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Careers at HBG
The recruitment agency that shows you the maths. We publish our pay, commission bands and margins so you can run the numbers before you apply.
Last year, 80% of consultants with us for the full year earned more than $150K.
128,000+
Candidates in Database
860+
Clients Served
10,800+
Inducted Workers
5
Locations, AU & NZ
Where do you fit?
The Desk You Inherit
Most consultants spend six months building before they earn. Here, the desk is already live when you sit down. Warm clients, open job orders, inducted workers ready to place, and the infrastructure to back it all up. You walk in and get to work.
We hold major preferred-supplier agreements across labour hire and permanent, so the volume is real and the clients are already ours. You are placing into live demand, not cold-calling for it.
128,000+
Candidates in Our Network
10,800+
Workers Inducted in the Database
860+
Project Sites
92%
Client Return Rate
1,270+
Worked in the Last 12 Months
82%
Perm Placement Rate
Start with a confidential chat, not an application. No CV, no pressure, and nothing gets back to your current desk. Leave your number and Seb will call you.
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Or connect with Seb on LinkedIn.
Roles & Earnings
Six roles across two worlds, plus the ops team that keeps them running. Every seat has a clear entry point, a defined path up, and a real number attached to it.
Real billing from our floor (gross profit, one consultant each)
$827K
Top labour hire desk, one year, GP
$78K
Biggest labour hire month, GP
$97K
Biggest perm fee month
$37.5K
Biggest single perm fee
All gross profit, not revenue. Under the bands below, a $78K month pays $24,500 in commission and a $97K month pays $34,000.
In FY26, 80% of consultants with us for the full year earned more than $150K, base plus commission.
$70K to $100K
total earnings
Runs the allocation grid. You confirm, chase and fill shifts same-day, matching inducted workers to sites and keeping clients covered. Fast, operational, high volume. The scoreboard resets every morning.
Our entry to the desk. Leads to: senior allocator, then a full 360 desk on a clear, mapped path up.
$70K to $100K
total earnings
Finds the temps and puts them on our books to place. You attract, induct and ready trades and labourers so the allocators always have supply to send to site. Phone- and candidate-heavy, with a direct impact on how well every desk performs.
Our entry to the desk. Leads to: senior resourcer or a full 360 Labour Hire desk.
$70K to $100K
total earnings
Sources and pipelines candidates toward full-time placements. Talent pooling, headhunting, interview prep and keeping the perm pipeline warm so the 360 consultants can place them into permanent roles. Candidate-facing and central to how the perm desks perform.
Our entry to the perm desk. Leads to: senior resourcer or a 360 perm consultant desk.
$120K to $250K+
total earnings
A full 360 labour hire desk. Win the client, source and induct the trades and labourers, and keep them on site. You own the whole cycle: BD, filling and account management, with a book of repeat labour hire clients that builds over time.
You ramp as you build the desk; top billers land at $250K+ on up to 50% commission, then a team lead (mentor) pathway.
$120K to $250K+
total earnings
A full 360 desk placing permanent professional roles: building services, construction management, estimating and similar. BD, sourcing and placement across a longer cycle, with a client book that compounds year on year.
You ramp as you build the desk; top billers land at $250K+ on up to 50% commission, then a team lead (mentor) pathway.
Package discussed at interview
The engine room behind every desk: payroll, compliance, onboarding, systems and support. If the consultants are billing, you are the reason it runs cleanly. Detail-oriented, process-driven, and essential.
Leads to: ops lead, team manager, or a specialist path in payroll, compliance or systems.
Base $70K to $120K by level, plus uncapped commission. Top billers earn $250K+.
See Open RolesYour Earnings, Transparently
You earn your base plus uncapped, tiered commission that climbs to 50%. Hit your monthly billing target (2.7 times your total employment cost, about $20,160 a month on an $80K base) and the full rate applies. Below target you still earn on every dollar, at half the band rate. Every band is published below, paid on the 15th, no holdbacks.
$70K to $120K+
Base Salary
Junior to Lead, by level
Up to 50%
Commission
Of every dollar billed
$220K to $250K+
Top Biller Earnings
No ceiling on earnings
2.7x
Performance Benchmark
Return on package
Billings means gross profit: for labour hire, charge rate less pay rate and on-costs; for perm, the placement fee. Every figure on this page is GP, not revenue.
