If you are weighing a move, run the question nobody puts on the recruiting flyer: once your loan funds, how long until the money is in your account?
At a lot of shops the honest answer is two weeks, sometimes a month, sometimes "next pay cycle" which is its own kind of answer. We have been hearing this from originators coming in the door: the file closed, the borrower is in the house, and the originator is still waiting to get paid.
Here the answer is 24 hours from funding.
Why the timeline matters more than the split
Everyone compares splits. Almost nobody compares cash flow, and cash flow is what you actually live on.
Say you fund four loans in a month at an average loan amount of $400,000, and your elected comp is 275 bps. That is 2.75 percent, which on $400,000 is $11,000 per loan in compensation before the transaction fee.
Our fee is a flat $695 per funded loan. So on that loan you keep $11,000 minus $695, which is $10,305. Across four loans that is $41,220 in a month.
The number on the page is one thing. When you can spend it is another. At a 30-day pay cycle, money you earned in the first week of October is money you cannot touch until November. At 24 hours, the file that funds Tuesday pays Wednesday.
What "24 hours" actually means
We want you to hold us to the exact mechanic, so here it is plainly. Payout runs off funding. Once the loan funds and the confirmation is in the system, the clock starts, and you are paid within 24 hours.
It does not run off a monthly calendar. It does not wait for a batch. It is not tiered by how much you did last quarter, because there are no tiers here.
And the comp that drives the payout is yours to elect. You set it, and you can change it quarterly. If you want to talk through how borrower-paid and lender-paid elections work alongside the flat fee, we walked through that in how a flat fee broker works with the LO comp rule.
The part slow-pay shops do not say out loud
There is a reason some shops with big marketing budgets are slow to pay. The money that funds the marketing and the slow payout cycle is often the same money: it comes out of originator compensation. They take more of your comp, they run on your float, and they market with the difference.
You can check that math on your own book. Look at what you produced last year, look at what you took home, and look at what the gap bought. If the gap bought you a faster platform or better support, fine. If it bought someone else's ad spend while you waited a month for your own closings, that is worth a second look.
If you are rebuilding for 2027
This is the time of year to decide what you want your business to look like next year. Onboarding here runs in 24 hours too, which means the file you are working now could close under your own economics instead of someone else's.
If you want to see what your last twelve months would have paid at a flat $695 and 100 percent of your elected comp, the Loan Officer Pay Raise Calculator does the arithmetic with your real numbers. When you are ready to talk specifics, the Interview Us questionnaire is the place to start. You are interviewing us as much as we are interviewing you.
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