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DirectHire is typically 10–15% of the hire's first-year base salary. A $5,000 engagement fee opens the search and is credited in full toward the placement fee, with the balance due when your hire starts. Open the search with a $10,000 engagement fee instead, credited in full the same way, and the replacement guarantee covers the first 6 months. 10% applies to a new, straightforward requirement given to BizFirst on a 30-day exclusive; otherwise the fee is 12–15%, set by the difficulty and qualities of the role, with long-open, heavily worked requirements priced toward the top. A minimum placement fee of $15,000 applies. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or several roles at once) and executive, highly complex, or high-clearance (Poly) roles are scoped and quoted separately.

With BizFirst DirectHire, typically 10–15% of first-year base salary, a $100,000 hire costs $15,000, the minimum placement fee, with $5,000 paid to open the search and the balance when we place someone. HireSelect is a flat $3,500 for a single role. A traditional agency charging 20–30% would cost $20,000 to $30,000 for the same hire.

BizFirst DirectHire, typically 10–15%, is $15,000 to $22,500 for a $150,000 hire, versus $30,000 to $45,000 at a traditional 20–30% agency. HireSelect is a flat $3,500, and PartnerHire (embedded) is a flat monthly fee plus $1,000 per placement rather than a percentage of salary.

PartnerHire Core is a flat monthly rate per dedicated recruiter, each with a shared Client Delivery Lead: $8,500/mo for one dedicated recruiter, plus $7,000/mo for each additional recruiter (so two recruiters are $15,500/mo and three are $22,500/mo; four or more get custom volume pricing). Every engagement adds a $1,000 fee for each successful hire and includes senior oversight and all specified sourcing tools. Month to month, that is $8,500 per month; with a 6-month minimum it is $8,000 per month per recruiter, and each additional recruiter is $6,500 (two committed recruiters $14,500). Cleared-role seats, with ClearanceJobs sourcing included, are $9,000 per month ($8,500 committed), $7,500 ($7,000 committed) for each additional cleared recruiter. Notice is 60 days for one or two recruiters, 90 days for three or four, and 120 days for five or more; the 6-month rate carries on month to month after its term. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or a larger recruiting program) are scoped and quoted separately. See the cost at your hiring volume

PartnerHire Complete starts at $18,000/mo plus a flat $1,000 per placement, never a percentage of salary. It is our deepest RPO engagement: a senior talent leader runs your recruiting function end to end as your single point of contact, backed by a dedicated recruiting pod, with unlimited active roles. The fee includes the strategic layer that turns hiring into a repeatable system: hiring process design and interview kits, employer value proposition and recruitment marketing, salary benchmarking and offer strategy, and pipeline and metrics in our ATS. Because it is a flat monthly engagement, your cost stays predictable no matter how much you hire. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or a larger recruiting program) are scoped and quoted separately.

Both give you a dedicated recruiting team on a flat monthly fee. The difference is who owns the recruiting function. With Core, our recruiters plug into your process and a shared senior lead QAs every submission, so you keep the process and strategy. With Complete, that lead runs the function for you, including process design, offer strategy, and pipeline and metrics, with unlimited roles. Two-recruiter Core starts at $15,500/mo, Complete at $18,000/mo. Either way, you keep the final hiring decision and employer-only steps like the offer, background checks, clearance adjudication, and onboarding.

Yes. Your PartnerHire Core recruiter works full-time, 40 hours a week, on your roles, for $8,500 a month per recruiter, with a senior Client Delivery Lead overseeing the work and reviewing every submission. It is a dedicated resource worked by a recruiter, rather than a share of a pooled team or a cap on the number of open roles.

A cleared-role seat is a dedicated recruiter working roles that require a security clearance, with ClearanceJobs sourcing included. It is $9,000 per month, month to month, or $8,500 per month with a 6-month minimum, with $7,500 per month ($7,000 committed) for each additional cleared recruiter, and the same senior Client Delivery Lead, notice terms, and flat $1,000 per placement as a standard seat. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or a larger recruiting program) are scoped and quoted separately.

Compare what the fee includes. BizFirst is a full-time recruiter at 40 hours a week, dedicated to you, backed by an American-owned and operated firm, with a senior lead on quality and a flat $1,000 per hire. Lower-priced subscriptions often provide capacity for a set number of roles, a shared or part-time recruiter, or technology-led sourcing. Confirm hours per week, exclusivity, who runs the work, and the binding term before comparing on price.

