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Professional Services · Margin on Placement

The Staffing Agency

A staffing agency earns the spread between what a client is billed and what the placed worker is paid. You are not selling your own hours; you are building a recruiting engine, a candidate pipeline, and a book of clients whose open requisitions you can fill faster than anyone else. Get the bill/pay spread and the fill rate right and it is one of the most scalable cash-flow services in America.

$1M-$10M typical revenueMargin on the bill/pay spreadFill rate is the whole gameTemp-to-perm fees are the upside
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The Snapshot

Is this worth your attention?

$1M-$10M
Typical annual revenue
2-10 recruiter desks
4-8%
Net profit margin
on total billings; the spread is the real margin
$30k-$150k
Cost to start
desk, software, payroll-funding working capital
1-3 yrs
Typical payback
faster with a portable book of clients
Medium-High
Day-to-day difficulty
sales, recruiting & payroll intensive
Medium
Absentee potential
once recruiters run their own desks

A fit if you…

  • Can sell into clients and win open requisitions
  • Can recruit, screen, and place candidates fast
  • Want margin on the spread rather than your own hours
  • Can fund worker payroll before the client pays you
  • Run tight on fill rate, time-to-fill, and margin discipline

Probably not if you…

  • Want a hands-off business from day one
  • Dislike sales, recruiting, and chasing requisitions
  • Can not float payroll on a gap between pay and collection
  • Expect fat margins without filling reqs fast
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Step Inside the Layout

A live look at one tool inside

This is the actual 3D floor from the full model - drag to explore it. Inside, you configure the space yourself and watch the economics move with every choice.

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This is just the surface

The full model is the complete, interactive deep-dive, and every business here is built to the same standard: a live economics simulator you tune to your own numbers, an interactive 3D walkthrough, a location scorecard, an owner-fit assessment, buy-versus-build guidance, and the full breakdown of how it makes money and what quietly kills margin.