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Cost to hire a recruiter in Georgia

Georgia's 1% small business status lists staffing services among excluded activities, which can push a recruiter onto the 20% general regime. At $910 a month you pay $959 as a contractor either way; an employer of record costs $1,777. A US recruiter at the BLS median costs 8.5 times as much.

$959contractor
$901take-home
$1,777EOR
$8,166US hire

You pay $959 a month as a contractor or $1,777 through an EOR. Contractor tax $9 a month. EOR: salary $1,155 for the same take-home, employer items $23, provider from $599.

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Starting pay for recruiters in Georgia

Geostat publishes earnings by occupation group, not by job title1. Recruiters sit in group 24 Business and Administration Professionals, whose employees averaged GEL 2,358.1 a month in 2025, about $909 at the 2026-11-12 rate2. That is 9% above the all-occupation average of GEL 2,165.2, and 66% more than in 2021 (GEL 1,422.4): rank 5 of the 9 groups we load from that table.

A recruiter as a contractor in Georgia

A recruiter in Georgia usually invoices you under small business status3456: $9 of a $910 invoice (GEL 2,360) goes to tax and contributions, 1.0%, barely a dent. The recruiter keeps $901.

Recruiter, Georgia, $910 a month
ItemGEL a monthUSD
Small business tax on turnoverGEL 24$9
Tax and contributions$9

Small business status excludes staffing services4, so a Georgian recruiter may not be able to use the 1% rate; the Revenue Service decides by registered activity. On the general regime the recruiter would pay up to $182 (20% of the whole invoice; deductible expenses lower it) and keep at least $728, up to $173 a month less.

A recruiter employed through an EOR

To keep $901 as an employee, the recruiter needs a gross salary of $1,155, 27% above the invoice: employee deductions take 22.0% of pay in Georgia53. The employer then adds $23, mostly pension contribution (employer).

Recruiter employed in Georgia, $1,155 a month
GEL a monthUSD
Gross salaryGEL 2,995$1,155
Employee deductionsGEL 659$254
Employer itemsGEL 60$23
Take-home$901

With a provider from $599 a month at list price, the EOR route costs $9,817 a year more than the contractor route for this recruiter.

Georgia against the other three for recruiters

Of the countries where recruiters can invoice on the usual regime, Georgia leaves them the largest share of the invoice: 99.0%, against 85.0% in Armenia.

We do not rank the four countries on cost for recruiters: Armenia and Ukraine publish no pay by occupation, so their starting pay is the national average, a placeholder. Compare them at one pay in the calculator above.

Recruiters hired at home

Recruiters hired locally, against $959 a month for a recruiter in Georgia
MarketMedian pay a monthEmployer cost a month× the Georgian route
United States78$6,328$8,1668.5×
United Kingdom9101112$4,092$4,7234.9×
Canada1312$4,134wage only4.3×
Australia141512$6,366$7,1287.4×

By the gap to a US hire, recruiters rank 6 of 17 roles in Georgia (8.5×); next to them are executive assistants (8.7×) and payroll specialists (8.5×).

Which US sectors employ recruiters

Where US recruiters work16
US sectorJobsMedian a year× the Georgian route
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services160,460$61,3406.9×
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services124,990$82,8009.3×
Health Care and Social Assistance105,300$64,1307.2×
Management of Companies and Enterprises73,460$79,9209.0×

The largest employer of US recruiters is administrative and support and waste management and remediation services, with 160,460 jobs at a median $61,340; the best-paid industry with 3,000 or more of them, broadcasting and content providers, pays $113,750, 12.8 times the Georgian route in employer cost.

Recruiters elsewhere

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Sources

16 sources, with links
  1. Geostat: average monthly nominal earnings of employees by occupation (ISCO-08), 2021 and 2025, xlsx: geostat.ge
  2. National Bank of Georgia, official exchange rate 2026-11-12: nbg.gov.ge
  3. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Georgia, Individual - Taxes on personal income: taxsummaries.pwc.com
  4. Andersen Georgia: What is Georgia's Small-Business Status: ge.andersen.com
  5. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Georgia, Individual - Other taxes (pension contributions): taxsummaries.pwc.com
  6. Revenue Service of Georgia: rs.ge
  7. BLS OEWS May 2025, 13-1071: bls.gov
  8. BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, private industry, June 2026: bls.gov
  9. ONS, ASHE Table 14 (occupation), 2026 provisional: ons.gov.uk
  10. GOV.UK, rates and thresholds for employers 2026 to 2027: gov.uk
  11. GOV.UK, workplace pensions: what you, your employer and the government pay: gov.uk
  12. ECB euro reference rates, 2026-11-03: ecb.europa.eu
  13. ESDC Job Bank, wages by occupation and economic region, 2025 release: open.canada.ca
  14. ABS, Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, May 2025, data cubes 11, 12 and 13: abs.gov.au
  15. ATO, super guarantee rates: ato.gov.au
  16. BLS OEWS May 2025, national industry-specific estimates: bls.gov

How these pages are built: methodology and data sources. Last updated 2026-11-12.