Yes, through ContractHire Recruiters. The same full-time recruiter sits inside your team, works in your ATS and your process, and takes direction from your hiring leader, with BizFirst as the employer handling coverage and replacement. You are billed at the recruiter's pay rate plus a published markup, hourly or as a fixed monthly rate, with every hire included. PartnerHire Core is the BizFirst-run version: our systems, a senior Client Delivery Lead directing the search and reviewing every submission, $8,500 a month per recruiter plus $1,000 per placement. How ContractHire works

ContractHire has two tracks, priced the same way: the person's pay rate plus a published markup, 45 percent for a W-2 employee of BizFirst or 25 percent for an independent consultant with their own registered company and insurance, so a $60 an hour W-2 professional bills at $87 an hour, and the minimum markup is $15 an hour. Contract Recruiters work in your ATS and report to your hiring manager, usually full time on a fixed monthly rate set from that markup, with every hire included. Contract Professionals in IT, finance, program and project management and operations are billed hourly, or at a fixed monthly rate for full-time schedules. Hours are logged in our timesheet system and approved by you weekly; invoices go out every two weeks, Net 15. Every engagement starts with a 90-day initial period and then runs month to month. The published rates are our small and midsize business pricing. Enterprise programs (an MSA, preferred-vendor terms, or a larger program) are scoped and quoted separately. How ContractHire works

Who runs the recruiting, and how you pay. PartnerHire Core is run by BizFirst: a senior Client Delivery Lead directs the search in our systems and reviews every submission, and the flat $8,500 a month per recruiter includes our sourcing stack, plus $1,000 per placement. A ContractHire recruiter is run by you: they work in your ATS and your process, take direction from your hiring manager, and you are billed at their pay rate plus a published markup, hourly or as a fixed monthly rate, with every hire included. BizFirst is the employer either way.

Yes, whenever you are ready. A conversion fee of 10 percent of first-year base salary applies inside the first six months. After 1,040 billed hours, about six months of full-time work, the hire converts with the fee waived. It is the lowest-risk path to a permanent hire we offer.

Yes, two ways. HireSelect is flat-fee recruiting for a single role: $3,500 flat at any salary, $500 to start and $3,000 on delivery of 3 to 5 qualified candidates. It is available for one role per company, as a first engagement before you decide whether DirectHire or PartnerHire fits the rest of your hiring. On the retained models, PartnerHire Core and PartnerHire Complete charge a flat $1,000 per placement, never a percentage of salary, no matter what the hire is paid. That flat-fee-per-placement pricing is what separates the retained models from traditional agencies that bill 10 to 12% of first-year salary on top of a monthly fee. DirectHire, our contingent model, is different: it is priced as a percentage of first-year salary (typically 10–15%), with a $5,000 engagement fee credited in full toward the placement fee and the balance billed when your hire starts. So for flat-fee recruiting, HireSelect covers a single role, and PartnerHire Core and PartnerHire Complete cover ongoing hiring.

A $5,000 engagement fee opens the search. It is the first part of your placement fee, credited in full when your hire starts, so the balance due at hire is the placement fee less $5,000. Open the search with a $10,000 engagement fee instead, credited in full the same way, and the replacement guarantee covers the first 6 months. The placement fee is typically 10% to 15% of first-year base salary, with a $15,000 minimum. Every search has an assigned recruiter and a senior Client Delivery Lead who reviews every submission, and every placement carries a replacement guarantee, 90 days as standard or 6 months with the $10,000 engagement fee, which replaces a departed or terminated hire once within the covered window; standard exclusions apply. Hiring several roles? Ask about volume pricing.

No. A BizFirst PartnerHire fee pays for a managed recruiting engagement: a dedicated recruiter plus a senior Client Delivery Lead who owns client alignment, recruiter oversight, and quality assurance of every candidate submission. The recruiter runs the search; the Client Delivery Lead manages delivery and protects quality, so comparing the fee to the cost of a single recruiter understates what is included. DirectHire, our contingent model, also includes a senior Client Delivery Lead, on a per-role basis; only HireSelect, our flat-fee single-role option, is recruiter-led without one.

The Client Delivery Lead is a senior BizFirst delivery professional who owns client alignment and intake, recruiting strategy, oversight of the dedicated recruiter, quality assurance of every candidate submission, hiring-manager calibration, feedback and escalation management, and overall accountability for delivery quality. It is included in PartnerHire Core and PartnerHire Complete, and one Client Delivery Lead supports only three to four clients.

On PartnerHire, the Client Delivery Lead reviews and quality-assures every submission before it reaches you, so candidates are screened against your requirements by a senior person rather than forwarded straight from the recruiter.

Because the published price often represents only the recruiter. A BizFirst PartnerHire fee also includes senior delivery management and candidate-submission QA. A lower invoice for a lone recruiter can carry a higher total cost once you account for the internal time spent calibrating, supervising, and QA-ing that recruiter, plus the cost of poorly matched submissions and search resets.

Compare the total delivery model, not recruiter fees alone. Ask whether each option includes a recruiter, a senior Client Delivery Lead, independent candidate-submission QA, client-facing delivery management, recruiter oversight, and clear accountability. If those functions are not included, the services are not equivalent, and a lower price may reflect a narrower scope.