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Established healthcare recruiting firm with strong margins, proprietary database, and significant growth potential. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a highly profitable, home-based healthcare recruiting firm specializing in the placement of physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs). Founded in 2007, the business has built a strong reputation and long-standing relationships with healthcare systems and private practices across Arizona and California. The company operates with minimal overhead, no employees, and generates strong discretionary earnings. The business includes a valuable proprietary database of approximately 73,000 candidates and over 2,000 client contacts, providing a significant competitive advantage and barrier to entry. The current owner works approximately 30 hours per week and maintains approximately 60 active agreements, with 10 active clients and 20–25 open positions at any given time. There is substantial opportunity to grow the business by expanding into additional geographic markets, increasing owner involvement, hiring additional recruiters, and targeting larger healthcare systems with multi-state operations. This opportunity is ideal for an independent recruiter or staffing firm seeking entry or expansion in the healthcare recruitment sector. The owner is selling due to retirement and is willing to provide transition support. Sales revenue and Cash Flow (SDE) shown is for 2025. Business is listed by HUB AZ Brokers (ADRE #LC688931000), an affiliate of Sunbelt Business Brokers in the State of Arizona. All listing and financial information to be verified by buyer during due diligence.
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This is a rare opportunity to acquire a highly specialized physician and advanced practice provider recruiting firm with 15 years of operating history and nationwide placement capability. The company focuses exclusively on permanent placement of physicians and nurse practitioners / physician assistants for private practices, specialty groups, and healthcare organizations across the United States. Key Highlights: 15-year established brand Approximately 20 active recurring clients ~300 direct open job orders ~100 additional roles via recruiting partners ~400 total active job openings 800,000-candidate proprietary database Lean, high-margin, remote model Weighted Avg. SDE: $157,165 Offered at 2.38x SDE The business operates without a physical office, allowing for minimal overhead and geographic flexibility. A significant portion of revenue is derived from repeat and referral clients, reflecting strong satisfaction and long-term relationships. Ideal Buyer Existing recruiting firm seeking healthcare niche expansion Experienced recruiter seeking ownership Healthcare staffing operator Strategic buyer seeking bolt-on acquisition Remote business investor seeking high-margin service platform Further financial documentation available to qualified buyers upon execution of a confidentiality agreement. Financial information shown (Revenue and Cash Flow) are calculated based on a weighted average for 2023 -2025. The business is listed by HUB AZ Brokers (ADRE #LC688931000), an affiliate of Sunbelt Business Brokers in the State of Arizona. All listing and financial information to be verified by the buyer during due diligence.
This fast-growing Employer of Record (EOR) and Back-Office Solutions company operates on a proprietary technology platform fully owned by the seller. The system allows seamless onboarding, payroll administration, compliance, white-label portals for each client, and automated workflows. Each client receives their own branded portal, creating high retention and strong licensing potential. The company provides full back-office support, including payroll processing, compliance, workers’ compensation coverage nationwide, and optional factoring/payroll funding services. Founded in 2024, the company has scaled rapidly by leveraging both technology and strong industry demand.
National transaction benchmarks for staffing agency businesses.
Under $500K
$500K to $2M
Over $2M
A variety of factors can cause businesses to trade outside this range, including earnings quality, operational transferability, key-person risk, growth trajectory, and geography, so a listing priced above or below the typical multiple usually reflects real differences in the underlying business.
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Key diligence, valuation, financing, and transition considerations for buyers evaluating staffing agency acquisitions.
You pay temporary workers every week but collect from clients on 30- to 60-day terms. That gap, called the payroll float, ties up far more cash as you grow, not less. Many buyers underwrite the purchase price and forget they also need a payroll-funding or factoring line to cover wages between paychecks and collections. Model the working-capital need at your target revenue before you sign anything.
Contract and temp revenue behaves nothing like direct-hire placement revenue. Temp staffing is recurring, lower-margin, and earns a spread on every hour billed; direct-hire is a one-time fee that is lumpy and tied to hiring cycles. A book that is mostly recurring temp revenue is more predictable and usually more valuable than one riding on a few big placement fees. Get the revenue split before you value the business.
Check how much of the revenue rides on the top three clients. Staffing relationships can end with a single procurement decision or a master service agreement non-renewal. If one account is 40% of billings, the business is one phone call away from a very different valuation. Ask for revenue by client and the status of every major contract.
As the employer of record, you carry workers' compensation, unemployment, and co-employment exposure. Your workers' comp experience-modifier rate directly drives cost, and worker-misclassification claims (treating someone as a contractor who should be an employee) can be expensive. Review the comp history, the classification practices, and any open claims before close.
Many client and candidate relationships live with individual recruiters, not with the company. If a producing recruiter leaves and takes a desk's worth of clients to a competitor, you have bought less than you paid for. Identify the key recruiters, understand their compensation, and make sure enforceable non-solicitation terms and retention incentives are part of the deal.
Staffing agencies tend to trade around two-and-a-half times SDE. Across 132 staffing and employment-placement transactions in the comp data, the median sale was about 2.4x SDE, with most deals landing roughly between 1.6x and 3.8x, and revenue multiples near 0.36x. SDE means seller's discretionary earnings, the profit plus owner's salary and add-backs. Marketplace listings have skewed toward Tier 2 ($500K to $2M), with a median asking price around $800K.
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