KORE1 in the Twin Cities, priced November 2026
Temporary Staffing Agency in Minneapolis, MN Accounting, admin and IT temps, temp-to-hire and local bill rates
Accounting, AP and finance temps for Twin Cities teams, with Minnesota sick time and Paid Leave explained before you sign.
KORE1 is a temp agency in Minneapolis. In the Twin Cities metro, a mid-level temp accountant bills $63 to $78 an hour, median $68, about $35,600 for three months. KORE1 carries Minnesota sick time and its Paid Leave share.
Last updated: November 10, 2026
- Covered here
- Back-office temps for Twin Cities employers. Accountants, AP and AR clerks, finance analysts, HR coordinators, admin and service desk, hired by KORE1 and kept on our payroll until the assignment ends.
- Covered elsewhere
- KORE1 sends no warehouse or light-industrial crews to the Twin Cities. Permanent hires and the rest of our city work live on the Minneapolis staffing agency page.
The rates below come from the 2026-Q4 edition of KORE1’s Contract Rate Index, effective October 16, 2026, and they cover the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, called the Twin Cities metro on this page. They’re modeled from BLS wage data plus an employer load rather than averaged from our own placements. A quote prices your seat.
Three months of a mid-level temp accountant at the median runs about $35,600. A benchmark, nothing more. KORE1 carries the temp on its W2. Friday paychecks. Your manager runs the day. New to the model? Start with KORE1 temporary staffing, then come back for the Minnesota rules.
What Do Accounting, AP and Finance Temps Bill in Minneapolis-St. Paul?
Every row below is the Twin Cities metro, as of October 16, 2026. All three are modeled. A quote prices your seat against the live market.
| Temp seat | Index cell | Bill range | Median | 3 months | 6 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temp accountantTwin Cities metro | Accountant, junior | $52 to $62 | $57 | $29,600 | $59,100 |
| Temp accountantTwin Cities metro | Accountant, mid‑level | $63 to $78 | $68 | $35,600 | $71,100 |
| Financial analyst tempTwin Cities metro | Financial analyst, mid‑level | $72 to $92 | $82 | $42,600 | $85,300 |
Get a Twin Cities temp quote
Tell us the role, the level, the start date and whether the desk sits inside Minneapolis city limits, because the city’s sick time ordinance follows the address. We’ll price that one seat.
- AP and AR seats have a page of their own, AP and AR temp rates, because the index prices them from KORE1 placements rather than from a metro wage table.
- There’s no admin row because the index has no admin cell. Admin and executive assistant temps are placed all the time. We price each one separately.
- IT gets one line here. An L2 help desk temp in the Twin Cities bills $47 to $56 an hour, median $50. Every other IT role and the full table stay on Twin Cities IT contractor rates, which owns them.
- Twin Cities temps from KORE1 work in offices (finance, accounting, admin, HR, service desk). KORE1 sends no warehouse or light-industrial crews.
Which Twin Cities Headquarters Create Temp Work?
The BLS Minneapolis area economic summary, updated November 4, 2026, put 2,025,500 people on nonfarm payrolls in September 2026. Education and health services led at 395,700, trade, transportation and utilities followed at 333,100, and professional and business services came next at 287,600, with financial activities adding another 140,500 on top.
Those sectors set the seats.
Retail
A retail headquarters like Target, based in Minneapolis, brings holiday-season AP volume, and then the January reconciliations pull in extra hands, because receipts pile up through November and December and somebody has to match every one of them against a purchase order before the books can close. Clean-up lands in January.
Health insurance
Open enrollment is the pressure point at a health insurer like UnitedHealth Group, because the same few coordinators who are onboarding a hiring wave also have to answer every benefits question in the same month, and that’s usually when HR starts borrowing hands. Briefly.
Banking and financial planning
Ameriprise Financial and U.S. Bank keep a Minneapolis base. Quarter-end is the crunch, with reconciliations stacking up while the close clock runs, and that’s where temp seats open at firms like these. They shut when the books do. The assignments follow the calendar, not the headcount plan.
Food and medical devices
On the food and medical device side, General Mills and Medtronic are the names most people reach for, and temp seats there usually trace back to year-end close or an audit request list, where a lot of the work is tedious by design. Careful beats clever.
These employers are named to sketch the local economy. The page doesn’t claim any of them as a KORE1 client.
Which Minnesota and Minneapolis Rules Apply to a Temp?
Think of three transparent sheets laid over a desk. Two belong to the state. The third belongs to the city, and it only lands if the desk is inside Minneapolis. Address decides.
- Minnesota Earned Sick and Safe Time
- An employee earns one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 48 hours a year, when expected to work at least 80 hours a year for a Minnesota employer, which a three-month assignment clears with room to spare. The state labor department explains it, and Minn. Stat. 181.9446 carries the text.
- Minneapolis Sick and Safe Time ordinance
- In force since July 1, 2017 and enforced by the city’s Labor Standards Enforcement Division. It covers employees who work at least 80 hours a year within Minneapolis, and employers with six or more employees must provide paid time, per the city policy overview.
- Minnesota Paid Leave
- Paid benefits have been available since January 1, 2026, funded by premiums that employer and employee share. An employer pays at least half under Minn. Stat. 268B.14. No premium rate printed here. Check paidleave.mn.gov for the current one.
