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Professional staffing in the U.S. - statistics & facts

The professional staffing industry in the United States remains a valuable asset to the country's economy and workforce in both financial value and labor-related resourcefulness. The global picture from 2020 displayed an industry revenue that amounted to approximately 420 billion U.S. dollars and was projected to reach about 650 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Temporary staffing is a service segment of the staffing industry providing temporary help and related staffing services to businesses. In 2020, annual temporary and contract staffing employment in the United States amounted to around an extra 14 million joining the national workforce, with the staffing and recruiting industry sales for that year standing at roughly 140 billion U.S. dollars. The industry was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic but is predicted to bounce back in the near future.

A valuable market

Professional staffing includes those employed in IT, legal, sales and marketing, engineering, accounting and finance, and managerial functions, amongst several other roles and positions. Robert Half International is currently the world’s leading professional staffing company in terms of market capitalization and generated a net service revenue of around 6.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. The size of the temporary staffing market was predicted to reach approximately 122 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, with place and search recruiting accounting for 14.5 billion U.S. dollars of revenue in the same year.

Major players and major challenges

In 2021, ASGN Incorporated had a cost of services that amounted to almost 2.9 billion U.S. dollars. In the same year, Kforce generated a net income of roughly 75 million U.S. dollars. Some of the main priorities for staffing firms in recruiting for professional roles worldwide include candidate acquisition and digital transformation. In 2021, IT staffing alone experienced a total of 56 merger and acquisition deals, the highest in the staffing industry for that year.
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Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 6, 2022

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U.S. staffing sales
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