KORE1 temp staffing for Long Beach employers, as of November 2026
Temporary Staffing Agency in Long Beach, CA Accounting, admin, HR and help desk temps on KORE1’s W2
Office temps for Long Beach finance, HR and service desk teams, priced from Los Angeles metro rate cells.
KORE1 is a temp agency in Long Beach. In the Los Angeles metro, which includes Long Beach, a mid-level temp accountant bills $67 to $86 an hour, median $75, and an L2 help desk temp bills $53 to $66.
Last updated: November 8, 2026
- This page
- Office temps for Long Beach employers. Accountants, AP and AR clerks, admin staff, HR generalists and help desk technicians, employed by KORE1 for the length of the assignment.
- Not this page
- Dock, terminal and warehouse crews. For permanent hires and everything else we do in the city, see Long Beach staffing beyond temps.
Those rates are Los Angeles metro cells from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4. Long Beach doesn’t get a cell of its own. It sits inside the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro, so the federal wage data that prices a downtown LA accountant prices one on Ocean Boulevard too.
At the median, a temp accountant for three months comes to about $38,900. That’s the benchmark. The temp is a KORE1 W2 employee. Paid every Friday. You direct the work. If you’re new to the model, start with how KORE1 temporary staffing works. If you already know it, the numbers are next.
What Does a Long Beach Temp Cost per Hour?
Three cells, each one a Los Angeles metro figure, as of October 16, 2026. Every row is modeled. None is observed.
| Temp seat | Index cell | Bill range | Median | 3 months | 6 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temp accountantLos Angeles metro | Accountant, mid‑level | $67 to $86 | $75 | $38,900 | $77,800 |
| Help desk tempLos Angeles metro | Help desk technician, L2 | $53 to $66 | $58 | $30,400 | $60,800 |
| HR generalist tempLos Angeles metro | HR generalist, mid‑level | $56 to $72 | $62 | $32,400 | $64,900 |
Price a Long Beach temp
Send the role, the level, the start date, how many weeks of coverage you need and whether the seat is on-site or hybrid. We’ll price that one seat.
- Need a seat that isn’t in the table? Every role we price in the Los Angeles metro is in the full Los Angeles metro table.
- AP and AR temps have their own numbers, a KORE1-observed Southern California cell, on AP and AR temp bill rates.
- Admin temps get no figure here. The index publishes no admin cell, so we price those seats one at a time.
- Each of the three cells has a national guide behind it, with every metro side by side. See contract accountant bill rates, help desk contractor bill rates and HR and recruiter contract rates.
Which Long Beach Employers Open Temp Seats?
Four kinds, mostly. They share one thing. Their offices get busy on a schedule.
Port and logistics
The Port of Long Beach sits at the center of the city’s trade economy, and the terminal operators, forwarders and logistics companies around it run large finance back offices. Freight billing falls behind. Carrier and vendor invoices pile up after a system change, and that’s a temp accountant’s week.
Launch and aerospace
Rocket Lab keeps its headquarters on McGowen Street near the airport, and when a launch or aerospace manufacturer ramps up a build, the cost accounting and program admin seats arrive with it and last about as long as the ramp does. Then they end.
Managed care
Molina Healthcare is headquartered downtown on Oceangate. A health plan hires in waves and closes its books every month, so HR onboarding help and close support both show up with an end date attached. Both are predictable.
Hospital and campus
MemorialCare runs Long Beach Medical Center on Atlantic Avenue, and Cal State Long Beach sits on Bellflower Boulevard. Help desks at both get swamped at term start and during system cutovers. Nobody hires permanent staff for a two-week spike.
We name these employers to describe the market. None of them is presented here as a KORE1 client.
Office Professionals, Not Dock or Warehouse Crews
Search for a temp agency in a port city and a lot of what comes back is warehouse and dock labor. This page doesn’t staff it.
The seats here sit in finance offices, HR teams and service desks. Accountants. AP and AR clerks. Admin staff, HR generalists and help desk technicians, and the employers behind them run from a forwarder’s billing floor near the harbor to a hospital IT group up Atlantic Avenue, which is the same work a downtown LA office needs, a shorter drive away.
The BLS Los Angeles area economic summary counted 1,047,900 jobs in trade, transportation and utilities across the metro in September 2026, and 300,400 in financial activities. Big numbers. Behind every one of those freight jobs is somebody reconciling the invoice.
The same professional temp desk runs in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Phoenix, Dallas, Austin and Houston. On the Gulf Coast it covers New Orleans back-office temps too. In the Midwest it covers Twin Cities back-office temps as well.
Which California Rules Ride on a Long Beach Temp Assignment?
Three of them come up on almost every Long Beach call. None is exotic. Each changes who does what.
- Paid sick leave
- California requires at least 40 hours or five days of paid sick leave a year, accrued at one hour for every 30 hours worked, per the Labor Commissioner’s paid sick leave FAQ. On a KORE1 assignment, KORE1 provides it as the W2 employer.
- Labor Code 2810.3
- A client employer shares liability with a labor contractor for unpaid wages and missing workers’ comp on workers supplied for its usual course of business, under Labor Code section 2810.3. It doesn’t reach a business with fewer than 25 workers in all, or with five or fewer supplied workers at any given time.
