Jobs and Salary: Where in the world are the Recruiter Jobs?

Posted by Jim Stroud

April 30, 2008

Every now and again, its good to see what your peers are making. How else are you to know if you are undervalued or really, really appreciated? (Well, purely from a money perspective anyway.) I did a quick look-around to see what the average salaries were for Recruiters across the United States and the types of Recruiters who were making the most. I wanted to know how many Recruiter jobs were out there in these recessionary times and I also wanted to know how the job market was for Recruiters overseas as well. I guess I wanted to know a lot. So who had the answer? Indeed.com and Recruit.net.

This is a chart representing the volume of Recruiter jobs in the USA. The range is from February 2005 to February 26, 2008. The results are probably not that surprising. From May ‘05 to the Summer of ‘07, it was all good. No worries around getting a gig, but then around the Fall of ‘07, things began to take a downward spin; reflective of the recession.

recruiter Job Trends graph

(Hmm… if you want even more insight on this trend, click here and read my post “Are Recruiter jobs disappearing?”)

Okay, so that’s the volume of Recruiter jobs stateside, but what about my Recruiter friends overseas in Australia, Japan, Singapore, China and India? Is it easier or harder to find work as a Recruiter as determined by the number of Recruiter jobs being advertised? Let’s see…

Can I find a recruiter job overseas in india, china, australia, japan or singapore?

Hmm… If you are in India, there seems to be more work for Recruiters there than in the other countries I mentioned. (Go figure) Coming in second was Australia, third is China, fourth is Singapore and finishing out the race is Japan. The data of course is from November 2006 to December 2007. I wanted more current data, but this is what I have so far.

Between March and July, it seems that India and Australia both were in a downward trend and each were fighting to regain the Recruiter Jobs volume although India was having a much better time of it. I also noticed that Japan consistently was not a haven for Recruiter Jobs in comparison to the othe countries as well. Curious… Do any of my readers have insight into these trends that I am not picking up on?

And now, the money…

Across the board in the USA, Recruiters make $41,000.00 (as of April 30,2008) with the quickest path to a 6-figure salary (commissions are not counted in this graph, only advertised salary ranges) being a Recruiter Manager.

How much money does a recruiter make?

Hope you find this as interesting as I did. I do not have any data around salaries of Recruiters overseas, but would like to find that and post here in the future. If anyone has any resources that they can point me towards, I would appreciate it.