$40,000
| Billing Range | Rate | Amount | Commission |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0 to $20,000 | 10% | $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $20,000 to $35,000 | 25% | $15,000 | $3,750 |
| $35,000 to $50,000 | 35% | $5,000 | $1,750 |
| $50,000 to $60,000 | 45% | $0 | $0 |
| $60,000 to ∞ | 50% | $0 | $0 |
Monthly Commission
$7,500
18.8% effective rate
Annual Commission
$90,000
Total Annual Package
$165,000
What you earn at three levels
Base plus commission, for a $75,000 base. Recomputed if you change the base above.
It’s Not Just About the Money
We get it. You can have the best-paying job in the world and still burn out. That’s why every month you hit your financial target, you earn 1 extra day of bankable “Bonus Leave” that stacks on top of your annual leave. Hit target 12 months running + your birthday off = up to 33 days leave per year. Take it as a block, tack it onto a holiday, or bank it, it’s yours.
Commission is paid monthly on the 15th of the following month, on every dollar billed, no holdbacks.
Enter a pay rate and charge rate to see on-costs, the gross margin, and what that placement is worth per week. Build a full desk to ground the commission figures above in real billing numbers. Permanent placements are charged as a one-off percentage of salary, a different model.
The true cost of labour hire. Nothing hidden.
Type a pay rate and a charge rate to see the on-cost breakdown, the margin, and what a placement is worth per week.
Paid as an individual under a Tax File Number: super, workers comp, payroll tax and casual loading are all carried on top of the hourly rate.
Usually paid to the worker at the award rate and charged through to the client, with a small margin. Allowances do not attract super, workers comp or payroll tax.
Enter a pay rate above to see how every on-cost is built.
Add a pay rate and a charge rate to see the margin and what a placement is worth.
Recruiting permanently? Different model.
A permanent placement is charged as a one-off fee, a percentage of the annual salary, not an ongoing hourly margin. One perm win can be worth weeks of labour-hire fills, and HBG runs both Labour Hire 360 (trades) and Perm 360 (professional) desks. This calculator models the labour-hire side.
The legal way, every time
HBG charges a fair rate within the market and pays within the market, with every on-cost paid correctly: superannuation, workers compensation, payroll tax and casual loading. No sham contracting, no cutting corners. We back flexibility where it makes business sense, never at illegal rates. We publish this because we believe every labour hire company should be honest about what it truly costs to put someone on site. Confirm any award figure for free at fairwork.gov.au. Want the detail? See how we do it the legal way : sham contracting, awards and what every worker is owed, explained.
Apply to join HBGFigures are indicative statutory and market rates for illustration only (super 12%, payroll tax ~5.45% varies by state, indicative workers comp and admin). They are not a quote and are not HBG's specific rate card. Actual rates are set per role, site and award.
Run Your Numbers
Same billing. Same base. See what you would take home at HBG instead.
Your Current Setup
Most agencies pay commission only on billings above a monthly threshold, once you have covered your cost.
$40,000
30%
$25,000
Billings you cover before commission starts (roughly your cost to the business).
Where You Are Now
At HBG, Same Billing
The Cost of Staying Put
$36,000 a year more at HBG
On the same billing, with the same base.
| Monthly GP Range | HBG Rate | GP in This Band | Commission |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0 to $20,000 | 10% | $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $20,000 to $35,000 | 25% | $15,000 | $3,750 |
| $35,000 to $50,000 | 35% | $5,000 | $1,750 |
| $50,000 to $60,000 | 45% | $0 | $0 |
| $60,000 to above | 50% | $0 | $0 |
Same billing, published HBG bands. Model it before you even interview. Commission is paid monthly on the 15th of the following month, on every dollar billed, no holdbacks. HBG commission is gross profit only (charge rate less pay rate and on-costs for labour hire; placement fee for perm). This model does not apply the below-target 50% rule from the main commission calculator, showing full-rate HBG commission for a clean comparison.
Perks & Benefits
The package at HBG is built around the things agencies always promise but rarely deliver. The headline numbers are real, not rounding up from the standard terms.
Hit your targets and earn 13 extra days on top of your standard 20. More leave than almost any agency in the market, no asterisk.
A cash bonus every year on top of your commission, so you can actually switch off at the end of the year instead of watching the account.
Hunter Valley, weekends away, NRL, team dinners at top restaurants. Big billers get properly recognised, not a gift card and a handshake.
Latest Apple hardware from day one, no BYOD
Pool table, golf simulator, and dartboard in the office. We work hard but have fun
Beer and wine fridge stocked for knock-off drinks, plus regular team lunches on in-office days around Surry Hills
4 days office / 1 day WFH. Desks typically run 8am to 5pm, with flex to start earlier (7 to 4) or later (9 to 6)
Centralised admin, compliance, and marketing team behind you
Celebrate wins. Monthly shout-outs and team recognition
Our Technology Edge
HBG has built proprietary AI-powered recruitment technology in-house. Our consultants don’t fear automation, they wield it. While other agencies drown in admin, our people focus on what actually makes money: relationships.
