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Staffing Employment and Sales Survey This survey is conducted on a quarterly basis and collects information on temporary and contract staffing sales, payroll, and employment. ASA has been conducting this survey on a quarterly basis since 1992. View quarterly and annual employment and payroll data back to 1990 here. Staffing Employment Grew 8% in 2011
March 6, 2012—U.S. staffing companies employed an average of 2.8 million temporary and contract workers per day in 2011, up 8% from 2010, according to data released by the American Staffing Association. In 2011, U.S. staffing firms hired 12.9 million temporary and contract employees over the course of the year. "Although the staffing industry employs only two of every 100 nonfarm workers on any given day, it has provided income for millions of American families—about one of every 10 nonfarm workers held a job with a staffing company at some point in 2011," said Richard Wahlquist, American Staffing Association president and chief executive officer. In the fourth quarter of 2011, average daily staffing employment totaled 2.98 million workers, up 5.2% from the third quarter and up 5.8% from the fourth quarter of 2010. The October through December period marked eight consecutive quarters of year-to-year staffing job growth since the recession ended in 2009. "As the economy continued to slowly improve, staffing and recruiting companies played an important role in putting America back to work in 2011, helping close to 13 million people find temporary, contract, or permanent jobs," said Wahlquist. "Through career counseling, training, employment, and job placement, staffing and recruiting companies add value to peoples' lives across every sector and occupation." Temporary and contract sales totaled $98.3 billion in 2011, 12.4% higher than in 2010. Fourth quarter sales totaled $26.2 billion, up 10.0% from the same quarter last year. These figures are based on the ASA quarterly employment and sales survey, which has been newly benchmarked to recently released employment services data from the 2007 U.S. Census of Business. Data series have been adjusted back to 1990, when ASA began estimating the size of staffing industry employment and sales. The ASA Staffing Index, a 2006-to-present employment metric based on a weekly survey benchmarked to the census, has also been revised. See Methodology of ASA Economic Surveys for details on the benchmarking of both surveys. The ASA quarterly survey of temporary and contract staffing collects data on sales, payroll, and employment. ASA has been conducting this survey on a quarterly basis since 1992. It is the only survey-based estimate of U.S. temporary and contract sales. The survey also tracks employment and payroll, with results that parallel the establishment surveys of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, survey participants account for some 10,000 establishments, about a third of the industry, making the sample at least five times greater than BLS's. Participate in the Survey ASA invites all U.S. staffing firms to participate in the quarterly Staffing Employment and Sales Survey. There are no fees to participate, and those who complete the survey receive an exclusive report on the results, which includes payroll data available nowhere else. For the first time, ASA will begin tracking temporary and contract staffing sales and gross margin data by sector. Survey participants are asked to provide data for all of the sectors in which their firm operates. Below is a list of these sectors:
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