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Thanks for your input. I did think that being exclusive was not great, but with the amount of interviews I was getting at companies that I was interested in, I

Thanks for your input. I did think that being exclusive was not great, but with the amount of interviews I was getting at companies that I was interested in, I was like "this should be work". To bring this down to numbers, years ago, I got a 150k offer from a company which I really liked. I also had a 180k offer from a corporate soul-suck. She got me up to 160 and at my preferred company and I'm happy there. I was under the impression that she gets like 1k - 5k of that salary. To be fair, I honestly don't know that she gets a cut personally, but that's how I hear things go in Chicago.

satvikpendem 3y ago
1 to 5k? That's laughably low, they make anywhere from 15 - 50% of the total compensation as a lump sum, but sometimes with stipulations like the employee not quitting before 90 days. If they're part of a recruiting firm, the firm might take a lot of that commission, but the recruiter still gets a hefty amount. So for your 160k, the firm likely make 40k total from which she would have made maybe 15k of that.
- lopatin 3y ago
  I perhaps misunderstood that they get a small life time cut of my salary. You may be right that they get a bigger percentage of yearly, but as a lump sum, just of the first year.
  - satvikpendem 3y ago
    Lifetime cut? Hell, I'd be a recruiter if they got a lifetime cut, imagine working for a few years then retiring as other people pay for you indefinitely. No, they get a commission off of the first year's salary.