• The average salary of this group in February was £47,400
• This is £6,000 higher than the average recruiter spoken to in January and represents a market trend for experienced in-house recruiters currently looking for a new opportunity
• This group are typically at the very top of the “recruiter” roles with no reports or potentially some administrative support but carrying out full life cycle of the recruiter role

• The average target salary for the group was £53,000 representing an expected salary rise of £5,600 to move, only slightly lower than January’s expectation at £6,000
• Bonuses ranged from 0-45% of base salary
• On average most recruiters were receiving a bonus of c.20% of base salary
• At the time of year when many recruiters are receiving their bonus or being advised recruiters we spoke to were broadly happy with their 2010 pay-out stating bonus was in line or slightly above expectation (albeit most had low expectations!)

Due to our own focus on permanent and Fixed Term contract roles in February we did not have a large enough pool of day rate contractors to analyse and give fair results in February.  As a trend it appeared in February that many contractors had recently taken up roles.  March is already shaping up to be a “contractor” month with high client demand to deliver on post-bonus capacity in the city and candidates completing long standing contracts… Watch this space…

• The average base salary of this group was £48,000
• The average target base salary of this group was £46,500
• So where this group in January were looking to break even on the transition in-house there is now not only a willingness to forgo bonus and commission they will now take a lower base salary to complete a career move