But Mary Kay Ash also wanted women to have the opportunity through her company to attain unlimited success. The Company has done this and more. She created this nontraditional employment opportunity specifically to allow women to set their own hours, to work around family and other commitments, to supplement other income or to be a primary income by itself. In addition, women didn't need formal education or work experience to be successful in Mary Kay. Ash awards her employees all along the way with bonuses and awards.
All advancements are merit based.
Over half of the national sales directors earn over a million dollars a year. Mary Kay Cosmetics is a Fortune 500 company with annual sales exceeding a billion dollars. Three times the company has been named one of the ten best companies in the country to work for. When her husband died in 1980 of cancer, Ash devoted her considerable speaking and fund raising skills to raising money for cancer research, and started the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, St. Paul Research Hospital has a wing named after her. Inc. PageWise makes no representations about the content published on this site.