Posted by NPAworldwide Headquarters on May 22, 2025

A commonly-asked question about posting candidates on the NPAmarketplace is, "What is the 'Percentage of Client Fee' field?" It is frequently misunderstood as being the *split* percentage between trading partners (which is ALWAYS assumed to be 47.5% to each partner, with the remaining 5% paid to NPAworldwide as brokerage).

The Percentage of Client Fee field refers to the fee the job-side recruiter will receive from the client. Candidate-side recruiters are able to say they won't accept "less than" a particular client fee for the placement of a particular candidate. That is what gets entered into this field. If you put "any" it means you will accept 47.5% of *any fee* the job-side recruiter collects from the client. If you put 25%, it lets the job-side recruiter know they may not submit that candidate for any role that involves a client fee that is less than 25%. In other words, if the fee arrangement is 20% or a flat-fee of $10,000, your candidate may not be submitted for that role.