Green Bay Event Staffing
TempGuru · Green Bay, WI · Updated July 2026
Staffing Titletown, where a Packers sellout is the region's biggest single-day job, the cold lands on the lots and the gates, and the crew is set before the parking opens.
Scroll. It gets specific.01The Ground Truth
In Green Bay, the Packers set the calendar, and a Lambeau sellout is the region's biggest single-day job.
The Packers set the year here, and eight or nine home dates from September into January turn Lambeau Field and its parking lots into the largest single-day operation in northeast Wisconsin. About eighty-one thousand fans come through the gates in a tight window, so bag check, ticket scan, and the concourse crew are set and briefed before the lots even open, not after. A short drive away, the Resch Center and Resch Expo run hockey, basketball, concerts, and expos, and downtown on the Fox River the KI Convention Center holds the convention calendar. The game day sets the standard. Crew a Lambeau sellout in January, and the Resch dates and the KI Convention Center calendar fall into place behind it.
Quick Answer
Event work in Green Bay, WI runs $28 to $34 an hour for the core roles, gate crew, ushers, general labor, and load-in. Supervisors and team leads come in at $38 to $44. The specialized end, bartenders, AV, and brand ambassadors for a suite reception, runs $44.50 to $64.50. Every number is all-in: the hourly pay sits next to the workers' comp, the general liability, and the payroll taxes on a partner agency's books, and the crew is W-2 from the moment they clock on.
You place one order and one coordinator owns it start to finish. A count comes back confirmed within 24 to 48 hours, faster when a game week is bearing down, and most dates lock two to four weeks ahead. Packers home dates and the Resch Expo shows book the furthest out. On a January kickoff the sheet protects the drive and the gate line first, so call times move up well before anyone counts seats.
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02The Map
A downtown convention core on the river, and the stadium a short drive southwest.
Downtown Green Bay sits on the Fox River, and its event core is the KI Convention Center, about eighty thousand square feet on the bank, connected to the Hyatt Regency and its meeting floors. Badge desks, general labor, and freight run here on the convention and trade-show calendar, timed to the hall rather than to a kickoff. The river splits the downtown, so the Broadway district on the west side and the East Town blocks carry the walkable restaurant and festival work.
The operation that defines the market is a short drive southwest. Lambeau Field and the Lambeau Field Atrium anchor the Stadium District in Ashwaubenon, with Titletown, the thirty-four-acre district the Packers built, just west of the bowl, and across the street the Resch Center and the Resch Expo run hockey, basketball, concerts, and expos. Austin Straubel International sits a few minutes further southwest. A game-day crew works the gates and lots here, then De Pere to the south and Bellevue to the east fill the suburban dates, so the call sheet answers to the gate plan and the cold, not to the marquee.
"The stadium is the operation. What sets the call sheet is the gate plan, and the cold on a January kickoff."Megan Hayward, Founder & CEO, TempGuru
Venue and logistics notes
Lambeau Field and the Atrium. Home of the Packers, about eighty-one thousand seats, with the Lambeau Field Atrium a five-story event hall on the east side that holds the Pro Shop and the Packers Hall of Fame. Game-day crew works bag check and scan at the gates, ushers the bowl, and holds the concourse, while the Atrium runs its own receptions on non-game dates.
The Resch Center and Resch Expo, Ashwaubenon. Across the street from Lambeau, the ten-thousand-seat Resch Center runs Gamblers hockey, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay basketball, Blizzard football, and concerts, and the Resch Expo next door, opened in 2021, carries the expos and trade shows. Gate credentials and event-day lots buy a check-in cushion.
The KI Convention Center, downtown. About eighty thousand square feet on the Fox River, connected to the Hyatt Regency. Freight rolls in off the downtown dock, so the build stages early and the call times run to the hall rather than the curb. Badge desks and banquet crew on the convention calendar.
Titletown, west of Lambeau. The thirty-four-acre district the Packers built west of the bowl, with Lodge Kohler, festivals, and a winter tubing hill and skating on the plaza. Game-day parking overflow, plus its own event calendar that runs a warm-season and a cold-season program.
03What We Staff
The Packers lead the calendar, the arena and the convention hall fill it in.
Sort a year of Green Bay orders and Packers game days sit on top. Eight or nine home dates from September into January turn Lambeau Field into the biggest single-day job in the region: bag check and ticket scan at the gates, ushers through the seating bowl, crowd crews on the concourse, and hospitality in the Lambeau Field Atrium on the east side. The lots and the Titletown overflow open hours before kickoff.
The Resch Center and Resch Expo come next, with Gamblers hockey, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay basketball, Blizzard football, concerts, and the expo-hall trade shows a few steps from Lambeau. The KI Convention Center carries the downtown conventions and banquets, Titletown runs its own festival and winter calendar, and corporate and brand work from the Green Bay employers rounds out the book.
04The Math
Staff the gates, not the seat count.
Read the gates first, then the seats: 60 billable with 4 leads at about 14 each, crowd control and ushers weighted toward the doors-open crush. Calls stagger through the security screen so the perimeter holds before the rush lands, not after.
