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Your numbers

Annual recruiter salary

$40,000$150,000

Average screening time

5 min60 min

Monthly applicants screened

5025,000

Your estimated savings

$115,385

$9,615

Saved per month

4,000

Recruiter hours reclaimed per year

Plus

  • Faster time-to-hire
  • Increase in candidate satisfaction
  • Increase in quality of hire

We've been using TextWork for 4 months

1. Did more interviews than all of last year

2. Fixed our onboarding

3. Halved our vacant positions

— Service business owner, Akron, OH

Common questions about screening cost

We take the minutes a recruiter typically spends on a first-round screen, multiply by how many applicants you see in a month, and annualize that at a 2,080-hour work year against the salary you entered.

That is the recruiter time TextWork can run over SMS instead. The Starter plan shown is the current public tier that covers that monthly volume.


TextWork texts every applicant the moment they apply, asks your screening questions, and sends a structured report back to your team.

Recruiters spend their hours on qualified people instead of chasing first-round replies.


The headline figure is recruiter time reclaimed. We also show the matching Starter plan and the net number after that subscription, so you can see both sides.


Most teams put them into submissions, hiring-manager conversations, and the candidates who actually need a human — not more first-round phone tag.


Yes. Book a demo and we will walk the calculator with your requisitions, screen length, and current process — then show a live conversation end to end.