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Amway will pay $225 million, the largest amount the FTC has ever recovered from a multilevel marketing company. The complaint's key number is smaller: in 2023 the median Amway distributor's bonus was $139 before expenses.
The Federal Trade Commission and the State of Washington filed a complaint and a stipulated order against Amway and two of its largest training organisations, World Wide Group and Leadership Team Development, on September 17. The $225 million settlement is, in the FTC's words, the largest monetary recovery it has obtained against a multilevel marketing company. The complaint says recruits were told they could earn $40,000 a year and were pushed to buy products they were unlikely to resell. Figures in the complaint show that about 1 percent of more than 241,000 distributors made $40,000 or more in bonuses in 2023 and that the median bonus was $139. The order is not yet final: a federal judge in Seattle must sign it. The defendants neither admit nor deny the allegations. Redress details have not been announced, and no one needs to file anything yet.
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