Permanent recruitment
A flat fee for a permanent hire
We do not take a percentage of anything, and that includes salaries. The better the person you hire, the smaller our share of what they cost.
What a hire costs
A flat fee.
Not a slice of the salary.
£3,500 for a salary under £50,000, £4,500 at or above it. That is the whole fee, whoever you hire and whatever you pay them.
Percentage fees do something strange: the better the person you want, the more your agency earns for finding them. Ours does the opposite. The higher the salary, the smaller our share of it.
- Tempeo fee
- £3,500
- A typical agency at 15%
- £6,750
- A typical agency at 20%
- £9,000
- You keep
- £5,500
Compared against a 20% fee. Percentages shown for comparison only. They are the market norm, not our charge.
How a permanent search runs
- 01
The brief
What the role actually involves, what it pays, and what sort of person has done well in it before.
- 02
The search
We work our own database first, because the people already working for you on temporary bookings are often the best permanent hires available.
- 03
The shortlist
A small number of people we would stand behind, with our reasoning, rather than a stack of CVs for you to sift.
- 04
Offer and start
We stay involved through notice periods and up to the start date, which is where placements are most often lost.
If it does not work out
An eight week rebate
If a placement ends inside the first eight weeks you get part of the fee back. The whole fee in week one, then 12.5 points less for each week that passes.
We would rather carry that risk than talk you into a hire that does not stick.
| Ends in | You get back |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | 100% |
| Week 2 | 87.5% |
| Week 3 | 75% |
| Week 4 | 62.5% |
| Week 5 | 50% |
| Week 6 | 37.5% |
| Week 7 | 25% |
| Week 8 | 12.5% |
| After week 8 | Nil |
Questions we get asked
What does a permanent placement cost?
£3,500 where the starting salary is under £50,000, and £4,500 where it is £50,000 or above. That is the fee, not a percentage of it.
Why a flat fee rather than a percentage?
Because a percentage pays an agency more for putting a bigger salary in front of you, which is a strange thing to reward. A flat fee means we are paid for finding the right person, not for how much you end up paying them.
What happens if the person leaves?
You get part of the fee back on a sliding scale over eight weeks. The whole fee if it ends in week one, then twelve and a half points less for each week that passes, so a placement ending in week eight returns twelve and a half per cent.
What sort of roles do you place?
Site management and supervision, and the trades and staff roles that sit alongside them. The same desks that supply your temporary labour handle it, so the people searching already know your sites.
Hiring a permanent role?
Tell us the role, the site and the salary you have in mind, and we will tell you honestly whether it will attract the person you want.