Questions about marxist class definitions

[Stalin Ate My Homework]

A couple of questions have troubled me lately regarding the class analysis of bankers and salaried workers who earn commission.

For example, A sales worker who is salaried but earns commission doesn't resort to widescale labor exploitation or own the means of production but does still own it's own labor to some extent. They seem closer to proletarian than petit-beorgois but they don't fit neatly into either. Where do they belong?

The same question goes for Bankers. Not those working at desks in your local branch but those in management roles earning huge sums of money in salaries and bonuses. They seem to be fundamentally harmful to society but can they be considered beorgois if they don't the banks? Surely they are not proletatian or even petit beorgois so where do they belong?

Thanks in advance. :)

[Broletariat]

Class is not a category meant to be applied in this specific of an individual case. It's more of a general category meant to apply, especially in cases of revolutionary struggle.

[Book O'Dead]

For most socialist a person's class can be determined based on their ownership or non-ownership relation to the means of production, profit, wages, etc.

A distinction exists between category and class.

[Stalin Ate My Homework]

So are you suggesting Marx's class analysis was an observation of society rather than a means of 'market' segmentation?