- Labor Code 432.3
- An employer with 15 or more employees puts the pay scale in any job posting. A third party that posts for it has to include the pay scale too, as the Labor Commissioner’s Equal Pay Act FAQ explains.
The middle one is the reason to ask any agency a plain question before you sign, because an agency that can’t say clearly who runs wages and who carries the workers’ comp is quietly handing part of that risk back to you. Ask in writing. Keep the answer.
“The absolute myriad of insurance coverages that we carry, the five days of sick pay… because it’s a California law.”
What Sits Inside a California Temp Bill Rate?
Every container door in the harbor is painted with three weights. The cargo, the box, and the two together. A temp bill rate breaks down the same way.
- Net pay rate
- $100.00
- Tare burden at 24%
- + $24.00
- Loaded cost of the hour
- $124.00
- Gross bill rate
- $150 to $160
“$100 an hour. There’s a burden of 24% generally in California… now with the burden you have $124.”
Read it from the top. The net is what the temp earns. The tare is the weight of the box itself, which is the 24% employer burden of payroll taxes, workers’ comp, required insurance and California sick leave, and it ships whether you think about it or not.
Loaded, that hour costs $124 before anyone has recruited a person or answered a phone, and a bill rate somewhere around $150 to $160 covers the loaded cost plus recruiting, account management and margin. Here’s the catch. Agencies that quote you a single markup number often leave the burden out of it, which weighs the cargo and forgets the box, so compare loaded cost and never the percentage.
Who Employs a Long Beach Temp, and When Can You Hire Them?
KORE1 does. Start to finish. The temp is our W2 employee for the whole assignment.
Friday pay, payroll taxes, workers’ comp, liability insurance and California sick leave all sit with us. Your manager sets the hours and directs the work, so day to day the temp works like anyone else on your team.
Then there’s the exit. Most buyers want it. Once the temp passes 1,040 hours you can bring them onto your own staff with no conversion fee, and 207 of KORE1’s 552 contract-to-hire placements ended in exactly that, a conversion rate of 37.5%. Our temp-to-hire terms spell out how to set one up.
Two limits, said plainly. A temp carries no replacement guarantee. A permanent search is a different product, billed at 20% of first-year base salary, and direct hire is where the 60-day replacement guarantee lives.
How Fast Can a Long Beach Temp Start?
Quickly. Across 1,997 KORE1 placements, the median time from offer to start was 3 days. A median, not a promise.
That figure covers every role we place, not Long Beach alone, and 79% of the placement records behind it are California rows. We don’t claim a Long Beach office or a Long Beach placement count. What we do claim is a California bench that already works inside these rules, and a Friday payroll that doesn’t care which side of the 710 the office sits on.
$75
median hourly bill rate, mid-level temp accountant, Los Angeles metro, modeled
$58
median hourly bill rate, L2 help desk temp, Los Angeles metro, modeled
3 days
median from offer to start across KORE1 placements (n=1,997)
37.5%
of KORE1 contract-to-hire placements converted (207 of 552)
Rates from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4, effective October 16, 2026. Placement figures from KORE1 records. Track record, not a commitment.
Office Seats We Fill in Long Beach
Four desks, one recruiting team, the same W2 terms on every seat.
Finance
Accountants and AP or AR clerks
Freight billing backlogs, month-end close, reconciliations and vendor invoice clean-up.
AP and AR specialist staffingOffice
Admin and program support
Front office, scheduling and program admin through a build ramp or a leave.
Temporary staffing agencyPeople
HR generalists
Onboarding waves, benefits enrollment season and cover for an HR partner on leave.
Human resources staffingService desk
Help desk technicians
Term-start surges, device refreshes and the weeks around a system cutover.
Help desk staffing
Common Questions
Are Long Beach temp rates the same as Los Angeles rates?
In the KORE1 Contract Rate Index they are, because Long Beach sits inside the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro. As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level accountant on a W2 contract in Los Angeles typically bills $67 to $86 an hour, median $75. A quote for your seat replaces the cell.
Who provides California paid sick leave to a Long Beach temp?
KORE1 does, as the temp’s W2 employer. California requires at least 40 hours or five days of paid sick leave a year, accrued at one hour for every 30 hours worked, and a temp earns it like anyone else on a payroll.
Does KORE1 supply dock or warehouse workers for the port?
Not through this page. It covers office seats only, meaning accountants, AP and AR clerks, admin staff, HR generalists and help desk technicians, whether the employer is a forwarder near the harbor or a hospital across town.
Can we hire our Long Beach temp after the assignment?
Yes. After 1,040 hours on assignment you can bring the temp onto your own staff with no conversion fee. Across KORE1’s records, 207 of 552 contract-to-hire placements ended in a conversion, so it’s worth saying at the start if you might want to.
Talk to KORE1 About a Long Beach Backlog
A freight billing backlog, a month-end close or an onboarding wave. Send us five things and a recruiter comes back with a price and a start date.
- RoleAccountant, AP or AR clerk, admin, HR generalist or help desk.
- LevelJunior, mid-level or senior, in your words.
- Start dateWhen the first day needs to be.
- Weeks of coverageYour best guess is fine. Extensions are common.
- On-site or hybridAnd which Long Beach address the seat is at.
Want a number first? Get a bill rate quote, or call 949-706-6990.
