What's a typical agent cut for a permie role?

[EddieNambulous]

Based on your previous comments on here I would say you would not be the "preferred candidate", still your original question was not "how do I become an instant sycophant?"

Yawn.

Sorry but I don't remotely care what you think of me even if you tell me twice.

[pzz76077]

An image of rats and sinking ships comes to mind as I type this...I am looking at going permie at a former contracting gig, but am going direct rather than the other candidates who are coming through an agency.

Does anyone have an idea what a typical permie agent takes as a cut these days?

Would be a handy figure to dangle around in the "why should we employ you?" phase of questioning since I have my suspicions that some of the competition may be ex-contractors too...so the "I've already worked there/you know me" stuff might not be enough.

When I worked briefly for an agent friend of mine (many years ago), we used to charge 3 months salary where we could get away with it, many of our established clients would not go above 15-20% though.
I dont know what the permie market is like now, but in those days we used to rake it in. The team of 5 agents used to place between 1 and 3 permies a day.

HTH

PZZ

PZZ