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Earn more.
Own your outcomes.
Keep 80% or more of what you bill. The back-office, the brand and a bench of senior peers come with it.
You built the book. Time to own the upside.
Peak earning years don't repeat. Every search you close at a traditional firm mostly funds someone else's business. At SIG, it funds yours.
Keep what you earn.
At most firms the house keeps 60–75% of everything you bill. At SIG it flips. Same work, same clients, same hours — a completely different outcome.
Senior peers, real collaboration
Going independent doesn't mean going alone. SIG recruiters share candidates, split searches, and trade market intelligence — a partner desk, not a solo shop.
A back-office that just works
Contracts, invoicing, collections, legal, compliance — handled. You run searches; the platform runs the business underneath them.
Own your outcomes
Your book stays yours. Your clients stay yours. And a path to equity in the platform itself is coming — so what you build, you own.
Same $500K in billings. Very different income.
What a recruiter billing $500,000 per year actually takes home.
Illustrative, based on standard SIG platform terms. Splits start at 80% and rise as you clear annual revenue hurdles.
Run your own numbers.
Estimate how much more you'd take home on the SIG platform.
The years you spend at a traditional firm are the years you never get back.
A career of billings, and what you keep of it. Drag the shaded window across the years you would spend on SIG — five to twenty of them — and see what a traditional split would have handed to someone else over that stretch. Uses the billings and split you set above.
What you do with the difference is your call.
A traditional firm funds its benefits package out of the 60–75% it keeps — and you take the plan the firm picked. On the SIG platform that money reaches you first. Direct it to healthcare, retirement, disability coverage, continuing education, or whatever your situation actually calls for. Your dollars.
SIG recruiters are independent practitioners who select and hold their own coverage. SIG does not sponsor a group benefits plan, and nothing here is tax or insurance advice.
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The calculator above uses round numbers and a flat 80%. Tell us how your book actually works — retained vs. contingent mix, average fee, what you currently pay for benefits and tooling — and we’ll build a personalized model and walk you through it. Confidential, no obligation.
Don’t take our word for the math.
Hear it from a recruiter who made the move.
It’s all and more of what I hoped for.
“It’s absolutely a gem to have this back office always here with me. I reach out, I send them emails — less than 24 hours, they get back to me. They held my hand through all of it. I have complete trust in everything they do to support me.”
We don’t run your business. We make sure you’re not running it alone.
Billing & collections
Invoicing, fee collection, and payout handled by the platform. You get paid without chasing.
Legal & contracts
Client agreements, engagement letters, and compliance infrastructure — reviewed and ready.
CRM & tooling
Enterprise-grade recruiting stack, sourcing data, and outreach sequences included.
An established brand
Pitch with SIG's 20-year executive search track record and client roster behind you.
See the client-facing brand →Peer community
Weekly collaboration with senior recruiters — shared searches, split fees, candidate referrals.
Equity ownership
A program for qualifying recruiters to own a real stake in the platform. Currently in development.
Learn more →Built for recruiters at three inflection points.
The independent
You’ve already built it alone. SIG gives you the brand, back-office, and peers you’ve been doing without — while you stay fully independent. No retainer, no overhead: we earn only when you do.
The agency veteran
Ten years building someone else’s firm. Bring your book somewhere your payout finally matches your production — and keep enough of it to have real choices.
The rising partner
Ready to build your own book but need infrastructure and mentorship. Senior SIG recruiters help you get there faster.
You win the consultancy. SIG runs the back office behind it, top to bottom.
Win the consulting work and the engagement is yours — your consultant, hired and managed by you, on a client who never stops being yours. What SIG puts behind it is the machinery: contracts papered, payroll processed, time approved, invoices raised and chased, and HR professionals on hand for the questions that come with having someone on the ground. You keep 60% of the net margin — and you never have to build a back office to earn it.
You run the consultancy. We run everything behind it.