- Pay range in postings
- Employers with 30 or more Minnesota employees must post a starting salary range and a general description of benefits, under Minn. Stat. 181.173. It’s about your postings. Not a temp’s hours.
| Where the desk sits | Minnesota sick time | Minneapolis ordinance | Paid Leave premiums |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inside Minneapolis city limits | Applies at 80 hours a year | Applies at 80 hours a year within the city | Shared, employer pays at least half |
| Elsewhere in the Twin Cities metro | Applies at 80 hours a year | Not this ordinance | Shared, employer pays at least half |
Do Paid Leave Premiums Push a Twin Cities Bill Rate Up?
Not on top of the load. Here’s the example we use everywhere, with Minnesota in mind.
- Hourly pay rate
- $100
- Load it by 24%
- $124
- Roughly what the bill lands at
- $150 to $160
Three lines, nothing hidden. The gap between $124 and the bill pays for recruiting and margin. Minnesota premiums and sick time sit inside that 24%, and they’re never stacked on top. A markup quoted as a single percentage can hide whether the load was counted at all, which is why we show the pieces.
“First off, it’s not a markup. Secondly, there’s a margin in there. And thirdly, there’s a bunch of other costs that you’re not thinking of.”
Ask any agency what its load counts. Get the answer in writing.
Is It Cheaper to Hire Through a Temp Agency in Minneapolis?
It depends on how long you need the seat. Three months of a mid-level temp accountant runs about $35,600 in the Twin Cities. A permanent hire through KORE1 is billed at 20% of base salary, with a 60-day replacement guarantee.
Set side by side, the two land closer than most buyers expect.
“There’s really no savings in going direct hire versus contract.”
So the temp is bought for speed, and for the option to keep the person. Once a temp passes 1,040 hours, roughly half a year of full-time work, the temp can convert to your staff with no conversion fee.
There’s one limit to know. A temp carries no replacement guarantee.
How Does a W2 Temp Through KORE1 Work for a Twin Cities Team?
KORE1 employs the temp and runs pay every Friday. We carry workers’ comp, liability insurance, sick time and Paid Leave contributions. Your manager approves hours and directs the work, and inside your office the temp is simply part of the team, sitting at the desk you point to and following the schedule you set.
Half of KORE1 placements start within 3 days of the offer. That’s a median across 1,997 starts in every role we place. Not a Twin Cities number. KORE1 has no Twin Cities address to point to, so we won’t claim one, and what we do have is a payroll that runs every Friday wherever the desk sits.
Over a third of KORE1 contract-to-hire placements became direct hires, 207 of 552, or 37.5%. That’s the model behind temp-to-hire in the Twin Cities. Hiring for a permanent seat instead? See accounting and finance staffing in Minneapolis.
KORE1 staffs other Twin Cities desks too, among them ERP consultants in Minneapolis, NetSuite talent in Minneapolis, Minneapolis data staffing and engineering staffing in the Twin Cities. The same office-temp desk runs in other cities as well, including Dallas, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, New Orleans, Los Angeles County, Long Beach and Orange County.
$68
median hourly bill for a mid-level temp accountant in the Twin Cities, modeled
$82
median hourly bill for a mid-level financial analyst temp in the Twin Cities, modeled
3 days
median wait from offer to start across KORE1 placements (n=1,997)
37.5%
of KORE1 contract-to-hire placements became permanent hires (207 of 552)
Twin Cities cells from the 2026-Q4 rate index, effective October 16, 2026. Placement numbers come from KORE1’s own records and describe what happened, not what’s promised.
Which Twin Cities Office Seats Does KORE1 Fill?
Each desk below runs on identical W2 terms, recruited by the same team.
Finance
Accountants and finance analysts
Month-end close, year-end close and the audit request lists that follow.
Accounting contract staffingPayables
AP and AR clerks
Holiday-season invoice volume and the January reconciliations after it.
AP and AR temp bill ratesPeople
HR coordinators
Open enrollment and onboarding waves that outrun a small HR team.
Human resources staffingOffice and IT
Admin and service desk
Reception, scheduling and help desk cover through a leave or an office move.
IT staffing in Minneapolis
Common Questions
Is it cheaper to hire through a temp agency in Minneapolis?
Not by much once the seat runs long, because a permanent hire through KORE1 is billed at 20% of base salary. Three months of a mid-level temp accountant in the Twin Cities runs about $35,600, and the temp is bought for speed and for the option to convert with no fee after 1,040 hours.
Does the Minneapolis sick and safe time ordinance reach a temp working downtown?
Yes, when the temp works at least 80 hours a year within Minneapolis, because the ordinance follows the work location. The city’s Labor Standards Enforcement Division enforces it, and KORE1 carries the time as the W2 employer.
Who handles Minnesota Paid Leave premiums for a KORE1 temp?
KORE1 does, as the W2 employer. Premiums are shared between employer and employee, and under Minn. Stat. 268B.14 the employer pays at least half. In our examples that cost sits inside the 24% load and never gets stacked on top of the bill.
Where are Twin Cities IT contractor rates published?
On KORE1’s Twin Cities IT contractor rates page, which owns the full IT table. This page carries one line, an L2 help desk temp at $47 to $56 an hour, median $50.
Talk to KORE1 About a Minneapolis Close, Open Enrollment or AP Backlog
A year-end close that’s slipping, an enrollment wave or a payables pile. Answer the five prompts below and a recruiter replies with an hourly price and a realistic first day.
- RoleBookkeeper, accountant, finance analyst, AP or AR clerk, HR coordinator, admin or service desk.
- SeniorityHowever you’d describe it, junior through senior.
- First dayThe first morning you need someone at the desk.
- How longA rough number of weeks works, and plenty of assignments run long.
- AddressWhich Twin Cities office the seat is in, and whether it sits inside Minneapolis city limits.
Prefer to start with a number? Ask for a bill rate quote or phone 949-706-6990.
