Incentives for recruiters to negotiate lower level/TC

Tech recruiters on Blind.

I’ve been negotiating with a few recruiters and cannot fathom why/how do companies get recruiters to be so aggressive about getting a candidate for lower TC or level.

It would be interesting if you could share some of the ways companies incentivize this behavior.

I understand there could be other factors like hiring committee recommendations, hiring manager feeling candidate might be better at lower level, mediocre interview performance, etc.

But I would like to know if everything else was positive are you still encouraged to hire lower/compensate less? And how?

It’s not your money.

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