April Staffing Up 6.9% From a Year Ago

ASA Staffing Index Monthly Report

April Staffing Up 6.9% From a Year Ago

Staffing employment in April is up 6.9% from April 2011, according to the ASA Staffing Index.
The index value for April is 91, up two points from the 89 reported for March. Since the beginning of 2012, temporary and contract employment has grown 22.0%, according to the index.
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The ASA Staffing Index is reported nine days after each workweek, making it a virtual real-time measure of staffing employment trends. ASA research shows that staffing employment is a coincident economic indicator and leading employment indicator. Data for the index are gathered by ASA research partner Inavero, a market research firm based in Portland, OR.

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