IOS Staffing Services review: services, fees and terms
IOS Staffing Services places temps, temp-to-hire staff and permanent hires with insurance agencies and other insurance businesses across the US. It can also put a worker you found on its payroll.
Every service is quoted. Direct-hire billing waits 30 days after the placement.
- Best for
- Agencies and carriers that need temps, temp-to-hire or payroll for a worker they found
- Type
- Temp, temp-to-hire, direct hire, payrolling and RPO
- Roles
- Account managers, CSRs, licensed agents, underwriters, claims and raters
- Lines
- All lines, including P&C, life and workers comp
- Fee
- Quote only. Direct-hire billing waits 30 days
- Agency types
- Insurance agencies and other insurance businesses
Our take
IOS Staffing Services suits an agency or carrier that needs temps, wants to try a worker before hiring or has found someone and wants IOS to carry the payroll. It has staffed insurance offices since 1983.
Everything is quoted, but direct-hire billing waits 30 days after the placement. IOS also promises not to place your hire anywhere else for two years.
Pros
- Direct-hire billing deferred 30 days
- Won't place your hire elsewhere for two years
- Payrolling for people you find yourself
- Temp-to-hire to try a worker first
- Custom bills and reports for staffing partners
Cons
- All fees by quote
- No published guarantee
- Temp conversion fee isn't published
- Screening steps described only in general terms
Roles, lines and region
- Roles
- Account managers, CSRs, licensed agents, underwriters and assistants, claims staff, adjusters, examiners, raters and coders, office and operations staff
- Seniority
- Support staff through experienced specialists
- Lines
- All insurance lines, including P&C, commercial, life, workers comp and medical claims billing
- Agency types
- Insurance agencies and other insurance businesses
- Where
- Anywhere in the US, with remote account manager and claims jobs
How they work
Temp and contract
IOS staff on assignment at your office or remotely.
Temp-to-hire
Judge the person's work on the job before you hire them.
Direct hire
A permanent hire, billed 30 days after the placement.
Payrolling
You find the person and IOS puts them on its payroll as a temp.
Outsourced recruiting (RPO)
IOS runs recruiting for your insurance roles.
Fees and when you pay
- Fees
- Quoted for every service
- Direct-hire billing
- Deferred 30 days after the placement
Guarantee
Ask for the replacement guarantee in writing before you sign. IOS publishes no guarantee on direct hires. Billing waits 30 days after the placement, but get any guarantee terms in writing too.
Finding and screening candidates
- Where candidates come from
- Public applications plus people who finished earlier IOS assignments
- Interviews
- Recruiters screen for the work and your culture
- References
- Collected on the application, with permission to call
- Background checks
- Consent collected on the temp application
Exclusivity and off-limits
- Off-limits (a promise not to recruit your staff)
- IOS won't reach out to people working at insurance businesses
- After a direct hire
- IOS won't place your hire anywhere else for two years without your consent
Temporary staffing and conversion
- Temp roles
- Temporary and contract staff, on site or remote
- Payrolling
- IOS puts a person you found on its payroll as a temp
- Timesheets
- Online, through a staffing software portal
- Reports
- Custom bills and management reports under a staffing partnership
IOS Staffing Services alternatives
- Insurance ReliefQuote onlyNo fee to start and a conversion fee set in advance
- QuestproQuote onlyTemps plus contingency and retained search
- The Jonus GroupQuote onlyNationwide contingency search for agency roles
- The Jacobson GroupQuote onlyVolume temps for insurers' contract-staff programs
See every option in insurance recruiting firms.
Frequently asked questions
How much does IOS Staffing Services charge?
Every service is quoted. No rates are published for agencies.
When do I pay for a direct hire?
IOS defers billing for 30 days after the placement.
What is payrolling?
You find the worker and IOS puts them on its payroll as a temp, so it handles the employer side.
Will IOS recruit my staff away?
IOS says it won't reach out to people working at insurance businesses. It also won't place your direct hire elsewhere for two years without your consent.
How we researched this review. We based this review on the terms and product pages published by IOS Staffing Services, reviewed in October 2026, together with our team's experience working with insurance agents and agency owners since 2008.
Corrections
Vendors change their pricing all the time and they don't email us when they do. So if you see a price on here that's gone up, a plan IOS Staffing Services quit selling or a contract term that reads different now, let us know and send the link to the page where IOS Staffing Services has it. Somebody here pulls up that page and checks it before we change anything on ours.