Do Army Recruiters get a bonus for hiring new recruits?

Nope, we don't get bonuses. it is a hard job! you get cussed out by parents all the time. school people hate you, and you get people that bring there high school dropout, on probation, got another charge pending kids to us to try to get them in the military.

you work 6 or 7 days a week, normally about 12 hours a day (except on weekends, about 4 to 8)

we receive recruiter pay, but that is like any other special duty pay. and man, if you don't get your target, you have to go to classes and are treated like dirt, to the point of almost tears. there have been cases of recruiters committing suicide.

people think of the military as a last choice for losers, If they only knew (only about 30% of the people in the US have ever served in the military.

(I am sorry about your situation, however, you have to keep in mind, that your recruiter has a 1sgt, and they will make you send somebody, even if you feel that the person should be deferred. My 1sgt made me drive to Chicago (I was in the St.Louis recruiting battalion) to get a guy, that left because he didn't want to go in. I drove there, and called my 1sgt, and told him I couldn't find the guy, i got back home about 5 in the morning, and had to be back in my office by 8.)

Look folks,

I just left a 3 year assignment with Army Recruiting - and I can tell you, without any hesitation whatsoever, that we DO NOT get paid for recruits.

Army recruiters get an extra $450 per month by just being a recruiter - REGARDLESS of if they put someone in the Army or not that month. The $450 is Special Duty Pay, and is used to defray costs that we have because we don't get to live on a base, and don't have access to what we would have on base.

So - just so we are clear on this - Army recruiters DON"T GET PAID PER RECRUIT! Heck, I've gone for a couple of months without anyone joining and guess what? Still got my $450.

Your husband could have refused to leave. We can't "force" someone to ship. He can't be dishonorably discharged for not shipping - because he isn't in until he actually LEAVES for Basic Training!! Delayed Entry status is simply a unpaid reserve spot, so his training is reserved, and he is ready to go and swear in the 2nd time when he ships.

I find it hard to believe that a Regular Army recruiter behaved as you have described. If that is the truth, then contact the Sacramento Battalion Commander. It's in the phone book under Army Recruiting in Rancho Cordova. What station did this take place at? I just left that battalion.

Quite a sob story. And hard to believe that a recruiter would refuse to take care of a new enlistees family. But the good side is your hospital stay has just been paid for. And your husband has a steady paycheck starting to come in, with regular raises.

Still a 2 hour window is hard to swallow.

And no a recruiter does not get a bonus.

How Do Recruiters Get Paid

No but the recruiters do have to meet a quota, set forth by their respective service. Unfortunately recruiters often do tell potential recruits whatever they have to to get them to sign. The fact that the recruiter told him he would get a dishonorable discharge if he didnt go was a lie. What he would have gotten would have been a administrative seperation.

It depends....I work right next door to Army Recruiters, a few of them are pretty good friends of mine...this is what they told me. At some recruiting stations (like the one next door) they have hired civilian contractors to recruit for the U.S Army, those contractors are paid by salary and are also given bonuses depending on the jobs their applicants book and how many applicants they do book per fiscal year.

The military "green suiters" who work in there are paid according to their rank and they DO NOT receive any bonuses for the applicants they recruit.

After watching the military fall through on many of the promises the recruiter guaranteed my nephew and his buddy upon leaving the service (the paperwork disappeared), my advice to recruits is get everything in writing and keep a copy for your records.

My daughters recruiter, is lying his behind off, and having the nerve to tell me he is a christian. Told me she never has to do active duty,, (yet convincing her to sign a 5 year contract). Told her as a medic she will never see war,, or combat, told her we are in peace time. he is lying through his crooked teeth to get my daughter who is 18 just turned 18 on the 8th of this month in the Army. Our plans in the beginning were for her to go to college and she has been in college since 17 for nursing in Chicago. She is in a whole different city as me, so I have not enjoyed 1 day of her in her adulthood. Not one. I m sick.. but they have to be getting something, because why else would they straight out lie to them.

ok here im going to tell you again....NO RECRUITERS DONT GET A BONUS FOR PUTTING PEOPLE IN THE ARMY!!! that being said, you husband should have gotten paperwork with his changed dates for basic because other than that words mean nothing. i highly doubth that it happened exactly like that but if it did your husband should have refused to go because your "real" contract doesnt start until the day you leave for training...

let me re-iterate recruiters dont make anything extra by getting people in the army, do you get extra money for taking care of your kids? no right..did your husband get extra money for doing his job? recruiters are doing their jobs and unfortuneately your husband got one of the @sshole bad ones

yes they do! That is the British Army, My friend got £1,000 Pound for every solider that passed phase 2 training. Was a long wait but worth it, always they get issued cards to hand out if on the tiles, it has a special number on, so when and if that person joins up, and passes, that solider will get a nice bonus.