I once worked at a recruiting company, we'll call them Bobby One-Third. Here's how they treated their recruiters:
The pay structure was highly skewed towards commission from meeting certain goals (as many sales positions are). If they didn't meet those goals one month, the deficit would roll over to the next month and the next month, etc, and they wouldn't get commission until they met the goals for all months. The goals would increase every month, and every year, and would very obviously not keep up with the amount of open positions and candidates available. So most recruiters would end up in “the hole” and never make commission.
I noticed that most recruiters were young, between 23-26 mostly, and turnover was crazy high.
Then I realized that this is a feature, not a bug. Bobby One-Third wants a revolving door of young workers that they can exploit. They promise excellent pay “as long as you meet sales goals!”…but makes those goals impossible. It's a cruel bait and switch and I'm disgusted that I worked for/with that company at all.