Demographics

Staffing: Big and Growing

Behind the Numbers

• Averaging $80 billion a year in sales over the last three years, the U.S. staffing industry is bigger than the U.S. motion picture industry.
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment services (which is mostly staffing) will be among the top 10 industries with the largest growth in 10 years, adding more than 600,000 new jobs.
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that jobs in employment services will grow nearly twice as fast as overall employment—19% from 2008 to 2018, compared with 11% for all industries combined.

Staffing World Demographics

• Ninety percent said they would likely exhibit again in the future—up from 77% in 2009.
• Eighty percent would recommend exhibiting to others—up from 62% in 2009.
• They keep coming back: 78% exhibited before, including 51% that exhibited six times or more.

• Sixty percent have been in the staffing industry at least 10 years—only 8% have been in the industry less than three years.
• Ninety-eight percent visited the expo hall at least three times—threefourths made five or more visits.
• Forty-three percent make final purchasing decisions, and 50% influence their firms' purchasing decisions.