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Temporary Jobs in the U.S. to Grow Faster Than All Jobs Through 2025

Forty-two percent of people picking up temporary work take on at least two gigs per week1 and new research shows they will have even more opportunities to choose from. Temporary Help Services is the largest category of gig employment and serves as a bellwether for broader growth trends.

A study by TrueBlue and Emsi projects that Temporary Help Services employment will grow to more than 3.2 million jobs by 2025, an increase of nearly 254,000 jobs (8.5 percent) from 2019. This compares to 6 percent growth for all U.S. jobs from 2019 to 2025.

The study is based on Emsi’s data, which is aggregated from state and federal employment sources. The analysis focuses on Temporary Help Services workers who are employed by companies as well as self-employed.

Key Findings:

“How companies and people look at work is different today, likely inspired by the memories of a casualty-ridden recession and the emergence of new technologies that make it easy to connect in real time for on-demand employment needs,” said Patrick Beharelle, CEO of TrueBlue. “Gig employment will continue to grow in popularity as more companies choose to reduce fixed labor costs to stay nimble and workers gravitate toward flexible work experiences that fit their lifestyles.”

“The labor market continues to be tight, and businesses are using many avenues to find the talent to keep their competitive edge,” said Rob Sentz, Emsi’s chief innovation officer. “This analysis indicates that gigs and other forms of temporary employment are a viable way for people to enter the labor market and for companies to quickly locate talent.”

1 and 2 TrueBlue’s October 2019 survey of more than 4,000 U.S. gig workers.

The fastest-growing temporary occupations from 2019 to 2025 include:

OccupationTemporary Employment2019Temporary Employment2025Temporary EmploymentGrowth2019 to 2025
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand544.450598,07753,62710%
Helpers – Production Workers96,191120,90024,70926%
Packers and Packagers, Hand124,098136,56512,46710%
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators57,42962,9585,52910%
Human Resources Specialists54,74660,1565,41010%
Stock Clerks and Order Fillers47,95152,6134,66210%
Office Clerks, General118,404123,0164,6124%
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders46,84351,3564,51310%
Registered Nurses45,15549,6374,48210%
Construction Laborers44,76749,1204,35310%
Substitute Teachers40,31844,3754,05610%
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners40,81344,8073,99410%
Customer Service Representatives91,74695,4753,7294%
Software Developers, Applications20,90224,1503,24816%

About Emsi

Founded in 2001, Emsi is a labor market analytics firm that uses data to improve economic prosperity by connecting people, education and work in communities across the U.S. and internationally. Emsi works with professionals in higher education, economic development, workforce development, talent acquisition and site selection. Headquartered in Moscow, Idaho, with offices in the U.K. and Dallas, Emsi serves clients across the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia. Learn more at www.economicmodeling.com.

About TrueBlue

TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) is a global leader in specialized workforce solutions that help clients achieve business growth and improve productivity. In 2018, the company connected approximately 730,000 people with work. TrueBlue’s PeopleReady segment offers on-demand industrial staffing services, PeopleManagement offers contingent and productivity-based, on-site industrial staffing and driver staffing services, and PeopleScout offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and managed service provider (MSP) solutions to a wide variety of industries. Learn more at www.trueblue.com.

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