Temporary Medical Staffing Agency: Start-Up Costs

How much money do you need?before I actually secured my first account. It was not
In my experience I have seen medical staffingdifficult to do and many medical facilities require certain
agencies start-up capital range from $5,000 tokey documents to get started. THey usually don't care
$300,000. Having more money does not guaranteeif you have a office, answering service, marketing
success and having less money does not mean failure.material or any expensive start-up costs.
How much money you will need will depend on manyTo get started you need just a few basic inexpensive
factors. Some of which will depend on if you arekey elements. It does not matter if you are a nurse,
planning to rent an office, hire employees or work theultrasound tech, radiology tech, respiratory tech or any
business initially yourself.other medical niche.
Take a look at the bottom list, it will give you a betterI found that people make it so difficult to start there
idea as to the cost opening up a medical staffingmedical staffing agency. You can start your medical
agency. The list assumes you are opening up anstaffing agency in less than a week and have our first
actual office. I have consulted for many medicalcontract before the month is over. It is very easy and
staffing agencies and I have seen some of the mostthe simle steps to get started are fundamental and
successful medical staffing agencies start from aeasy.
room in there garage a cell phone and conductYou can choose to spend thousands of dollars, you
meetings at Starbucks.can hundreds of thousands of dollars to franchises or
Start-Up Expensesyou can simply just start.
Rent/deposit $600 -$4,000Starting your medical staffing agency is a simple ten
Equipment: $2,000-$5000step process. The process is not difficult and you
Software: $500-$2000should not have to pay ten thousand dollars to learn
Insurance: $100-$4000how.
Signage $500-$1500It should not take you more than five days to be up
Leashold improvements $0-$3000and running. Your medical staffing agency does require
Legal/Accounting $200-3000certain documents and certain types of insurance, but
Owner Salary $3000-$5000those are easy to get and do not require much leg
Advertising $500-$2000work.
Phone/Utilities $200-$700If you are in the industry and are looking to provide
Misc $200-$500medical staffing services using you as an independent
Can You Start With Less Than $5,000?contractor, you already have half the battle done. Your
Yes you can, it is possible and it has been done. Theremedical staffing services can be offered in less than
are many factors to consider when starting a medicalfive days. I was able to get my entire medical staffing
staffing agency. You can start for under $5,000 if youbusiness up and running in less than two days, but it
decide to it on your own, staff yourself and slowlywas because I have years of experience working in
grow.the medical staffing industry.
I started my medical staffing agency for under $1,000