A temp branch runs on order fill. At 6:30am a warehouse client calls in twelve pickers for second shift, the branch checks who is qualified, available and within driving distance, texts out the assignment, confirms who accepted, and chases the two no-shows at 2pm. Through the week it handles timesheets, client complaints, a worker who wants more hours, and the account manager's rate conversation with the plant's HR lead. Light industrial, clerical and healthcare desks all run some version of that loop.
The result is high-volume, operational data: thousands of short decisions about matching people to shifts, each with an outcome the next morning. Census counts 6,174 temp help firms with 30+ employees, because temps on assignment count as employees. That headcount is worth raising with buyers, since their size rules were written for companies whose staff all work internally.
This page is for temporary, contract and light industrial staffing agencies with ten or more internal staff. It describes a week of branch data, which buyers fit, how worker records and pay data are separated from the process records the agency wrote, and the questions to put to any buyer.
Worth
What a staffing agency's data may be worth
Set for a typical staffing agency, 30 staff and 10 years of records. Move the sliders to match yours. Our estimate, not an offer.
Buyers
Which buyers want this data
Buyers whose own published rules fit temporary and contract staffing agencies. We can introduce you to the ones we work with.
Featured partners
micro1
Names recruiting and BPO firms, and asks for repeated, well defined workflows; filling a shift order is one done hundreds of times a week.6,11
- $100K to $2M+, micro1 says8
Watch out for: Says it removes personal details only "when relevant", so ask exactly how.12
Polyshares
Buys CRM, tickets, call recordings and ERP exports, which covers the front office, client service and billing systems.13
- $100K to $2M+, Polyshares says9
- None, Polyshares says14
- An offer in 1 to 2 weeks, then paid in 30 to 60 days15
Watch out for: Exclusive by default, and every deal it lists is exclusive with no end date.16,17
Everyone else we reviewed
By score, with full reviews. We have no referral agreement with these companies, so we do not link out to them.
Who wants this
Do buyers want temporary and contract staffing agencies?
No buyer publishes prices by industry, but their own intake forms show which industries they rate higher.
- Troveo puts something else (staffing is not listed) in its third of four demand tiers: "Standard buyer demand for your industry."22
- Polyshares takes staffing and recruiting, without marking it premium.23
- VMS, a broker, gives staffing or bpo standard weight when it estimates value.24
Which buyers take a staffing agency your size
Shown for 30 staff, a typical staffing agency. Ask whether contractors and part-time staff count.
micro1
Polyshares
No headcount rule; the length and texture of the record matter more26
Mode
20+ full-time US office staff (accounting firms 10+, law firms 6+)27
Pewter
20+ staff and 3+ years; by industry, from 10+ (healthcare) to 50+ (manufacturing, finance)28,29,30
Grepped
No headcount minimum stated31
Ventra
30+ US employees and 3+ years of records32
Mercor
None stated33
Troveo
No minimum stated; its estimator starts at 2034
Nyne
20+ US W-2 employees and 3+ years5
Endless
Roughly 30+ employees35
Supersoniq
50+ employees and 5+ years36
What buyers value
What in a staffing agency's records buyers value
What buyers look for in your records, and what to talk through with your buyer before anything leaves your systems.
| Data | Where it lives | Why a buyer values it | Raise with the buyer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job orders and fill records | Staffing ATS and front office system | Each order, who was offered it, who accepted and who showed up: matching under time pressure. | Worker names, phone numbers and home locations. |
| Shift texts and confirmations | Mass texting tools, ATS messaging | Short, real messages that show how assignments are offered and confirmed at scale. | Whether texts include personal detail about workers. |
| Client service tickets and complaints | Email, CRM cases | A client's complaint about a worker or a missed fill, and how the branch resolved it. | Disciplinary details about named workers. |
| Timesheets and billing exceptions | Time capture, payroll and billing system | Disputed hours, overtime approvals and rate corrections, with the resolution. | Pay rates, Social Security numbers and other payroll identifiers. |
| Branch SOPs and safety orientation material | Shared drive, LMS | How the agency onboards, places and supports workers, free of any individual's data. | Nothing specific |
A week of records
A week of data at a staffing agency
- Monday: 180 shift orders across four clients, each filled, short-filled or declined with a reason.
- Tuesday: a client escalation about late arrivals, answered with a corrective plan in writing.
- Wednesday: a VMS requisition for a contract clerk answered with three submittals within the deadline.
- Thursday: timesheet exceptions from the weekend shift resolved with supervisors by email.
- Friday: a rate review with a manufacturing client, written up after the call.
Process
How it works with each buyer
In each buyer's own words. Where a buyer publishes nothing, we say so.
micro1
- Internal docs, SOPs and playbooks, knowledge bases, project management workflows, internal comms, templates, CRM and workflow metadata, task histories37
- 30 to 200 employees25
- $100K-$2M+ per data package; over $1M for unique data8
- PII removed "when relevant"12
- The company keeps ownership of its data and reviews samples before release38
- Not published
Polyshares
Selling or closing
Selling or closing your staffing agency? License its data first
When a temp agency sells a branch or its client book, the fill history and branch SOPs are a different set of records from either. If a sale or branch closure is coming, ask each licensing company whether worker and payroll data can be excluded completely while order, fill and client service records are licensed, and how a later sale of the agency would treat the license.3,4
FAQ
Temporary staffing agencies: questions, answered
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.
Before you sign
Questions to talk through with your buyer
Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.
Questions for this kind of business
- How are worker names, Social Security numbers, pay rates and addresses removed?
- Which client and MSP agreements restrict sharing order or timesheet data?
- How are employee data and any union contracts at client sites handled?
- How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
- How are employee data, union contracts and NLRA questions handled?
- Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?
Questions for any buyer
- Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
- Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
- Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
- How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
- What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
- Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
- Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?