Comprehensive hiring guides, talent acquisition strategies, and workforce planning resources for employers — covering everything from sourcing and screening to offer negotiation and onboarding across IT, engineering, and finance roles.
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract IT project manager or scrum master bills $72 to $93 an hour nationally, median $81, or about $42,200 for three months. Senior program managers bill $93 to $114, median $106. KORE1’s own placements, mostly in Southern California, bill $105 to $124 … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract data analyst or BI developer bills $82 to $111 an hour nationally, median $95, or about $49,600 for three months (KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4, modeled). KORE1’s own placements for the role billed $69 to $116, median $115, across … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Staff augmentation is priced three ways: an all-in hourly bill rate, cost-plus (pay plus burden plus a disclosed markup), or a flat monthly rate per seat. The trap is a quoted markup that leaves out the 24% employer burden. A mid-level software engineer bills $96 to $122 … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract accountant bills $59 to $75 an hour nationally, median $65, and a senior accountant bills $77 to $94, median $87, or about $45,300 for a three-month contract. Those two lines come from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4, and they’re … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Temporary help services lost 10,900 jobs in September 2026, the second drop in three months, while total payrolls rose just 29,000 and unemployment reached 4.2% (BLS, preliminary). Temp help is still about 15,000 jobs above where it was a year earlier. Our view at KORE1 is that temp dips … Read more
By Dave Manchester, Scientific Recruiting, KORE1 Who does a recruiter call first when a great QC chemist comes on the market? Honestly, the hiring manager who’s easiest to work with. A strong recruiter hiring manager relationship runs on a real intake call, feedback inside two business days, honest answers about the job, and candidates treated … Read more
Entertainment marketing is the work of selling films, series, music, and live events to audiences, and selling those audiences to brands. Studios and streamers now run more of that second job themselves, so they’re hiring agency-trained people, from brand partnerships leads and branded content producers to creative directors and account leaders who know how to … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 A product designer job description should name the product the hire will own, the metric they share with a product manager, the platforms they ship on, and a base range, about $100,000 to $175,000 for mid to senior in 2026. Everything else on the page is supporting detail. … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 A sales engineer job description should state how many account executives the seat supports, the typical deal size and cycle, who owns the demos and proofs of concept, how variable pay is earned, and who the role reports to. Most postings stop at “partner with sales.” Good sales engineers … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 An SAP S/4HANA consultant job description should name the S/4HANA objects the seat will own, such as Business Partner, Material Ledger, credit management, or rebate settlement, say how your system got to S/4HANA, and print a closed base range. For mid-level through senior functional consultants in 2026, that range … Read more
