Billing managers in recruitment get paid on team performance but earn almost nothing for it, while also hitting personal targets. The role is a bad combination that most recruiters avoid, preferring to stay individual contributors focused on their own desk.
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Sometimes recruiters have a desire to become a billing manager, which is the worst job in recruitment hands down, and they don't realize it. And so as a billing manager, you've got to manage the team. You get paid on the team's performance. You get very little for the team's performance. Your billings drop. You get paid on your own billings. And it's just like this really bad, like, combination of structure for a billing manager that I find doesn't, doesn't work well. And I don't know why if I'm thinking of this wrong, or I'm the only guy that's worked this out. But being a billing manager, uh, it sucks. But some people need to become a billing manager to realize it sucks and then go, I would much prefer to be an individual contributor, focus on my own desk, bring in the money for myself, earn lots of money. And you know, that's what I get a lot of value out of. So