Labor Finders Franchise FDD, Costs & Fees (2025)

Labor Finders offers temporary staffing and employment services, connecting job seekers with temporary and temp-to-hire job opportunities.

Labor Finders is a U.S.-based staffing and temporary employment agency founded in 1975 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The company remains headquartered there and has grown to nearly 200 offices across the country.

It specializes in blue-collar staffing solutions, offering unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled labor for industries like construction, manufacturing, hospitality, landscaping, and retail.

Labor Finders began franchising shortly after its founding and is now recognized as the oldest and largest privately held industrial staffing franchise in the United States.

Franchisees operate employment service offices that provide temporary labor and payroll services to local businesses.

Initial investment

Here's what you would need to invest if you were to start this franchise. These costs are provided by the franchisor in the Franchise Disclosure Document.

Type of Expenditure Amount
Initial Franchise Fee$20,000
Travel$2,000 – $5,000
Living Expenses While Training$2,500 – $5,000
Office Rent Deposit$2,000 – $5,000
Office Furniture and Fixtures$5,000 – $10,000
Signage$1,500 – $10,000
Telephones$350 – $400
Telephone Answering Machine or Service$40 – $50
FAX Machine$0
Copier$400 – $750
Supplies$2,000 – $5,000
Computer System & Software$3,000 – $4,000
Utility Deposits$500 – $2,000
Insurance$30,000 – $40,000
Professional Services (legal/accounting)$5,000 – $15,000
Licenses & Permits$200 – $1,500
Advertising$1,000 – $5,000
Office Build-Out / Leasehold Improvements$3,000 – $30,000
Subtotal$78,490 – $159,700
Additional Operating Funds for 3 Months$74,345 – $195,000
Total$152,835 – $354,700
Type of Expenditure Amount
Initial Franchise Fee$20,000
Travel$2,000 – $5,000
Living Expenses While Training$2,500 – $5,000
Office Rent Deposit$2,000 – $5,000
Office Furniture and Fixtures$5,000 – $10,000
Signage$1,500 – $10,000
Telephones$350 – $400
Telephone Answering Machine or Service$40 – $50
FAX Machine$0
Copier$400 – $750
Supplies$2,000 – $5,000
Computer System & Software$3,000 – $4,000
Utility Deposits$500 – $2,000
Insurance$30,000 – $40,000
Professional Services (legal/accounting)$5,000 – $15,000
Licenses & Permits$200 – $1,500
Advertising$1,000 – $5,000
Office Build-Out / Leasehold Improvements$3,000 – $30,000
Subtotal$78,490 – $159,700
Additional Operating Funds for 3 Months$74,345 – $195,000
Total$152,835 – $354,700

Franchise Disclosure Document

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Training

Labor Finders provides a structured initial training program to ensure franchisees are prepared to operate their business effectively. The training is offered at their main office in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, or another acceptable location, and includes both classroom and on-the-job instruction. Here are the training components:

  1. Initial Training Program: This includes 30-44 hours of classroom instruction and 28-36 hours of on-the-job training. Topics covered are Sales, Marketing, Operations, Information Systems, Corporate Administration, and Risk Management.
  2. Operations Manual: Franchisees receive a loaned copy of the copyrighted Operations Manual, which includes mandatory and recommended procedures and standards.
  3. Set-Up Package: After completing initial training or signing the agreement, franchisees are provided with materials like master artwork for advertising and forms.
  4. Software Training: Labor Finders also licenses proprietary software and provides manuals and internet access to hosted systems essential for daily operations.

Territory Protection

Labor Finders provides franchisees with a defined exclusive territory, typically consisting of one or more contiguous counties. As long as the franchisee is in good standing and not in default, the franchisor agrees not to establish or authorize other offices—including those by its subsidiary LF Staffing—within this territory.

Franchisees must notify the franchisor about office locations but are not required to obtain approval for them.

This territorial protection, however, is tied to performance metrics known as Penetration Goals. If a franchisee fails to meet these goals, Labor Finders may reduce the territory to a smaller area around existing active offices—20 miles if the population is under 5 million, or 10 miles if over.

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