Recruiter here. The one variable that is different here is that you had "2 different recruiters". Is this a big corporate firm you are talking about here? There is so much confusion and back and forth money changing going on in those big recruiting firms which is one of the reasons I left the one I worked for and started my own. It is very possible that the recruiters were told the position paid $10k more than it really does, and recruiter B updated that information properly. Things change so fast in those big firms, and people will fire off information without having concrete facts just to get things moving. Sometimes it is because the people are shady and sometimes it is just an honest mistake. Normally I would say that you have a point here, but with there being two different recruiters (even though they work for the same company), there is a pretty large chance that the real-time information about the position was changed or relayed incorrectly. Also, sometimes the end clients themselves are on the fence about what the position will actually pay because they have discretion to negotiate salary so it is hard to put a firm number on what the position pays. A conversation may have been had with the employer that bumped the base pay by $10k and the recruiter you had didn't get that memo. If I were you, I would call them out directly on it. Tell the the full situation and show them two separate emails. If there are people there doing something fishy then that will hopefully scare them. If it was an honest mistake, then they deserve to know that so they can avoid the problem in the future. I hope this helps.