Soto Hire
Recruiter cost calculator

What are you really paying your recruiter?

Recruiter fees look harmless until you multiply them by salary, roles, and another painful quarter. Plug in the numbers and see how quickly one invoice outruns SotoHire.

AI screening in minutesVEVO + police checks includedUnlimited applications, zero recruiter commission
Plug in your hiring numbers
Salary and recruiter fee percentage are the headline inputs. Roles per year is optional, but that’s where the blood starts spraying from the spreadsheet.

Try a common hiring scenario

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Recruiter fee per hire

$15,300

One recruiter placement at $85,000 and 18% costs more than 6.7 months of Growth.

Annual recruiter spend

$91,800

for 6 similar hires

Salary entered

$85,000

Growth months covered

6.7 months

Recruiter fee rate

18%

Starter
Perfect for lean teams making a few key hires each month.

$890 / month

$8,900 / year, up to 3 hires per month

One recruiter fee buys

17.2 months of Starter

SotoHire yearly cost$8,900
Recruiter spend this year$91,800

That is $82,900 cheaper than paying recruiter fees for 6 similar hires.

Growth
The sweet spot for teams replacing expensive recruiter retainers.
Best for most teams

$2,290 / month

$22,900 / year, up to 10 hires per month

One recruiter fee buys

6.7 months of Growth

SotoHire yearly cost$22,900
Recruiter spend this year$91,800

That is $68,900 cheaper than paying recruiter fees for 6 similar hires.

Scale
Built for high-volume hiring with dedicated support.

$4,790 / month

$47,900 / year, up to 25 hires per month

One recruiter fee buys

3.2 months of Scale

SotoHire yearly cost$47,900
Recruiter spend this year$91,800

That is $43,900 cheaper than paying recruiter fees for 6 similar hires.

Founder pricing

Lock in early pricing before the next recruiter invoice lands

Join the waitlist and we will keep your spot warm while everyone else keeps paying agency margin.

No recruiter commissionAI shortlist in minutesAU-hosted hiring stack

No card. No recruiter invoices. Just first dibs on launch pricing and a faster hiring pipeline.

One tool instead of three middlemen

Job posts, screening, scheduling, VEVO checks, and police checks all stay in one hiring flow instead of bouncing through agencies and spreadsheets.

Compliance without the extra tax

SotoHire bakes right-to-work and background checks into the process, so you stop paying recruiter margin for admin you still end up checking yourself.

Cheaper after the first painful hire

Most recruiter relationships feel fine until the second or third role. That is where subscription pricing starts looking very, very rude.