Our algorithms match candidates to roles in seconds, not hours. Skills, availability, compliance, and location are all scored automatically.
Inductions, licences, white cards, and right-to-work are all tracked and flagged automatically. Zero manual chasing.
CV formatting, site mapping, availability broadcasts, offer letters. AI drafts it, you approve it. Minutes, not hours.
150+ API endpoints, 5 portals, live dashboards. Every placement, every worker, and every site is visible in one place.
Commission
Traditional Agency
Typically 10% to 20% of GP after a threshold, often capped.
HBG
Tiered commission that climbs to 50% on monthly billings over $60K, paid monthly, no holdbacks.
Desk warmth
Traditional Agency
Cold or semi-warm, build your own client base from scratch
HBG
Warm clients, live job orders, and 10,800+ inducted candidates handed over at onboarding
Tech stack
Traditional Agency
Standard ATS and a job board subscription, often legacy tools
HBG
New MacBook and iPhone day one. JobAdder, LinkedIn Recruiter, SEEK, Lusha, plus proprietary in-house AI and automation
Admin burden
Traditional Agency
Compliance chasing, CV formatting, and comms fall on the consultant
HBG
Centralised compliance, admin, and marketing team. AI handles formatting and comms, so your day stays on the phone
Autonomy
Traditional Agency
Management layers, activity KPIs, and sign-off chains
HBG
You own your desk. The MD recruits daily beside you, not over you. Results are the measure, not daily call counts
Leave
Traditional Agency
Standard 20 days annual leave
HBG
Up to 33 days a year, including your standard 20 days.
The admin, compliance, and sourcing grunt work is handled.
So your day goes on the phone and in front of clients, not in paperwork. The tech stack keeps improving, and you’ll be using tools most agencies won’t have for years.
Join the Future of RecruitmentOpen Roles
Every desk comes with live roles, warm clients, and full tech & admin support. Base $70K to $120K+ by level + up to 50% commission. Experienced recruiters step straight onto a 360 desk; sharp people from the industry can start on the tools and develop up. Sponsorship available for the right person.
Labour Hire: Allocations / Compliance / Candidate Coordination
Keep the desk moving. Confirm, chase and fill shifts same-day across our labour hire pool. Manage compliance, coordinate candidates, and run daily allocations against live client rosters. Fast, operational, and a clear pathway to step up into a consultant role if that is where you want to head.
Labour Hire: Attraction / Induction / Bench Building
Supply is the job. Source, attract and induct trades, labourers and blue-collar workers so the allocation desk always has depth to draw on. Run the induction pipeline, keep the bench warm, and make sure no shift goes unfilled for want of a worker. Suits someone who loves candidate-side and wants to own a number.
Permanent: Talent Pooling / Headhunting / Pipeline Management
Keep the perm consultants supplied with qualified candidates. Source, screen and pipeline candidates for the permanent desks: talent pooling, headhunting, interview prep and keeping the perm pipeline warm so the 360 consultants can focus on client and close. Candidate-facing and central to how the perm desks perform.
Labour Hire: Trades / Site Staff / Construction
Full 360 labour hire desk placing trades and site staff across Construction, Civil, Building Services and Manufacturing. You run both ends: BD to win the clients and sourcing to fill the shifts. Warm client relationships already in place and live work from day one. Sponsorship available for the right person.
Fitout / Residential / Commercial / Civil / Building Services
Full 360 desk placing permanent professional roles across Fitout, Residential, Commercial, Civil and Building Services. Longer sales cycles, larger fees. Choose your sector lane and build a book with an established client base behind you. Sponsorship available for the right person.
Payroll / Compliance / Onboarding / Systems & Support
The engine room that keeps every desk running. Payroll processing, compliance tracking, candidate onboarding, and the systems and support work that means consultants and allocators can focus on billing. If you are sharp, process-driven and want to work inside a growing recruitment business, this is the team.
Market Specialisms
HBG recruits across four distinct construction and trades markets. You pick a specialism, build deep sector knowledge, and own that space within the team.
Fire / Mechanical / HVAC / Electrical
This desk has a proven billing history of $200K per year and comes with five to eight live roles from day one. Clients are tier 2 building services contractors across NSW and VIC. You will recruit Project Managers, Estimators, Service Managers, and commissioning specialists. It is a niche market with high fees and strong repeat business, ideal for a recruiter who wants to build deep relationships in a specialised sector.
