Recruitment data
Assemble the rate and salary evidence that exists, with the sample size beside every figure, and refuse to show a number below the floor.
The four answers
- Who buys it
- Firms hiring in a market where they cannot tell whether their offer is competitive, and agencies pricing work against a rate they are guessing at.
- What stays human
- Every decision about a person. We will not build shortlisting, scoring or ranking of candidates: see the exclusion below.
- How it is charged
- Fixed fee per market study. Not a subscription to a number that has not changed.
- The system behind it
- A rate index: missing. No repository exists at the expected path, which is why the day-rate tool asks you to type the quotes in yourself and this offer runs on published sources rather than an index of our own.
Before you buy it
An n<3 floor is not a nicety. A day rate quoted from two data points is a rumour with a decimal place, and the tool that would show it renders “not enough data” instead.
And the general test, which applies to this offer as much as any other: six questions that settle whether a task should be automated at all. Five of its eight verdicts are some form of no.
Checked 24 September 2026. Any figure on this page is restated from We checked five AI statistics we were about to publish. Three had no source and What to automate first in an advice firm, and what to never automate, where it carries its source, its weight and the date it is next due, and where it is listed on the public register with every other number on this site. If one has gone stale before we got to it, tell us.
One job, named. Tell us which.
Not “automate the back office”. The specific thing that is eating the hours, with the six audit records written into the statement of work before anything is built.