Resources
Resource guides go deeper than any one engine, covering the economic framework behind a decision, common mistakes, and when to use which engine. We publish them as the engines they support mature, not as a fixed schedule, so a guide only goes live once there's enough built underneath it to make it genuinely useful rather than a thin restatement of a calculator.
- Staffing Markup vs Margin
Why markup and margin describe the same price two different ways, and why confusing them overstates profitability.
- What Goes Into Staffing Labor Burden?
Every component of what a worker actually costs beyond pay rate, and where each figure comes from.
- How Staffing Bill Rates Work
The full mechanics of staffing bill rate pricing, tied together end to end.
- Staffing Gross Margin Benchmarks by Segment
Why margin varies structurally by segment, and where to find real dated benchmark data rather than a guess.
- How VMS and MSP Fees Affect Staffing Margin
Where a vendor-management or managed-service-provider fee actually cuts into margin, and how to price for it.
- Staffing Agency DSO Explained
Why DSO drives cash risk in staffing more than almost any other business, and what improving it is worth.
- Why Staffing Agencies Need So Much Working Capital
Working capital in staffing is a structural requirement, not a buffer. What drives the number and how to size it.
- How Much Cash Does a New Staffing Contract Require?
A new contract's cash requirement is a narrower, sharper question than general working capital planning.
- Factoring vs Line of Credit for Staffing Agencies
Two different ways to fund the payroll-to-collection gap, what each costs, and when the pricier one is still right.
- How Factoring Changes Staffing Agency Profitability
Factoring's fee is a real direct cost against a specific account, not a financing-line abstraction.
- Staffing Recruiter Economics
What a recruiter needs to produce, when to hire the next one, and how ramp payback and commission fit together.
- Fill Rate, Time to Fill, and the Staffing Funnel
What a fill-rate or time-to-fill improvement is actually worth, and where a funnel is really bottlenecked.
- Redeployment Economics
What a redeployment-rate improvement is worth, and how it compares to extending a contract in place.
- How to Measure Staffing Client Profitability
Client profitability is more than billings minus worker cost: servicing, payment terms, and credit risk belong in it.
- Client Concentration Risk for Staffing Agencies
How dependent you are on your largest clients affects credit exposure and how a buyer would value your agency.
- How to Evaluate a New Staffing Contract
A new contract touches margin, cash, concentration, and account economics at once. The full decision chain.
- Temp, Temp-to-Hire, and Direct-Hire Economics
Three placement models with genuinely different economics, and why comparing them takes more than gross margin.
- How Staffing Agencies Scale Profitably
Growth isn't automatically profitable growth. The full chain from break-even to what the agency is worth.