The reason most independent recruiters never place consultants is not that the work is not there. It is that the consultant is a real commitment — somebody you hire, manage and pay every cycle — and most people have no machinery to run that through. That part stays yours here, and we will not pretend otherwise. The machinery is what SIG supplies, and it is the part that stops people.
That is a consultancy — and it is yours, not ours. You hire, you manage, you carry the economics and you take the margin. What you are spared is the eighteen months and the fixed cost of building the machinery that makes any of it possible.
Keep the revenue from your clients.
It is the most common way a recruiter loses a client without doing anything wrong. The client asks for contract or consulting talent. The firm routes the engagement to another group. You get a referral fee on a margin you never see — and that group now owns the conversation with a client you spent years earning. When they get something wrong, it is still your relationship that absorbs it.
That 15% comes with a base salary, and we will not pretend otherwise — at a firm, somebody else carries the downside of a slow quarter. What they carry off with it is the upside: the margin on every consultant you placed, every month the engagement runs, on a client you brought in. If you are already senior enough that your billings rather than your salary decide what you earn, the trade is not a close one.
And it repeats. Consulting revenue lands month over month, steadying the stretch between search placements instead of leaving you waiting on the next one to close.
There is a gap between payroll and payment. We structure it down with you.
Placing a consultant is not like closing a search. A search pays out once, after the placement. A consultant is paid every cycle from the day they start, while the client pays on commercial terms. Every staffing business in the world has that gap; what decides how much it costs you is how the engagement is structured — and that is something we work through with you before you commit. Shorter billing cycles. Invoicing against approved time as it is worked rather than monthly in arrears. Deposits or advance payments where the client will agree to them. Cash management that keeps what you put in as small as the deal allows.
Running a consulting desk takes two things: a back office and working capital. SIG supplies the first outright — contracts, payroll processing, invoicing, collections and HR support, none of it your overhead and none of it something you have to stand up yourself. The capital behind a live engagement sits on your side, because this is your business and the margin is yours. How much of it you actually put in is what we structure with you, deal by deal, and we will tell you what an engagement is likely to need before you say yes to it.
It is also front-loaded rather than permanent. Your first placements are the ones that ask for capital. Once those consultants are running and invoices land on a rolling cycle, receipts cover payroll on the placements that follow and the curve flattens out. What is left is recurring revenue on clients that were already yours.
What is your consulting margin worth to the house?
Run the same math on the consulting side of your practice. Every figure here is net margin — what the client is billed, less what the consultant costs you to keep on the ground — not total billings.
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See your consulting terms →The people behind the platform.
Marie Bernardino
Decades of executive search expertise leading SIG's client relationships and recruiter network.
Andy Crewell, JD
Runs the legal and administrative infrastructure that keeps the platform seamless for recruiters.
Andrew Altholz
Strategic advisor on finance, growth strategy, and the economic model behind the SIG platform.
See how SIG recruiters show up in the market.
"Fortune 500 CFO tenure averages 4.5 years and declining. The gap between tenure compression and search timelines is where finance leadership gets quietly broken."
"150–200 hours. 6–9 months. Access to 20–30% of the market. Run this math before your next in-house search."
"Golf, certifications, saying yes before I was ready — what turning 55 taught me about growth, competence, and staying a beginner on purpose."
On the SIG platform you build your own name in the market, not the firm’s — with content support behind you and a peer network amplifying every post. When you own the audience, it moves with you.
The client side feeds the recruiter side.
SIG runs two connected properties. One brings in the client demand; the other is where that work gets done. Recruiters on the platform sit on the receiving end of both.
joinsig.com
The client-facing search practice — methodology, verticals, case work, and the team. This is the brand your prospects will look up after your first call.
Visit the client site →recruitsig.com
The platform side — economics, back-office, and consulting. Where searches sourced through the client brand get staffed.
Start a confidential conversation →Client engagements that come in through joinsig.com are staffed from the SIG recruiter network. Your desk is not the only thing filling your pipeline.
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