Start your UTemp hire
Last updated: August 18, 2025
Whether you need coverage for an employee’s leave, expertise for a special project, interim assistance to fill a gap in your workforce or extra help in a pinch, UTemp is ready to partner with you!
Our team strives to provide timely, cost-effective and creative solutions to meet your contingent staffing needs. Contact us to tap into our network of motivated and qualified individuals.
Get started with UTemp Staffing
To begin, please complete our new intake order form, and then a UTemp recruiter will contact you to discuss the details of your request via phone, Teams, Zoom, or email — whichever you prefer. If you’d rather speak with a recruiter before submitting the form, email utemp@uw.edu or call 206-543-3652.
Working with UTemp
UTemp Staffing is the University of Washington’s source for contingent and short-term staffing. Like private agencies, UTemp recruits and screens applicants, connects qualified candidates with temporary work opportunities, onboards and offboards temporary employees, and supports employee relations and performance needs.
As a self-sustaining unit, UTemp charges fees for its services that are comparable to—and in many cases lower than—those charged by external temporary staffing agencies. Our aim is to break even, and not make a profit, so we can keep our rates as low as possible.
Effective August 18, 2025, UTemp charges a $3.75/hour service fee. Learn more about UTemp’s fee structure.
Fast facts
Each year our highly experienced recruiters fill hundreds of orders and our temps work thousands of hours. From 2022–2024:
- We filled 1,423 temp orders.
- Our temps worked 942,528 hours at the UW.
UTemp forms lasting partnerships and opportunities. Over a three-year period:
- 57% of individuals were still employed through UTemp.
- 26% of our temps had landed permanent positions at the UW.