Largest staffing firms in the U.S. by revenue 2022

In terms of revenue, Adecco was the clear leader in the U.S. staffing market. The company generated roughly 24.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, five billion U.S. dollars more than their closest competitor in Manpower.

The staffing industry

The staffing industry can be divided into two main categories – the provision of short-term staff to organizations and assisting organizations to source and recruit new permanent staff members. On average, short term workers are hired for around ten weeks, but this figure hides some important distinctions between contract and temporary staff. Contract workers are hired for a specific length of time (e.g. three or six months) with consistent conditions over this period, whereas temporary staff are generally recruited for only a few days or weeks and are paid by hour depending on the amount of work that is required each day.

Size of the industry

In 2022, the market size of the staffing industry in the United States was 219 billion U.S. dollars. This made the United Staes the largest single market for temporary staffing in the world. Despite the size of the market, the rate of temporary staff relative to permanent workers in the United States is much lower than in many other developed economies – less than half the rate of the United Kingdom. When the distribution of staffing and recruiting industry sales in the United States are broken down by category, 85 percent of sales came from temporary and contract workers.