Tier 1 and 2 / Fitout / New Build
Project Managers, Site Managers, Contract Administrators, and Project Engineers on projects valued from $1M to $100M and above. The established client base spans NSW, VIC, and QLD, covering commercial new builds, retail fitouts, and office refurbishments. This is a high-value permanent recruitment desk with strong fee margins and national reach.
Multi-Res / High-Density
Covering multi-residential and high-density builds across NSW, VIC, and QLD. Roles include Project Managers, Contract Administrators, Estimators, and Site Managers. Australia’s housing pipeline means this desk has consistent demand and a growing client base. Ideal for someone who wants to specialise in one of the fast-growing segments of the construction market.
Trades / Civil / Manufacturing / Warehousing
This is a high-volume, phone-heavy desk with massive upside. You will have access to 860+ signed clients and 10,800+ inducted candidates ready to deploy. The work is fast-paced business development, filling orders same-day, building contractor relationships, and growing margin through volume. Perfect for someone who thrives on pace and loves the grind of daily fills.
Genuine 360 recruiters (or ready to operate like one)
Commercially sharp on fees, conversion, urgency, and delivery
Phone-strong and consistent billers
Comfortable with construction decision-makers
Recruitment or sales experience for the 360 desks, or the drive to start on the tools and develop up
Construction experience preferred, but strong recruiters from other sectors welcome
Visa sponsorship available for the right person
Driven by autonomy, not micromanagement
The Desks You Would Run
HBG runs two engines side by side: a high-volume labour hire book built on daily placements and a permanent desk placing white-collar and specialist talent in construction, engineering, and industry. Most consultants own one engine; a few run both. Either way, you are billing into markets that pay well and never run dry.
Labour Hire
Construction, civil, industrial, and logistics. These desks run on volume: weekly orders, daily placements, and a warm candidate pool that compounds as the desk grows. Fast-paced, high-frequency, repeatable billing.
Permanent Recruitment
Project managers, engineers, commercial leaders, and operations heads. Higher placement values, longer sales cycles, and relationship-led work with tier-1 and tier-2 builders, consultancies, and manufacturers.
A snapshot, not the full list. These are the desks we run today. New verticals open as the business grows, and consultants who know their market have latitude to pitch a niche we do not yet cover. If you have a ready book in a trade or sector not listed here, that is a conversation worth having.
Experienced recruiters can build their own vertical. If you already own a market cold, bring it. We hand you the candidate pool, the back office, and the infrastructure so you can run your desk your way. The groundwork is already laid.
The Live Book
This is not a brochure list. It is the actual demand and open roles moving through HBG today, pulled live from our systems. It is the book you would be recruiting into.
Build Your Own Desk
If you know your space and you know how to bill, you do not need us to teach you recruitment. You need an engine behind you. Build a brand-new desk from scratch, your way, or plug straight into our warm existing clients and live orders. Your call. Either way we hand you the infrastructure to run it like it is your own business, without the risk of going out on your own.
Build From Scratch
Bring your own market and run it your way. We give you the tools, the candidate pool and the back office so you are building a desk, not chasing paperwork.
Or Inherit Warm Clients
Prefer a running start? Step onto our warm existing clients and live job orders and bill from day one. No cold desk, no starting from zero.
Go out on your own and it all lands on you: payroll, compliance, insurance, invoicing and chasing money, funding your own tools, and no team to cover a hard role or a sick day. Here, that is handled.
128,000+ Candidate Pool
A warm database and inducted, job-ready workers from day one, not a cold start.
Payroll, Compliance & Onboarding, Done
The back office runs itself. You place; we handle the paperwork, pay runs and tickets.
Live Tech & The Grid
Our allocation grid, Cortex tooling and automation do the admin so you stay on the phone and in front of clients.
Up To 50% Commission
Keep up to half of everything the desk bills, paid monthly. Uncapped, every band published.
Pick Your Model
Labour hire volume, permanent value, or a hybrid. Your desk, your call.
No KPIs, No Micromanagement
Run your desk your way. We back you and get out of the way.
All the upside of your own agency. None of the back-office risk.
Tell us the desk you would build and the numbers you would run. If you know your shit, we will back you to build it here.
Pitch Your DeskFor Experienced Billers
Starting your own agency is a real option. We are not going to pretend it is not. Here is an honest look at what you are actually taking on versus what landing here looks like.
Cold start: no clients, no candidate database, no signed terms.
You carry all the admin: payroll, compliance, insurance and invoicing.
Chasing unpaid invoices is on you, and a sole trader has little weight to make a slow client pay.
