What's your real margin
on every placement?
Bill rate minus pay rate isn't your margin — employer burden eats into it before overhead does. Enter your numbers and see the gross margin you actually keep.
Payroll taxes, workers' comp & benefits on the pay rate. ~8% for 1099, ~15–25% for W-2.
Healthy staffing gross margin usually runs 20–30%. Below ~18%, overhead — recruiters, software, G&A — starts eating the placement. This is gross margin: your net is lower once overhead comes out. Burden also swings it hard, so a W-2 placement at the same spread keeps far less than a 1099 one.
See this margin on every placement — automatically.
TempButton AI tracks bill vs pay vs burden across every contract and flags the thin ones before they cost you — onboarding to invoice, on one platform.
Estimates only. Employer burden varies by classification (1099 vs W-2), state workers' comp, and benefits; this is a simplified gross-margin model and excludes agency overhead. Use it to compare placements, not as accounting.