How much do recruiters get typically from you/client?

[Zeze]

1. What's the typical margin- 15-20%? Let's say the firm pays me $50/hr to work for their client. What's the recruiter's firm actually charging the client- $60? $80?

2. What about a straight sign-on? If they found me a permanent position and it pays me $100k. How much is the recruiting firm making from it? Is it an one-time payment or recurring of sort?

Just curious about their industry as I get calls from them at least 2x a week.

 

[purbeast0]

depends on the industry. there was a thread about this recently actually. my company has internal recruiters now instead of hiring 3rd party ones.

 

[DesiPower]

There is no rule, it totally depends... some firm will do volume business others only high margin. Typically in my experience for a $50 job it will be $75 - 80. For higher paying jobs its different. Also depends on the duration, a 3 month job will require higher margin than a 6 month or 1 year job.

For a direct hire, its typically 3 month salary, sometimes even 4 or 6 month, sometimes even less than 3 months. I have not heard of a lumpsum, but its possible.

 

[Virge_]

Midwestern IT Recruitment firms (there are almost a dozen I can name offhand, so there are a LOT of them) generally have either 12 or 24 month conflict of interest periods, and during said periods roughly get paid 30% of your negotiated salary. If you are hired for 100k, over the course of the contract period the company gets paid in quarterly installments up to the maximum negotiated premium for your salary, in this case 30k broken up into either 4 or 8 quarterly payments. This is, subsequently, why they are incentivized to get you the highest salary they can.

This is specifically for IT. I can't speak to other fields.

 

[Zeze]

Bump for further input.