RE: SUMMARY: another newbie, etc....(longish)

[Kim Wallace <KWallace -at- stewart -dot- com>]

Per a friend who was a recruiter, a "fair" cut for an agency ranged from 12%
(the "friends" rate of 7.5% for SS and 4.5% to pay for doing the
withholding) to 20%. Anything higher than and he cautioned me to be
suspicious of the agency.


> On this topic, Christine Anameier noted: "... you mentioned a recruiter.
> I wonder what kind of cut they're
> taking on this deal. It's conceivable that the company may be offering a
> more reasonable amount but the recruiter is taking a big chunk of it.)"
>
> Just a little factoid for the newbies: The last time I hired a
> temp/contractor through an agency (six months ago), I had to pay a
> little over $30/hr and the TW received just under $17/hr. The agency was
> taking a 45% slice for themselves.

Was the agency paying the temp's taxes (witholding, SS, state, etc.)?  If
so,
thenn the agency wasn't really getting 45%.  Some agencies give value back
to temps/contractors in some way; others do nothing more than act as
employer of
record to run the money through.

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