How much do staffing agencies like staff mark take out of your check?

Usually they hire you and pay you. They then charge the company more and keep the difference as profit.

 

I worked for a staffing agency one time and it was a good deal for me.
The trucking company paid the staffing agency and the staffing agency paid me.
It was hourly work and I made more per hour than the trucking company drivers.
I made like $2.00 more per hour and the staffing agency told me not to discuss pay with them.
It was W-2 also.

 

Nothing. I worked for one for a year. Obviously, taxes and medical benefits, but nothing more.

The company they send you to pays for that fee.

 

Be careful now because the trend is for them to pay you on a 1099 rather than W-2.

In the late nineties I actually worked for Staffmark and they were pretty good they paid you on a W2 at that time.

But right now the trend in driver leasing is to pay you on a 1099 and it cost you a lot more money in taxes if you do that. And no workman's comp or any of that.

It should be illegal that they do that.

 

I was W-2 for Driving Ambition about 6 years ago.

 

That's good to hear.

Near me there was commercial drivers Leasing, TransForce, and Fundamental Labor Strategies I think was the name of that crazy place in New Jersey.

They all paid on a 1099 and there were others around this area doing the same.

 

Transforce bought out Driving Ambition a year or so ago. We get some of our temps from there. The last one that came through was W-2, I believe.

But I agree, 1099, unless freelancing or doing a per project basis, should be illegal.

 

At the 2 companies my employer used the rented drivers were paid by the temp service $1-2 less per hour than employee drivers. I presume my employer paid the temp service what the employer paid employee drivers. It varies by situation,

 

Generally the temp drivers make more unless it's a shop somewhere that the drivers really get paid a lot of money.

I'm not sure what they pay nowadays but I'm sure it's over $20 an hour and a lot of them are overtime after 8 hours. But they are charging the customer like 35 or 45 an hour.

Yes they are paying that much money when they need a driver.