No team to fill your hard roles; if you are sick or away, billing stops.
You fund your own tools (ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards) out of pocket.
All the risk on you.
Warm desk: 860+ signed client accounts and 10,800+ inducted workers to draw on from day one, plus live job orders already on the board.
Full support team: a dedicated allocator, candidate manager and two BDMs feeding leads so you sell, not drown in admin.
Collaborative floor: a labour order hits the team chat and gets filled fast; you earn 30% for helping fill someone else's desk.
Enterprise tool stack included: JobAdder, LinkedIn Recruiter, in-house automation, Lusha, and more.
The security of an established business behind you: HBG has the weight to demand and collect payment that a sole trader or small agency does not, so a client who pays late is not your personal cashflow crisis.
A steady paycheque while you build, with the pressure to perform still on. Not a free ride, but not a knife-edge either.
Uncapped commission up to 50%, paid monthly, plus base and super. None of the overheads.
Straight From People Who Have Done Both
More than one recruiter here ran their own agency first. They are brilliant at the recruiting, but the business side, tax, payroll tax, admin, all of it, was pulling them off their billing. They joined HBG for the commission structure and the team around them, and one told us he ended up earning more here after all the headaches of running a business were gone.
The upside of your own desk, without carrying all the risk alone.
From Site to Desk
Running crews, coordinating civil plant, or supervising on site takes years to learn. We are not going to teach you that part. We hire people who already have it, then train them to convert that knowledge into a billing desk. Most of our best consultants came from the industry.
You do not need to have recruited before. You need to know construction.
Two roles suit people coming from the industry directly.
The closest move from site. You match workers to jobs, handle last-minute changes, and keep clients on track on the day. If you have run crews or coordinated labour on site, this is the direct translation. The tools change. The judgement calls are the same.
Placing trades and site staff into construction, civil, and industrial clients. Your site network is the asset. The subbies, project managers, and contractors you already know are your first-call client base. We teach you to convert those relationships into signed agreements and filled orders.
No prior recruitment experience required.
Industry credibility
You can talk machines, tickets, and site conditions without notes. Clients trust you on the first call because you have lived the work.
Relationship-first instincts
You build rapport easily and follow through. The subbie who always called you back did it because you were straight with them. That is the quality we are hiring.
Drive to earn
Recruitment rewards performance directly. If you have ever pushed hard to hit a deadline on site, you already know how to operate under a target.
Your first three months
A structured ramp. You are billing by the end of it, not still watching.
Weeks 1 to 2
Learn the tools: JobAdder, the HBG allocations platform, compliance workflows, and how orders move from client request to worker on site. You shadow senior consultants on live fills.
Weeks 3 to 6
Start building your worker bench. Sourcing, screening, inducting candidates, and building the ticket and licence picture. You handle inbound enquiries and support fills under a senior consultant.
Weeks 7 to 12
Your first outbound client conversations and first solo fills, with a senior consultant alongside you on every call. By week 12 you own your first accounts and are working to target.
Paid a Resourcer base while you learn, discussed at interview.
Coming from the industry? Send a text. No CV, no forms, no recruiter games.
Working in Australia
We sponsor the right people. If you can bill, talk to us.
Occupation lists, subclass, and who covers costs are discussed at interview.
Sponsorship is not automatic, but it is genuinely on the table. As a guide:
Three months on target.
Consecutive months hitting your billing target.
Clear path to profitability.
Within twelve months for junior roles, six months for senior and above.
Senior? More flexibility.
The more proven you are, the more we can move on these timelines.
These are guidelines, not hard rules. The specifics of occupation lists, subclass, and fees are discussed at interview.
If you are a UK or Irish recruiter in Sydney on a working holiday visa, talk to us. We have brought people in on a working holiday visa before and we are open to it.
There is a pathway from working holiday to sponsorship. We prefer to walk you through it one on one rather than set expectations in print.
Visa conditions, occupation lists, and costs are discussed at interview.
Ready to Talk?
Text the HBG Hiring Team
Send a quick message and we will schedule a confidential chat around your situation. No commitment, no CV required upfront.
A Day in the Life
Labour hire and permanent recruitment run at genuinely different speeds. One fills shifts by 8 am off the allocation grid; the other compounds a placement book over months of real relationships. Inside both worlds are multiple seats: allocators, resourcers, 360 perm consultants, and an ops team keeping the engine running. Office Monday to Thursday, home on Friday. Here is how each world actually runs.
Labour Hire
Fast-pacedThe grid runs the routine. Your job is the exceptions, the phone, and the bench. Scoreboard resets every morning.
