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Subscribe to RSSHere’s another piece of good news on the temporary job front: A new survey says more hiring managers plan to add more seasonal employees this year than in the past two years.
Still, seasonal employment is not expected to reach the levels we saw in 2007, on the eve of the recession.
In its third annual survey, SnagAJob.com said 50 percent of hiring managers responsible for adding seasonal workers plan to do so. That’s up from 47 percent in 2009 and 43 percent in 2008.
In 2007, 51 percent of managers added seasonal employees.
On average, hiring managers expect to hire 3.9 seasonal workers, up from 3.1 in 2009 and 3.7 in 2008. In 2007, hiring managers added 5.6 seasonal workers on average.
The average hourly pay for seasonal employees also got a slight boost, to $10.60 an hour. That’s up from $10.40 an hour in 2009 and $10 an hour in 2008. The survey did not have average wages from 2007.
The data are based on a survey from Ipsos Public Affairs, which polled around 1,000 people responsible for hiring seasonal hourly employees in fields including retail, restaurants, customer service and healthcare.
Of course, a seasonal temporary job is not as good as a permanent one. Still, even a temporary reprieve should be welcome for many of the millions of Americans who are unemployed, and especially those who have exhausted unemployment benefits.
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Thanks Congress for leaving people in the lurch while you go enjoy your holiday!
We appreciate you not passing a budget and cleaning out the ethics swamp. I hope your raises and increased budgets helped you out!
You're too polite KaptainKrunch. What is really wrong is they get full pay whether they actually do anything or not while a lot of us can't even find an hourly pay job. Temp jobs are almost jobs like a bandaid is almost like medical care.
Our government should be ashamed of its self! There are millions of people losing their jobs and without jobs... While they sit there with their big fat paychecks and bonuses.............. I for one find this bail out of the banks crap to be just that crap! Give every tax paying citizen and I mean tax paying only a million dollars of our own and let us flood the economy, I am sure most people will pay those loans they have been struggling to pay since the government got stupid and starting wasting our money! Give me back my money morons it doesn't belong to you or the banks!
I think we the people need to get off our A@$#&# and stand up too the corporate greed in America! Mr. Obama I don't care about health care! Tell me how you plan too feed the children living below poverty level and employee the people who elected you, seasonal jobs my butt! Wake up America......THEY ARE ROBBING US BLIND AND DESTROYING OUR FUTURES WHILE THEY GET FAT!
FloridaMom 74 - You nailed it!!!! Our greedy POS goverment has ZERO intentions of helping out the American people. THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION NEEDS TO GO!!!! TIME TO REVOLT!!!
America, news flash. There will be no Christmas this year. We are all still in "Lock Down" mode.
Let's start making products here in the United States instead of buying our products from overseas. We've lost so many jobs to overseas companys.