05The Clock
Book when the schedule drops, not game week.
Book early and you lock the crew and the rate. In Green Bay, the Packers home schedule sets the peak. Eight or nine game days from September into January turn Lambeau Field and its lots into the region's biggest single-day operation, and a January freeze only tightens the plan. The Resch Center and Resch Expo stack hockey, basketball, concerts, and expos through the winter, and the KI Convention Center holds the downtown convention calendar year-round, so the only quiet stretch is a short one in midsummer.
06The Rate
One rate per role, the comp and taxes already in it.
Ask for a role and the number that comes back is the whole cost of that worker, with workers' comp, liability, and payroll taxes already inside it. Approve a gate crew for a December kickoff or a badge desk at the KI Convention Center, and that same number is what bills, with nothing added after the lots empty.
| Role | Rate | Min shift |
|---|---|---|
| General labor / setup | $28–$34/hr | 4 hrs |
| Registration | $28–$34/hr | 4 hrs |
| Warehouse / logistics | $28–$34/hr | 4 hrs |
| Crowd control / ushers | $28–$34/hr | 4 hrs |
| Team leads / supervisors | $38–$44/hr | 4 hrs |
| Specialized (bar, AV, ambassadors) | $44.50–$64.50/hr | 4 hrs |
Wisconsin minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Every worker on this page is W-2, not 1099.
Rate basis: the TempGuru State of Event Staffing 2026 index, 345 markets.
07The Fine Print
In Wisconsin, the 1099 shortcut is the expensive one.
In Wisconsin, the expensive shortcut is paying event staff as 1099 contractors: back taxes, penalties, and joint-employer liability under federal FLSA and Wisconsin workers' compensation law.
TempGuru runs every worker as a W-2 employee through a vetted partner agency that acts as the employer of record, carrying the workers' comp, general liability, and payroll taxes on each one. Classification and payroll responsibility sits with that employing agency; your own obligations can still depend on how you direct the work and on applicable law. As W-2 employees, the crew also fall under the workplace protections, including federal Title VII, that apply to the agency's other staff.
- W-2 employment, not 1099
- Workers' compensation insurance
- General liability coverage
- Payroll taxes: FICA, FUTA, SUTA
08The Model
One coordinator who holds every gate.
You talk to one coordinator. Behind them, TempGuru pulls vetted W-2 crews from a roster of partner agencies and holds the relationships and the paperwork.
One coordinator, one crew, one invoice. When a December gate backs up in the cold and one scan lane stalls, one call reaches the coordinator, who has already moved a floater off a slower gate and pulled a lead to the busy cluster before kickoff.
| The moment | Gig app | TempGuru |
|---|---|---|
| Someone no-shows at 6 a.m. | A support ticket | A coordinator with a name |
| Workers’ comp | Check the fine print | In the rate |
| Classification & payroll | Yours to sort out | The partner agency’s, as employer of record |
The difference shows up at 6 a.m., not in the demo.
09A Sample Plan
An illustrative staffing order.
The biggest single day here is a Packers sellout, about eighty-one thousand through the gates on a cold afternoon, and the crew works zones, not a floor. Sixty people hold the bookable portion. Sixteen run bag check and ticket scan at the Lambeau gates from half past eight, fourteen ushers take the seating bowl and the stair aisles, ten on crowd control keep the concourse and the Atrium doors moving, eight on guest services cover will-call, accessibility, and the Lambeau Field Atrium, eight on the lot crew work the stadium lots and the Titletown overflow from half past seven, and four leads split the gate clusters, one channel each.
What a game day turns on is the gate, and in December it turns on the cold. Call times pull forward, the lot and gate crew get warm staging and rotations, and the plan clears the perimeter before the doors-open rush, not during it. That is sixty billable on a single order, the rate fixed before kickoff, the whole sheet run by one coordinator who planned to the gates and the cold instead of the marquee.
10Your Move
Your game day. Our crew. Set before the lots open.
Cheaper crews exist. Few will put a payrolled, W-2 floor on a Lambeau Field gate in January, hold every scan lane and concourse to its call time, and keep the whole game day on one coordinator from the first lot to the last sweep. When a sellout cannot wait on a no-show, that is the number to call.
Your Green Bay coordinator
Michelle Roberts
Michelle Roberts coordinates TempGuru's crews across the Southwest, West, and the corridor from Indiana to Texas. A retired Army Colonel, she has led staffing on TempGuru's military events.
(904) 206-8953 is TempGuru's national staffing desk. Every city, including Green Bay, runs through it.
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Sources & methodology · verified July 2026
- Min Wage · docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
- Workers Comp Law · docs.legis.wisconsin.gov
- Lambeau Field · en.wikipedia.org
- Lambeau Field Atrium · packers.com
- Resch Center · en.wikipedia.org
- Resch Expo · reschcomplex.com
- Ki Convention Center · greenbay.com
- Titletown · packers.com
- Packers 2026 Schedule · packers.com
Venue capacities, wage floors, statutes, and event dates for Green Bay are verified against the official sources above. Rate ranges derive from the TempGuru State of Event Staffing 2026 index.
