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Robert Half

Public company · NYSE: RHIroberthalf.comSEC verified

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In one line

“They’re basically a temp agency for accountants, lawyers, and tech workers.”

Robert Half finds and hires temporary and full-time workers for companies. They specialize in hard-to-fill jobs like accountants, software engineers, lawyers, and marketing pros. Think of them as a matchmaker between companies with open jobs and skilled workers looking for their next gig. Companies pay Robert Half a fee, and Robert Half pays the temp workers.

How they make money

revenue, fiscal year ended Dec 2025
Total revenue$5.4B
Main wayFees from hiring companies

Companies pay Robert Half when they need contract workers (temps) to fill jobs. Robert Half employs the temp workers and charges the companies a fixed rate for their hours worked. When a temp converts to a full-time job, the company pays a one-time conversion fee.

Also makes money from
  • Full-time job placement feesRobert Half also directly places people into permanent jobs at companies and earns fees for those placements.
  • Consulting services through ProtivitiThe company owns Protiviti, which provides business consulting services including risk, audit, and compliance work.

What it looks like

If your company needed to hire a temporary accountant right now:

  1. Contact Robert Half with your needs

    You call or go online to tell them what kind of worker you need—experience level, skills, how long for.

    Stated
  2. They find and send candidates

    Robert Half's recruiters use their knowledge and AI to find workers who match what you're looking for and present candidates to you.

    Stated
  3. You pay per hour for the worker

    You pay Robert Half a fixed rate only for the hours the temp actually works. If you want to hire them full-time later, you pay a one-time conversion fee.

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The fluff, decoded

3/10
They say

“Add specialized talent across your organization”

It means

Help you hire workers in specific fields.

They say

“leverages experience and award-winning AI to deliver top available talent”

It means

Use AI to match job seekers with open positions.

Every quote is checked against their homepage. If it isn't really there, it gets dropped.

Follow the incentives

Best guess
Who pays

Companies that need to hire contract workers or permanent employees pay Robert Half their fees.

Who uses it

Job seekers use Robert Half to find contract and full-time positions. Companies use Robert Half to find skilled workers to fill open roles.

So they want

They want to get better at matching the right workers to the right jobs faster, so companies keep using them and paying higher fees.

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Say it at dinner

“Robert Half is the company that finds temp accountants and programmers for businesses.”

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Receipts

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What the labels mean
Verified
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Stated
The company says it on its own website, including the customer logos it shows
Best guess
Our reading of the sources when nothing says it outright
Background
From Wikipedia, for history only, never numbers

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