Does this decision make your staffing business better?
StaffingLedger is a set of decision engines built specifically for owners and operators of U.S. staffing and recruiting agencies, not a generic small-business calculator site. Every engine shows the full math, not just a number: what you're deciding, what it means, and the levers that actually move it.
Start with the decision you're facing
Price a contract
What do I need to bill to hit my target margin, once burden and program fees are counted?
Check if an assignment is actually profitable
Full economic contribution once billable vs. paid hours, fees, and funding cost are counted.
Respond to a client rate-cut request
See exactly how much more volume a discount actually requires to break even.
Browse every engine
Pricing, cash flow, recruiter economics, client economics, placement models, and agency growth.
Why not just use a generic calculator?
Staffing economics are not generic small-business economics. You're paid after the client pays, but you run payroll every week regardless, which means growth itself can create a cash problem even when a contract is profitable on paper. Burden, VMS/MSP fees, and funding costs stack in ways a plain markup calculator hides. StaffingLedger's engines are built around that reality: transparent formulas, staffing-specific assumptions, and a next-decision path so one answer leads to the next question you actually have.
60 decision engines, covering the full agency
View the full engine library →- Staffing Bill Rate Engine
- Markup vs Margin Converter
- Fully Burdened Worker Cost
- Minimum Viable Bill Rate
- Assignment Profitability
- VMS/MSP Fee Impact
- Funding Fee Margin Impact
- Pay Raise Pass-Through
- Client Rate-Cut Impact
- Volume Discount Break-Even
- Overtime Assignment Economics
- Blended Workforce Margin
- Staffing DSO
- Payroll Float / Working Capital
- New Contract Cash Requirement
- DSO Improvement Cash Release
- Factoring Cost
- Factoring vs Line of Credit
- Graduate From Factoring
- Client Payment-Term Cost
- Payroll Reserve / Runway
- Seasonal / Surge Cash Requirement
- Recruiter Break-Even
- Gross Profit per Recruiter
- Recruiter Capacity
- Next Recruiter Hire Trigger
- Recruiter Ramp Payback
- Placements Needed to Cover Recruiter
- Fill Rate Financial Impact
- Time-to-Fill Financial Impact
- Recruiting Funnel Conversion
- Job Order / Req Expected Value
- Redeployment Financial Impact
- Recruiter Commission Plan Economics
- Staffing Client Profitability
- Client Concentration Risk
- New Client Contract Go / No-Go
- Minimum Profitable Account Size
- Client Retention Financial Impact
- Client Repricing / Margin Recovery
- Account Service-Cost Profitability
- Client Credit / Bad-Debt Exposure
- Account Manager Capacity / Hire Trigger
- Direct Hire Fee Engine
- Direct Hire Placement Profitability
- Temp-to-Hire Conversion Fee
- Conversion Timing / Fee Decay
- Replacement Guarantee Economics
- Contract vs Direct-Hire Mix
- Contract Extension Value
- Agency Break-Even Active Temps
- Gross Profit Required for Target Profit
- OpEx-to-Gross-Profit / SG&A Leverage
- Staffing Sales Hire Break-Even
- Back-Office Hire Break-Even
- Branch Break-Even
- New Branch Payback
- Active Temps Needed for Growth Target
- Staffing Service Mix
- Staffing Agency Valuation and Value Drivers