Desperate employers are offering sign-on bonuses as they hunt for truck drivers, plumbers and nurses.
The winter COVID-19 spike and recent interest rate rises are making people nervous about switching jobs, prompting desperate employers to offer extra inducements such as sign-on bonuses.
Seek surveys users about whether COVID-19 has made them more hesitant to change jobs. The proportion answering “yes” jumped to 20 per cent during the omicron wave in January, before falling to 8 per cent in May. But it jumped back up last month as the winter COVID-19 outbreak grew. More than 80 per cent of employers keep the salary on offer secret, to avoid a wage outbreak among current employees, but salary ranges remain key to winning new staff.
Seek senior economist Matt Cowgill said: “We entered 2022 with a lot of ads, and for the first five months each month set a new all-time record. There was a slight decline in June but still higher than anything we have ever seen pre-pandemic.”Mr Cowgill said wages were starting to pick up, which was shown most clearly with non-farm average hourly earnings.
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