Recruitment & Talent

Spectrum Search charges 15–20% of the first-year salary for successful permanent placements — the standard range across specialist Web3 recruitment. This is calculated on the total first-year compensation package. For senior technical roles where market salaries are high (senior smart contract engineers, protocol architects), this represents a meaningful investment, but is typically justified by the time and quality of candidates delivered.

Spectrum Search covers both technical and non-technical Web3 roles: smart contract engineers, protocol developers, security auditors, product managers, marketing leads, community managers, legal and compliance specialists, and business development roles. This breadth means a single agency relationship can serve a growing Web3 team's hiring needs across functions rather than requiring specialist recruiters for each discipline.

Plexus charges 15–20% of first-year salary for permanent placements — consistent with the specialist Web3 recruitment market. The firm's two-week sprint model for urgent hires is positioned as reducing total recruitment cost by compressing time-to-hire and reducing the management overhead of a prolonged search. For startups without dedicated HR, the time savings alone often justify the fee.

Plexus has built one of the largest Web3 talent databases globally — 600,000+ professionals across engineering, product, marketing, legal, and operations. This scale means the firm can typically draw on pre-qualified candidates rather than starting from scratch for each search, which is the primary driver of its two-week sprint capability for senior and specialist roles.

CryptoRecruit charges 15–20% of first-year salary for permanent placements — the standard specialist Web3 recruitment rate. Given the firm's focus on senior and highly specialised technical roles, the absolute fee amounts can be significant, but the depth of technical candidate access typically justifies the cost for companies hiring protocol architects, security auditors, or lead blockchain engineers.

CryptoRecruit specialises in senior blockchain engineering, protocol developer hiring, smart contract security, DeFi technical roles, remote engineering talent, and APAC Web3 recruitment. The firm's technical-first approach means it is optimised for the most technically demanding roles rather than generalist Web3 marketing or operations positions — making it the right choice when deep blockchain engineering expertise is the primary hiring challenge.