MissionHires is the first recruiting agency with a sliding-scale fee — 10% on entry-level placements, dropping to 5% on senior hires. The opposite of every contingency agency.
Traditional agencies charge a flat 20–30% of first-year salary. The work doesn't get harder when the salary goes up — but somehow the bill triples. The result is an industry built on misaligned incentives.
Industry-average rate for mid-level placements. Executive and specialized roles climb to 25–30%, with no change in the underlying work.
Most agencies optimize for placement speed because they only get paid on hire. The result: volume over quality, and a candidate experience that frays.
That's the bill from a typical 30% agency — for sourcing, a few candidate intros, and coordination. No behavioral screening, no credential checks, no AI-assisted evaluation.
Most agencies tax your best hires. We do the opposite: a sliding scale from 10% at entry-level down to 5% on senior placements. Same end-to-end service. A fraction of the bill.
A $200,000 placement isn't four times harder to recruit than a $50,000 one. So we don't charge four times more. As salaries climb, our percentage drops — keeping the absolute fee in a sane range.
Three placements we ran last quarter — and what you'd have paid a typical contingency agency for the same outcome.
Drag the sliders to model your annual hiring spend — by role salary and volume — against what a typical 22% contingency agency would charge.
Flat-fee disruptors strip out the work. We don't. The 5–10% fee covers the entire process from intake to placement.
A 1B+ candidate database across active and passive channels. We build an Ideal Candidate Profile and run multi-channel warm outreach.
10–15 minute conversation via chat, audio, or video. Every candidate gets the same fair, structured assessment.
Qualifications, role alignment, and cultural fit — combined into a single 1–10 match score with full explainability.
From job intake to a ranked, pre-vetted shortlist with intro videos attached — typically delivered within two business days.
If the hire doesn't work out within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost. Risk stays on our side.
Shortlists ship into Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Bullhorn, and most major ATS platforms. No migration. No tooling sprawl.
You get a named recruiter, not a queue. Weekly check-ins on every active req — and a direct Slack channel if you want one.
Live dashboards on submittals, interview throughput, offer-to-accept rate, and time-to-fill — across every requisition.
We were paying our old agency 25% on every senior placement. Switching to MissionHires cut our annual recruiting bill by more than three quarters — and the shortlists were faster and better screened than what we'd been getting before.
Book a 15-minute call. We'll quote your sliding-scale rate and deliver a sample shortlist for one of your open roles — at no cost.
