Traditional agency
15–25% of first-year salary
- The fee is dictated to you, tied to a salary you don't set.
- It is paid to an intermediary.
- Nothing comes back to you or to anyone around you.
You decide what the role is worth. Your community earns it.
Recruitment agencies hand you an invoice tied to a salary you don't control. bountiii puts you in charge: set a bountiii you choose, and the whole of it goes to the people who help you hire — never to a middleman.
Where does your hiring spend actually go?
The same hire, three very different ways to pay for it — and three very different places the money ends up.
Paid job ads
Hundreds to thousands, upfront
- You pay per listing, whether or not anyone suitable applies.
- There is no guarantee of a hire.
- The spend leaves your community for good.
bountiii
You set the bountiii, from £750
- You decide what the role is worth to you.
- The whole bountiii goes to your community, plus a transparent service fee and VAT.
- You only pay the bountiii out on a successful hire who stays past the qualifying period.
Agency fees of 15–25% of first-year salary are a typical, illustrative market range, not a quote.
See the cost for your own role
Set the salary and the bountiii for a role you're hiring. Watch what you'd pay, and where every pound goes.
Minimum bountiii is £750.
What an agency would charge
A typical 15–25% of first-year salary, paid to the agency and never returned.
- Likely agency fee
- £5,250 – £7,000
- Returned to your community
- Nothing
What you would pay with bountiii
- Bountiii — goes to your community
- £1,000
- Service fee (9%)
- £90
- VAT on the service fee (20%)
- £18
- Total you pay
- £1,108
How the bountiii reaches your community
Shown for a full three-step referral path. Each share is a proportion of the bountiii.
- First referrer
- £500
- Second referrer
- £300
- Third referrer
- £200
On a shorter referral path, the unfilled deeper shares are retained rather than redistributed.
bountiii compared to an agency for this role
Goes to your community with bountiii
£1,000
Leaves your community with an agency
£5,250 – £7,000
With bountiii the bountiii reaches real people around you. With an agency, the whole fee goes to the intermediary.
Hiring on your terms
You set the value. A bountiii that suits your budget for one role can look completely different for another — the choice is always yours.
It works for a corner shop hiring one person and for a company filling a senior role. You are never handed an invoice you didn't choose.
You only pay the bountiii when it works out
The bountiii is processed through Stripe and is only paid to the referral path on a genuine hire who stays past the 90-day qualifying retention period. If it doesn't work out, the bountiii is returned to you. The service fee and its VAT are the cost of running the process and are not refundable.
Payments, refunds, and payouts are all processed through Stripe.
A hiring spend that builds goodwill
Instead of paying a faceless agency, you put real money into your local community and the people around it. It's recruitment that earns you reputation as well as a hire.
Money already shared with communities through bountiii:
£0
Paid out to communities
- Successful employment introductions
- 0
How it works for employers
- 1
Set a bountiii and fund it
Choose what the role is worth to you and fund the bountiii, processed through Stripe, before it goes live.
- 2
Your community shares the role
Anyone can share your role with a tracked link. Candidates apply directly to you.
- 3
You hire
You review every application and make the hiring decision. bountiii makes the introduction only.
- 4
The bountiii reaches the community
When your hire stays past the 90-day qualifying period, the bountiii is shared across the verified referral path.
Ready to hire on your terms?
Set a bountiii you choose, and let your community find the right person for the job.