Weekly Hourly Hiring Report 7/6/2021

How COVID-19 is affecting hourly work

Weekly Hourly Hiring Report 7/6/21

Highlights

Overall jobs are up 66% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 4% month over month growth and 100% year over year growth. Google searches for hourly jobs are down 7% year over year.

The labor shortage remains a hot and complicated topic—in fact, the term “labor shortage” was searched more in May 2021 than during any other month in Google’s history. Here are the contributing factors: 

• The June Jobs Report, released right before the holiday weekend, noted that employers added 850,000 jobs last month. That’s the biggest total jobs increase in the past 10 months, and it exceeded expert predictions by 22%. 

• While the increase in jobs was the strongest since last August, and more Americans are rejoining the labor force, the total number of adults working or looking for work was flat in June (61.6%)—1.7 percentage points below its pre-pandemic level.

• The leisure and hospitality industry is experiencing rapid growth—nearly 1 in 4 jobs created last month were in restaurants and bars. However, leisure and hospitality jobs are still down 12.9% from pre-pandemic norms.

• Workers’ wages have risen substantially, up 3.6% overall year over year, with hospitality workers making 7.9% more in June than they were pre-pandemic. 

• Experts say that in order for the job market to fully recover, the increased wage trend must continue.

Jobs

All industry data is from 3/2/20-7/5/21

Here are the latest job numbers by industry:

Quick service restaurant (QSR) jobs are down 20% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 5% month over month growth and 3% year over year growth.

Sit-down restaurant jobs are down 41% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing a 13% month over month decline and 11% year over year growth.

Warehouse and logistics jobs are up 239% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 26% month over month growth and 155% year over year growth.

Retail jobs are up 10% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 19% month over month growth and 57% year over year growth.

Grocery jobs are up 82% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 2% month over month growth and 57% year over year growth.

Hospitality jobs are up 279% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 70% month over month growth and 350% year over year growth.

On demand jobs are up 160% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 9% month over month growth and 220% year over year growth.

Convenience store jobs are down 18% compared to pre-pandemic norms, seeing 7% month over month growth and 7% year over year growth.

Healthcare jobs are up 94% compared to pre-pandemic norms, flat month over month decline and 88% year over year growth.

Workers

Google searches for hourly jobs are down 9% year over year.

The bottom line

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