to work?

Yes. This program is built around course completions in your LMS, so you need LifterLMS or LearnDash installed and active for Siren to record the completions that set each instructor's share.

Which instructor sits at which level?

The lead instructor sits at the top of the chain. Their courses trigger the team payout, but the lead is not paid from this pool. The first supporting instructor below the lead is level one and earns the largest share, the next is level two, and so on down the team.

What if a supporting instructor teaches courses of their own?

Completions cascade down from whichever chain member is listed as the course's educator. If a supporting instructor teaches a course of their own, its completions credit the people below them in the chain rather than the full team. For the lead-and-team model to behave as described here, make the lead the only listed educator on the courses feeding this program.

How and when does the team get paid, and what about refunds?

The pool pays out on the schedule you set, monthly by default. Each instructor can see what they have earned in the collaborator dashboard, and you pay them from Siren on your own schedule. Refunded or cancelled sales are subtracted from the revenue before the pool pays, so the team shares only what actually stuck. See the how to pay collaborators and collaborator dashboard guides, linked below.

Which Siren plan do I need?

This recipe needs Siren Pro. The seniority-weighted team payouts it relies on are a Pro feature.

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