KORE1 in New Orleans, priced November 2026
Temporary Staffing Agency in New Orleans, LA Accounting, admin and IT temps, temp-to-hire and hourly bill rates
Office temps for New Orleans finance and HR teams at port, energy, health and hotel employers, priced from national rate cells.
KORE1 is a temp agency in New Orleans. With no New Orleans cell in our index, these are national figures. A mid-level temp accountant bills $59 to $75 an hour, median $65, and a junior HR generalist $43 to $53.
Last updated: November 9, 2026
- Covered here
- Back-office temps for New Orleans employers. Accountants, AP and AR clerks, HR coordinators, front-office admin and IT support, hired by KORE1 and kept on our payroll until the assignment ends.
- Covered elsewhere
- Crews for hotels, kitchens, docks or warehouses aren’t on this page. Permanent hires and the rest of our city work live on the New Orleans staffing agency page.
Both figures are cells in the 2026-Q4 edition of KORE1’s Contract Rate Index, and they’re national cells rather than local ones, because the index doesn’t carry a New Orleans metro yet and we’d rather say so up front than dress a national number up as a city figure. A quote prices your seat against the local market.
Three months of a mid-level temp accountant at the national median runs about $33,900. A benchmark, nothing more. KORE1 carries the temp on its W2. Friday paychecks. Your manager runs the day. New to the model? Start with how KORE1 temps work, then come back for the numbers.
What Do Professional Temps Cost in New Orleans?
The index has no New Orleans cell, so every row below is a United States national figure, as of October 16, 2026. All three are modeled. A quote prices the local market.
| Temp seat | Index cell | Bill range | Median | 3 months | 6 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temp accountantUnited States (national) | Accountant, junior | $48 to $59 | $52 | $27,100 | $54,200 |
| Temp accountantUnited States (national) | Accountant, mid‑level | $59 to $75 | $65 | $33,900 | $67,900 |
| HR generalist tempUnited States (national) | HR generalist, junior | $43 to $53 | $46 | $24,200 | $48,400 |
Get the New Orleans figure the index doesn’t publish
Tell us the role and level, when the seat starts and how many weeks it runs. We’ll price that one seat against the local market.
- Every role and level the index prices sits in the national contract rate cells, side by side with the metros that do have their own.
- There’s no admin row because the index doesn’t model an admin role. Admin seats get priced individually.
- Most New Orleans asks are for accounting help. Our page on contract and temp accountants covers how those searches run.
- For the national guides, start with HR and recruiter contract rates, or read contract accountant bill rates for the accounting side.
Which New Orleans Employers Bring Office Temp Work?
The BLS New Orleans area economic summary put 472,900 people on nonfarm payrolls in September 2026. Education and health services led at 99,200. Trade, transportation and utilities came next at 84,100, then leisure and hospitality at 65,700 and professional and business services at 63,900.
Those sectors set the seats.
Health systems
Ochsner Health runs its flagship medical center on Jefferson Highway and counts 47 hospitals across the Gulf South. A system that size hires in waves, and every wave needs HR onboarding help and somebody keeping payables current.
Port and maritime
The Port of New Orleans sits at the center of a freight and maritime trade full of billing desks. Carrier invoices, vendor setup and AP fall behind fast after a system change, and the people who know the old process are usually the same ones buried in the new one. That’s a temp accountant’s month.
Hotels and the convention calendar
Hotel and restaurant groups staff their back offices for peak event months, and the calendar at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center keeps plenty of months busy, which is why the back-office crunch rarely lines up with one holiday weekend and usually runs for weeks. HR coordinators and AP clerks are the seats that open. Then they close.
Utility and energy
Entergy keeps its headquarters on Loyola Avenue, and the energy and petrochemical operators along the river corridor run big finance teams of their own, so invoice processing, reconciliations and close support tend to arrive with a project and leave when it does.
These employers are named to sketch the local economy. The page doesn’t claim any of them as a KORE1 client.
KORE1 Places New Orleans Desks, Not Kitchens
Type temp agency and New Orleans into a search bar and most of what comes back is hotel, kitchen and event labor. This page doesn’t staff it. Dock and warehouse crews aren’t on it either.
The seats here are back-office ones. Bookkeeping and accounting. Payables and receivables, HR coordination, front-office admin and IT support, at employers that run from a hotel group’s accounting floor in the CBD to a health system’s HR office off Jefferson Highway, and the work looks the same in both places once the door closes.
Want the wider Louisiana picture, permanent hires included? The New Orleans staffing agency page covers it, and Baton Rouge staffing covers the capital region upriver.
KORE1 runs this office-temp desk in other cities too, among them Houston, Dallas, Austin, Phoenix, Los Angeles County, Long Beach and Orange County. In the Midwest it also runs the Twin Cities temp desk.
How Does a New Orleans Temp Assignment Run, Start to Final Check?
Six stops, in order, like a car line down the neutral ground. You can get off at the fourth. The Louisiana rule waits at the last one.
Request
Day one
Name the seat, its level, the first day and how many weeks. We price that one seat.
First day
7 days
86% of KORE1 placements start within 7 days of the offer, across 1,997 starts.