7:30
7:30
Grab a coffee and open the allocation grid. In two minutes you can see what needs filling today: which shifts are confirmed, which sites are short, and where yesterday left a gap. No spreadsheets, no guessing.
8:00
8:00
The busiest window. Confirm today's shifts, chase the no-shows before the client even notices, and fill the gaps straight off the grid. A worker pulls out at 7:45 and you have a replacement on the way by 8:10.
10:30
10:30
The whole room hits the phones together, 10:30 to 12. Music up, energy up, a bit of a leaderboard going. Client check-ins, new orders for the coming days, and sourcing to cover them, all done shoulder to shoulder. It is competitive but a laugh, and the momentum carries you straight through to lunch.
12:00
12:00
Off the phones and around the table. On in-office days the team eats together, sometimes cooked in the office, sometimes out around Surry Hills. It is where the wins get shared and the culture actually lives.
1:00
1:00
Get ahead of tomorrow. Source and induct new workers, top up the bench, and do the business development that grows your desk. Every good conversation now is a shift you can fill next week without scrambling.
3:30
3:30
Wind down by getting ahead. Tomorrow's shifts confirmed on the grid, dockets chased so payroll is clean, and loose ends tied off before you leave. You walk out knowing the morning is already half sorted.
The Rhythm
The rhythm is same-day. Fills happen in minutes, not weeks. The system carries the routine so you handle the exceptions and keep the bench deep enough to never scramble. If you love pace and a win you can measure before lunch, this is your world.
Not sure which world fits?
Tell us how you like to work: fast and operational, deep on candidate supply, relationship-driven on a full 360 desk, or behind the scenes in ops. Both worlds are here, and we will point you at the seat that suits you.
See open rolesNot a Floor of Islands
Most recruitment floors are individual desks that happen to share a postcode. Here, orders, workers, and wins move across the whole team. The structure is built so helping each other pays directly.
Shared Pool, Individual Reward
A labour order hits the team chat instantly. Anyone puts a worker forward, the desk owner approves, and whoever made the allocation earns 30% of the engagement. You get paid for filling someone else's order. The whole pool works for you, every day.
10:30 am to 12 pm, Daily
Both the perm and labour hire teams hit the phones together every morning. Music on, leaderboard visible, energy high. One hour of coordinated outreach that moves every desk forward, not just yours.
3 pm, Every Day
Hard roles get solved together at 3 pm, not left to go stale on one person's desk. The whole team reviews open orders and fills gaps. If you have a worker spare and a colleague has a gap, everyone wins.
You Choose How You Run It
Run your desk solo and keep the full commission, or take account management and allocation support to scale faster. Both paths are valid. Neither is penalised. The model fits around the recruiter, not the other way around.
You are never stuck with a hard role or short of workers. The team fills it together, and the commission model makes sure everyone is incentivised to do exactly that.
We Back You While You Warm Up
Changing desks means a warm-up, and we plan for it. New starters ramp onto target over the first three months, so you are backed while you rebuild instead of thrown in at the deep end.
Month 1
50%
of target
Find your feet
Month 2
75%
of target
Build your pipeline
Month 3
100%
of target
Full stride
Your Career Path
A clear, transparent path with real numbers, no guesswork, no corporate ladders.
Month 1-3
$70K to $110K Base
Month 4-12
$120K to $160K earnings
Year 1-2
$180K to $220K earnings
Year 2+
Top billers earn $250K+
Want to see what each stage actually pays?
The commission calculator below lets you plug in your expected billing and see real take-home numbers, no guesswork.
The Ladder Is Real
Every rung is earned on numbers and clients, not politics or time served. We promote from within, and the individual-contributor summit pays as well as the leadership one. You choose which way you climb.
Level 1
$70K to $75K base + bonus
Candidate-side. Learn the market, build and warm the bench so the desk always has supply to place. The best resourcers are consultants-in-waiting.
Promoted on candidate quality and placements sourced.
Level 2
$120K to $160K earnings, on approx. $25K to $38K billed per month
Own a desk. Take the order, source the candidate, close the placement. Labour hire volume or perm value, your call.
Promoted on a consistent, self-generated billing run.
Level 3
$180K to $220K earnings, on approx. $42K to $51.5K billed per month
Deep desk, deep relationships. A market specialist clients call first, with a book that compounds year on year.
Promoted on sustained billing and client retention.
Level 4
$250K+ earnings on approx. $57K+ billed per month, up to 50% commission
Top biller, no management overhead. Stay on the tools, own your market, earn up to 50% of everything you bill. The individual-contributor summit.
