Weekly Hourly Hiring Report 2/2/2021

Overall jobs are up 19% week over week, up 29% month over month, and up 8% since March. Google searches for part-time jobs are up 25% month over month. 

Trend data continues to highlight the unevenness of the economy’s recovery from the impact of the pandemic. While the housing and stock markets are booming, applications for state unemployment benefits remain extremely high.

While COVID vaccine adoption has been mixed, businesses continue to encourage their employees to get vaccinated. Some, such as Sodexo, Benchmark Senior Living and school systems across the country are hosting informational sessions to increase employee confidence. Others, like Olive Garden, Dollar General, and ALDI are compensating frontline workers for the time they spend getting vaccinated.  And Anheuser-Busch announced they will forgo a Super Bowl ad spot this year and will instead devote that prime ad spot to spreading awareness of the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Things are looking up, and people want to get back to work. We’ll be keeping an eye on the Labor Department’s jobs report, which will be released Friday, February 5. 

Jobs

All industry data is from 3/2/20-2/1/21

Here are the latest job numbers by industry:

Quick service restaurant (QSR) jobs are down 1% week over week, down 1% month over month and down 29% since early March.

Sit-down restaurant jobs are up 4% week over week, up 1% month over month and down 46% since early March.

Warehouse and logistics jobs are up 13% week over week, down 57% month over month and up 19% since early March.

Retail jobs are down 1% week over week, down 1% month over month and down 33% since early March.

Grocery jobs are down 2% week over week, down 4% month over month and up 34% since early March.

Hospitality jobs are down 2% week over week, down 14% month over month and down 55% since early March.

On demand jobs are up 43% week over week, up 52% month over month and up 64% since early March.

Convenience store jobs are flat week over week, down 5% month over month and down 32% since early March.

Healthcare jobs are down 4% week over week, up 40% month over month and up 42% since early March.

Workers

Google searches for part-time jobs are down 1% week over week, up 25% month over month and down 7% since early March.

The bottom line

As always, we’re staying tuned to economists, industry leaders and credible data sources—including our own. Plus, we continue to talk to hourly workers and employers to see how they’re feeling about the situation. 

We’ll keep you informed as the job market evolves in the critical weeks ahead with weekly report and infographics.