Your commissions ladder up as you close more placements across all your referred clients combined. Placements 1–9 each pay $500. Placements 10–19 each pay $750. Every placement from #20 onward pays $1,000. The ladder is marginal, so each placement pays at the rate of its position in your sequence — not retroactively bumped up when you cross into a higher tier. Your tier is permanent: once you reach it, you keep it. We don't reset anyone at the end of the year and we don't demote anyone for going quiet.

12 months from that client's first hire, not from the day they clicked your link. So if they click in January and hire in March, your 12 months runs March to March. Every referred company has its own independent 12-month window — the clock resets per company.

Bi-weekly, on the 1st and the 15th. Once a placement goes live, your commission clears a 30-day holding period, then goes out on the next payout run. In practice you see the money 30 to 45 days after your referral's new hire starts. No minimum threshold — if you've earned $500 you get $500. PayPal, Stripe Connect, or ACH, your choice.

If your first referral results in a placement within 60 days of you joining, we add $250 on top of your commission. The first one is the hardest one, so we pay for it.

Anyone you refer gets $500 off their first hire, no matter your tier. It rides on your link and gets applied automatically on their Mercury invoice — nothing for them to remember, no code to enter. The discount doesn't come out of your commission. You earn full, they get their full discount.

Yes. Choose our pass-through option and we double the discount to the company instead — $1,000 off their first hire. You take nothing, so there's nothing to disclose and no conflict to manage. Same cost to us either way. Just tell us when you apply, or any time after.

Through your unique link. When someone clicks it and later fills a form or books a call, we tag it to you. Cookies last 90 days. If two partners refer the same company, the first link clicked inside the 90-day window gets credit — the rule is published up front so nobody has to argue about it afterwards.

Tell us. Send us the company name when you make the intro, and we'll attribute it manually. We'd rather do a minute of admin than have you lose a commission on a technicality. Same goes if they inquire from one email and pay from another — common with finance teams, we match it up by hand.

We re-recruit for that client free of charge within six months, and you keep everything you earned. A good introduction doesn't stop being good because somebody's circumstances changed. We tell you when it happens rather than letting you hear it from your referral. No clawbacks — once a placement is live, the commission is yours.

A U.S. founder or operator at a $1M–$50M company making their 10th hire, not their first. Someone already hiring, already feeling the payroll maths, already sophisticated enough to know that a brilliant person in Medellín or Cape Town is a brilliant person. A first-time founder making their first hire is not ready and it wastes everyone's time.

Yes, except on Marco-branded keywords. Bidding on our own brand name buys traffic we already have and makes attribution a mess. Everything else is fair game.

Everything on this page is written into our Partner Program Terms — commission tiers, attribution rules, payout timing, the no-clawback policy, and what you can and can't do when promoting Marco. Accepting them is part of the application. They sit alongside our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Free. No fee to apply, no fee to participate. We make money when you make money.