Recruitment companies have to source roles for their business to work. They'll contact these companies, 1 in 10 will say yes to the approach and they'll land candidates for 1 in 10 of those.

600 roles paying average of $80k, means they land 6 roles at an average commission of 12.5% of first year salary = $60k. They can afford to throw you 2k for this.

Woah, That's an interesting perspective. I didn't know this can be useful for recruitment companies. Thanks for sharing.

I'll try to pitch a few companies to see how they will react!

It's worth saying that the sourcing roles is probably the easy part of their business - sourcing candidates being the hard part.