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Top 25 Public affairs recruitment agencies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,067 public affairs recruitment agencies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 10,303 professional contacts across them, including 3,744 with verified work emails. Washington is the largest hub.
This list covers public affairs recruitment agencies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 29, 2026.
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The 25 largest public affairs recruitment agencies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mercury is a national bipartisan government relations and strategic communications firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SKDK provides strategic advice, public relations, crisis communications, advertising, direct mail, and research to national and international companies, advocacy organizations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategy + Execution = Results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Edelman’s public and government affairs team of consultants are trusted and experienced public affairs advisors-including former government officials, political advisors, policy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1993, Vitaver and Associates offers three decades of expertise in professional recruitment services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MultiState is a full-service state and local government relations company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stateside Associates is the largest state and local government affairs firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Monument Advocacy is a bipartisan firm that offers government relations, public affairs, strategic and crisis communications, and digital services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A full-service recruitment firm that specializes in assisting professional service businesses with their hiring needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ChaseSource is a minority owned company, specializing in recruiting and consulting that helps organizations solve their staffing problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NetBounce Placements" is a professional job search firm with a reputation for delivering real impact for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Do you need to hire exceptional talent?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sachs Media is a U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Nagler Group is at the forefront of staffing and recruiting in the human resources, legal and administrative industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ballard Partners specializes in all aspects of governmental and public affairs, including legislative and executive agency advocacy in Washington, DC, Florida, Boston, Tel Aviv…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2010, Thorn Run Partners is a leading Washington, DC-based government affairs firm whose members are Capitol Hill veterans with over a century’s experience in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bose Public Affairs Group successfully advocates for our clients’ legislative, regulatory, procurement, political and communication interests with offices in Indianapolis and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Capitol Counsel, LLC is a full service government relations firm providing political analysis, strategic advice and advocacy services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CALIFORNIA STRATEGIES, LLC is a full-service public affairs consulting firm dedicated to successfully navigating clients through the myriad pathways of California's political…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Keystone Partnership is an independently and locally owned recruiting and staffing company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are innovators and thought leaders who believe in developing robust integrated solutions for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Beekeeper Group we believe in empowering people to advocate for impact by connecting them with stakeholders that are ready to take action so that our clients can achieve their…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Smart strategy begins with being well informed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CGCN Group is an integrated advocacy and strategic communications firm that specializes in helping Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and trade associations navigate complex…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: public affairs recruitment agencies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names public affairs recruitment agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of public affairs recruitment agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name public affairs recruitment agencies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Public affairs recruitment agencies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,067 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among public affairs recruitment agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “public affairs recruitment agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names public affairs recruitment agencies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among public affairs recruitment agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,744 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 29, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names public affairs recruitment agencies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many public affairs recruitment agencies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,067 public affairs recruitment agencies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Mercury Public Affairs, LLC, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most public affairs recruitment agencies?
Washington leads with 179 headquartered companies, followed by New York (48) and Sacramento (41).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,744 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,067 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 29, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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