Paying the manager

[Mario Pende]

How much % would you give to a manager for finding you the job?

[Tommy L]

Do you mean an employment agency finding you a permanent job? Or an agent passing you 3d projects?

[Mario Pende]

2nd one

[Tommy L]

Id name a price for the work. If they can put a mark-up on it and the client still buys, they can keep the change. Just treat the middle man as the client. And definately get some money up-front.

[jean de lessard]

10 % of the project. And maximum 15% if he is a good seller.

 

not more than that, or you'll have problem to pay your bill

[ikinman]

A Standard that I work with is the above mentioned 10% of the price (which you should account for when pricing your fee.)

 

Also, you should reach some level of understanding about repeat business with that client - do you owe a percentage of additional projects that you get from that client to the 'manager' or salesman? Perhaps an additional 5% of fees from additional projects over the next year from that same client. Or perhaps nothing. There's not as much of a standard on that, but it pays to work it out in advance to avoid conflicts in the future.

 

At a certain point you and your manager need to recognize that the client will end up being 'yours.'

[jean de lessard]

here we do around 10% for the first year and 5% for the second year. Like that everyone like to send us clients.