Payday
Every Friday
KORE1 runs the W2 payroll. Taxes, workers’ comp and liability coverage sit inside the hourly bill.
Transfer
1,040 hours
Past this point the temp can move onto your staff with no conversion fee.
Last day
End date
Your manager approves the final timesheet. Extensions are common, so say early if you need one.
Final check
15 days
Louisiana wants final wages by the next regular payday or within 15 days, whichever comes first. KORE1 pays it.
What Louisiana Rules Touch a New Orleans Temp Engagement?
Two of them come up. Both are short. Neither one is exotic, and both decide who does what when a seat ends.
- La. R.S. 23:631
- When an employee is discharged, final wages are due on or before the next regular payday or no later than 15 days after the discharge, whichever comes first. A resigning employee is owed them by the next regular payday for that pay cycle or within 15 days. KORE1 owes that check as the W2 employer, under the statute’s text.
- La. R.S. 23:642
- Its title reads “Setting minimum wage or employee benefits; prohibited.” It keeps New Orleans and every other parish or city from imposing its own minimum wage, or a required count of sick or vacation days, paid or unpaid, on private employers, per La. R.S. 23:642.
So no city ordinance adds a wage floor or a leave count to a New Orleans seat, and the final check is a payroll date that KORE1 has to hit, not you. Ask any agency who runs that last check before you sign. Get the answer in writing.
“The only SLAs that we have is that our… people are going to show up on time, that we’re going to pay them on Fridays.”
Who Employs, Insures and Pays a New Orleans Temp?
KORE1, from the first shift to the last check. We hold the W2 for every hour of the assignment.
Friday pay, employer taxes, workers’ comp and liability coverage all sit with us, priced into the hourly bill, which the index builds on a 24% employer load, the same load we use in every example we publish, whatever the city or the role. Your manager approves hours and directs the work. Inside your office, the temp is simply part of the team.
Can you keep a New Orleans temp after the busy months?
Often, yes. Once the temp passes 1,040 hours, roughly half a year of full-time work, you can convert a temp to a hire with no conversion fee, and KORE1’s records show 207 conversions out of 552 contract-to-hire placements, a rate of 37.5%.
There’s one limit to know. A temp carries no replacement guarantee.
“You can get them quick… it’s a flexible opportunity for an organization to scale up, to scale down as needed.”
How Does KORE1 Serve New Orleans Without an Office There?
Remotely, then on your site. Recruiting runs from our team, wherever the recruiter happens to sit that week, and the temp shows up at your address on the first morning with the timesheet process already explained and a KORE1 contact to call.
Across 1,997 KORE1 placements, 86% started within 7 days of the offer. It’s a company-wide number across every role we place rather than a New Orleans one, and we don’t claim a New Orleans office or a New Orleans placement count, because neither would be true and you’d find out on the first call. What we do have is a payroll that runs every Friday no matter which parish the desk sits in.
$65
national median per hour for a mid-level temp accountant, modeled
$46
national median per hour for a junior HR generalist temp, modeled
86%
of KORE1 placements start within 7 days of the offer (n=1,997)
37.5%
of KORE1 contract-to-hire placements became permanent hires (207 of 552)
National 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 New Orleans Office Seats Does KORE1 Fill?
Each desk below runs on identical W2 terms, recruited by the same team.
Finance
Bookkeepers and accountants
Month-end close, reconciliations and the backlog that builds after a system change.
Accounting contract staffingPayables
AP and AR clerks
Freight billing, vendor setup and invoice processing through a heavy quarter.
AP and AR specialist staffingPeople
HR coordinators
Onboarding waves at a health system and hiring pushes ahead of peak event months.
Human resources staffingOffice and IT
Front-office admin and IT support
Reception, scheduling and help desk cover through a leave, an office move or a cutover.
Help desk staffing
Common Questions
Why does this page show national rates for New Orleans?
Because the KORE1 Contract Rate Index has no New Orleans cell, every figure here is a United States national one. Nationally, a mid-level temp accountant bills $59 to $75 an hour, median $65, as of October 16, 2026. A quote prices your seat against the local market.
Who owes a temp’s final pay in Louisiana when the assignment ends?
KORE1 owes it, because KORE1 is the W2 employer. Under La. R.S. 23:631, a discharged employee’s final wages are due by the next regular payday or within 15 days, whichever comes first, and a resigning employee’s by the next regular payday for that pay cycle or within 15 days.
Does KORE1 staff hotel, kitchen or port labor in New Orleans?
No, not on this page. The seats here are office ones, meaning bookkeeping and accounting, payables and receivables, HR coordination, front-office admin and IT support, whether the employer is a hotel group, a port operator or a hospital.
Talk to KORE1 About a New Orleans Close, AP or Onboarding Backlog
A month-end close that slipped, a payables pile or an onboarding wave. Answer the five prompts below and a recruiter replies with an hourly price and a realistic first day.
- RoleBookkeeper, accountant, AP or AR clerk, HR coordinator, admin or IT support.
- 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 New Orleans office the seat is in, and whether it’s hybrid.
Prefer to start with a number? Ask for a bill rate quote or phone 949-706-6990.
