About the ASA Employment and Sales Survey
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. ASA invites all U.S. staffing firms to participate. There are no fees, and those who complete the survey receive and exclusive report on the results, which includes payroll data available nowhere else.
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Staffing Employment Shows Steady Growth in Third Quarter
Results of Third Quarter Employment and Sales Survey

Staffing employment increased 2.4% from the second to the third quarter of this year, according to data released today by the American Staffing Association.

U.S. staffing firms employed an average of 2.82 million temporary and contract workers per day from July through September—5.2% more workers than in the third quarter of 2010. This is the seventh consecutive quarter of year-to-year staffing employment growth since the industry began its recovery from the 2007–09 recession.

Temporary and contract staffing sales also showed solid gains in the third quarter, totaling $25.2 billion, an increase of 4.2% over what was reported for the second quarter of this year. In a year-to-year comparison, sales in the third quarter were 9.0% higher than during the same period in 2010.

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.

This survey is conducted by ASA research partner Inavero.

Contact
Alexandra Karaer
Director of Research
703-253-2048
akaraer@americanstaffing.net