Stay here permanently if you choose. No forced move into management.
Level 5
Your same commission, plus a mentor role
Keep billing on your same commission while you mentor and train a pod of consultants. Coach, hire and develop your people. You keep your own numbers.
For billers who want to build people, not just placements.
Level 6
Leadership package + team profit share
Step up to help run the team. Own a market or branch P&L, grow the desk group, and share in the profit your team generates.
For proven leaders shaping the direction of a whole vertical.
Level 7
Senior leadership package
A genuine seat at the table, with a real say in strategy and a hand on where HBG goes next.
The ceiling is a title you earn, not politics.
Not Theory. It Has Been Done Here.
One of our best billers started as a junior and, within five years, grew into a senior consultant who helped launch our Queensland market. The ladder is real because our own people have already climbed it.
Two ways up: stay a Principal biller on up to 50% commission, or mentor a pod while keeping your own numbers. Nobody is pushed into management to keep earning.
Where HBG Is Going
HBG is a fast-growing national recruitment group. Sydney is our HQ, with a footprint reaching across Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Auckland, and Queensland is the newest market we have opened. We are not just a Sydney agency. The seats are not all taken. Join now and you are not slotting into a finished machine, you are shaping the next markets, the next desks, and the next leaders. The junior who became a senior consultant helped launch QLD. The next market could be yours.
AU+NZ
Footprint
Sydney HQ + interstate
QLD
Latest Market
Launched, and growing
Within
We Promote
Juniors become leaders
Next
More Markets
You help open them
In Their Own Words
Do not take our word for it. Hear it straight from the team. From the MD to the newest consultant, here is what life at HBG actually looks like and why our people choose to stay.
HBG Mash-Up
Managing Director
Recruitment Consultant
Recruitment Consultant
Compliance & Operations
General Manager
These are your future teammates. There are desks open right now.
Already billing somewhere else? Have a quiet, confidential chat first. No CV needed, no obligation. Message or call and we will talk desks, clients and what you would earn here.
Staff Stories
The best measure of a place is what its people say about it when nobody is selling them anything. Here are a few of ours, in their own words.
“I left to try something completely different. Twenty-two days later I was back at my desk. I missed the team, I missed the buzz on the floor, and honestly I missed the work. You do not realise how good a place is until you go and stand somewhere else for a bit.”
Bradley Elliott is a consultant who walked out the door, gave a different career path a real go, and then rang us to ask if his seat was still warm. It was. He picked his desk back up and never looked back.
We think that is the truest thing anyone can say about a workplace. Plenty of people talk about culture. Not many people leave, see what else is out there, and choose to come home. Bradley did.
Bradley Elliott
Consultant. Left, came back after 22 days, and stayed.
“I started with Harrison Barratt Group back in May, moving over from healthcare recruitment. Having a construction background, it made sense to take this path. Ever since coming here, the team has grown into a recruitment machine. Everyone supports each other and helps each other. It is safe to say I made the right decision, and here is to many years to come.”
Ed brought years of healthcare recruitment experience and a real construction background into a desk that matched both. He did not need to start from scratch: the market he already understood was right here, and the platform meant he was billing from the first week.
Ed
Consultant. Moved from healthcare recruitment, backed by a construction background.
The pattern is clear
Bradley left and came back after 22 days. Ed crossed from a different industry and is already building years. When people find the right desk, they stay.
Want to hear it straight from the team? Come in, meet the floor, and ask them yourself.
Life at HBG
Our headquarters sits in the heart of Surry Hills, Sydney, with additional offices in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Auckland. The vibe is competitive but collaborative: pool table breaks, knock-off drinks, team celebrations, and a culture where hitting targets actually gets rewarded.
Our Surry Hills HQ and our people: 480sqm of open-plan workspace, plus anniversaries, team wins, and the little moments along the way.
The Surry Hills HQ spans 480 square metres across a single open-plan floor. It was designed to feel like a place people actually want to spend time in, not a corporate office with fluorescent lights and grey carpet. The office features a full-size pool table, a golf simulator, a dartboard, a stocked beer and wine fridge, and a kitchen area that doubles as the hub for knock-off drinks, weekly team lunches on in-office days, and impromptu celebrations. We even had a makeshift bowling lane during the fitout.
The floor gets on the phones together from 10:30 to 12. Seniors run their own desk their own way. It sets the tone for the day and it is one of the things that makes the office worth being in.
