Staffing & Recruitment Agency Economics: Bill vs Pay Rates, Employer Cost Loads, Placement Fees, Fill Rates & Recruiter Productivity
Run a temp and permanent placement agency by the numbers: pay rate, fictional employer cost load, bill rate and markup, placement fees and guarantees, fill rates and what each recruiter desk earns, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
A staffing agency economics course that runs one fictional temp and permanent staffing agency, Pellham Staffing, in a spreadsheet, for staffing owners and branch managers, recruiters, finance staff and business students. You add the employer burden to each temp's pay rate and mark it up to a bill rate, convert markups into margins and back and price a bill rate from a target margin, calculate gross profit per hour and per assignment, work out permanent placement fees and the refund on the guarantee scale, measure each recruiter's funnel from submittals to placements, track fill rate and time to fill in a combo chart, rank clients by gross margin, and find the peak funding need of paying temps weekly while clients pay after 45 days. Fictional agency, illustrative rates. Employment and tax rules vary by country and the burden rates are placeholders, not legal or tax advice.
Lessons
- Pay Rate to Bill Rate: Employer Cost Loads, Markup on Pay & Gross Margin per Hour Pro
- Temp Hours & Gross Profit: Timesheets by Client, Billed vs Pay Cost & Profit per Worker Pro
- Overtime & Premiums: Regular vs Overtime Hours, Premium Pay, Billed Premiums & the Margin Squeeze Pro
- Permanent Placements: Placement Fees, Guarantee Periods, Refund Scales & Net Fees Pro
- Fill Rate & Time to Fill: Orders vs Placements, Working Days to Fill & Gross Profit Missed Pro
- Recruiter Desks: Submission Funnels, Conversion Rates, Desk Gross Profit & Commission Tiers Pro
- Cash & Funding: Weekly Payroll vs Client Terms, Due Dates, the Working-Capital Gap & Factoring Fees Pro
- Agency Dashboard: Gross Profit by Client & Sector, Growth, Ranking, Temp vs Perm Mix & a Chart Pro