Agency recruitment
Total one-time fee
- Fee per hire
- Selected fee rate
Calculated as a percentage of annual gross pay. This example is not a quotation; pricing and scope require a separate agreement.
Hiring cost estimator.
Build a recruitment budget from your own assumptions. Compare an illustrative agency fee with allocated internal costs, then view each scenario beside employee gross pay over one, two and three years.
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Internal recruitment
Estimated total hiring cost
- Estimated cost per hire
Allocated recruiter employment costs, tools, advertising and any other costs you enter.
Total difference
What goes into your internal estimate
- Recruiter employment cost per year
- Recruiter salary and payroll allocation per hire
- Tools allocation per hire
- Paid advertising per hire
- Other internal costs per hire
Annual recruiter and tools costs are divided by expected successful hires.
Your actual internal hiring costs depend on recruiter workload, subscriptions, advertising and employer costs. The employee’s gross salary provides the comparison context below.
Review the longer-term context.
The horizon comparison keeps employee annual pay unchanged and repeats the internal recruiter employment allocation each year. Agency fees remain a single recruitment cost.
1 year
Total employee gross pay—
Agency fee
- One-time total fee
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- Share of gross pay
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- Monthly equivalent
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Internal estimate
- Cumulative internal cost
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- Share of gross pay
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- Monthly equivalent
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2 years
Total employee gross pay—
Agency fee
- One-time total fee
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- Share of gross pay
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- Monthly equivalent
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Internal estimate
- Cumulative internal cost
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- Share of gross pay
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- Monthly equivalent
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3 years
Total employee gross pay—
Agency fee
- One-time total fee
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- Share of gross pay
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- Monthly equivalent
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Internal estimate
- Cumulative internal cost
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- Share of gross pay
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- Monthly equivalent
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Recruiter salary and any entered employer payroll costs are allocated to these hires for each year. Tools, advertising and other entered costs are included once for the planned hires. The monthly equivalents divide each horizon’s total by 12, 24 or 36 months for context and do not describe a payment schedule. These horizons do not predict or guarantee how long an employee will stay.
A planning comparison, not a binding commercial proposal. Confirm recruitment fees and service conditions directly before proceeding.
Figures exclude VAT. Tax treatment depends on the transaction and the parties involved; confirm the applicable invoice treatment with your adviser. EU VAT guidance
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