Team events are a regular part of life at HBG. Weekly team lunches happen on in-office days, sometimes cooking up in the office, sometimes heading out around Surry Hills. The in-office week winds down with drinks, and bigger milestones get proper recognition. Melbourne Cup day is a highlight, with the full team dressing up, sweepstakes running all morning, and the afternoon given over to celebration. Recent trips include the Hunter Valley, weekends away, team dinners at top restaurants, and activity days for top billers. We took the team to the NRL recently, so it’s not all work.
The working week runs four days in the office and one day from home. Hours are a flexible 8am to 5pm. Every consultant receives a new MacBook and iPhone on their first day, no BYOD, no waiting period. HBG-branded utes are available for client meetings and site visits, and a centralised admin, compliance, and marketing team handles the back-office work so consultants can focus on billing.
We Celebrate Everything
At a lot of agencies you are a number until you leave. Not here. HBG marks every anniversary and every birthday, not just the round ones.
How to Apply
We keep the process short because good recruiters do not have time for six-round interview loops. No cover letter, no personality test, no homework. A conversation, a meeting, a decision.
A short email with who you are and what you are looking for. No formal cover letter required, no CV if you are not ready. Just enough for us to know you are interested.
A quick conversation about your experience, which desk interests you, and any questions you have about HBG. No preparation needed. This is a two-way chat, not an interview.
Come and see the office, meet the team, and walk the commission structure in detail. You will see the actual desk you would sit on and the live roles already on it.
If it is a mutual fit, you will receive an offer within 48 hours. Onboarding includes full tech setup, warm client introductions, and live roles on your desk from day one.
Apply NowAlready billing somewhere else and just curious? Start with a confidential chat instead. No CV, no obligation, 20 minutes to see whether it is worth taking further.
Referral Programme
Get rewarded when they join our team.
Refer a recruiter we hire and who passes probation and we will look after you. Ask us about the current referral bonus.
FAQ
For Recruiters & Consultants
Every experienced recruiter considering a move has the same six questions. Here they are, answered straight.
No. You inherit an established client base with warm contacts, live job orders on day one, and a candidate bench of 10,800+ inducted workers already in the system. The groundwork is done.
Tiered, climbing to 50%, paid monthly on every dollar you bill with no holdbacks. Below target you still earn at half the band rate. The bands are published on this page, not buried in an offer letter.
You own your desk. The MD still recruits every single day and works beside you, not above you in a sign-off chain. There are no KPI dashboards being scrutinised over your shoulder. Results matter; the method is yours.
New MacBook and iPhone on your first day, no BYOD. Your stack includes JobAdder, LinkedIn Recruiter, SEEK, Lusha, and proprietary in-house automation built specifically for construction recruitment. Most agencies won't catch up for years.
The first three months are a structured ramp. Expectations are adjusted, not used against you. You get warm introductions to clients, live job orders from week one, and direct mentorship from the MD. We want the desk billing, so we set you up to do exactly that.
Sponsorship is available for the right person. If your experience is strong and construction recruitment is your lane, your visa situation is not a barrier to having the conversation.
Straight talk
We would rather you find out now than three months in.
Four days in the office, and the floor is the point. If you do your best work alone on a laptop, this is not the place.
We are a growing independent, and you help build the name. If you need a household brand on your resume to feel secure, we are probably not the right fit.
You are backed for three months, then the desk is yours to bill. We invest in your start, and then we expect you to run.
We measure results and expect you to run your own desk. No KPI dashboards over your shoulder, no daily call tallies. If you need that structure to perform, we are the wrong agency.
$70K to $120K+
Base Salary
Junior to Lead, by level
Up to 50%
Commission
Of every dollar billed, uncapped
80%
of full-year consultants earned over $150K in FY26
Base plus commission
New MacBook + iPhone from day one
Warm client base handed over at onboarding
10,800+ inducted candidates in the database
Proprietary AI tooling your current agency doesn't have
Centralised admin, with compliance, payroll, and marketing handled
MD mentorship from someone who still recruits daily
Up to 33 days a year, including your standard 20 days.
Visa sponsorship available for the right person
Top billers earned $220K to $250K or more in FY26
All conversations are completely confidential. If you’re curious, a 20-minute call is all it takes.
Apply Now
Fill in the form below. No formal cover letter needed, just a short intro about who you are and what you are looking for. All enquiries are confidential.
Prefer email? Send your CV directly to ops@harrisonbarratt.com.au text us on SMS or call 1300 HBG 24/7
We welcome candidate submissions from rec-to-rec partners by prior arrangement only. Unsolicited CVs are not accepted and create no fee entitlement. If you would like to become a submission partner, or you are a recruiter who wants to work at HBG, email ops@harrisonbarratt.com.au.
Page updated October 2026.