Free calculator
What should a referral actually pay?
Set your agency fee and the reward pays for itself long before it's expensive. Run it per role, no email, no signup.
- No email, no signup
- One credit is one euro
- Numbers from 120 Dutch programs
The role
What an agency charges you
€4,500Your referral reward
1,000 cr · €1,000Split it: 100 cr on apply, 900 cr when the hire clears their trial period.
Hires you expect this year
kept, after the reward and the software.
You keep, per hire
€3,350
74% cheaper than the agency
- Agency fee
- €4,500
- Referral reward
- − €1,000
- Cruit, at €599 / mo ÷ 4 hires
- − €150
Not every role is referable. This maths only works where your people actually know candidates, we'd rather you find that out here than on invoice four.
How the maths works
Three numbers decide the reward
The calculator is only arithmetic. These are the three inputs behind it, and why each one is where it is.
The benchmark
The agency fee is the number to beat
Whatever an agency quotes for the role is what the vacancy already costs you when it goes unfilled. Price the reward against that, not against a gut feeling about what feels generous.
The split
Pay a little on apply, the rest on trial clear
A small credit when someone actually refers keeps the program alive between hires. The large half lands only once the hire has cleared their trial period, so a reward never outruns the result.
The software
One line, divided across the hires
The plan is flat, so the more the program produces the smaller the per-hire cost of the software gets. At €599 a month and four hires, it is €150 a hire, and it stops being the interesting number quickly.
Featured · 2026 edition
The Dutch referral benchmark report
Reward levels, share rates and cost per referred hire across 120 programs. What good looks like, in numbers.
Before you set a number
The awkward questions
The ones that decide whether a reward level survives contact with payroll.
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