Maybe you need to cover employee time off during the holidays, or maybe your business picks up at other times during the year. Either way, there are factors involved with hiring seasonal workers that can create special circumstances and unique challenges.
In the past, many businesses only offered minimum wage for seasonal employees in the hopes of investing less in employees that aren’t there for the long haul. However, today there are many companies offering higher wages for seasonal employment.
With a current unemployment rate of 3.5 percent as of September 2019, these companies believe that - in order to be competitive in terms of finding higher-quality candidates - they need to offer most they can reasonably pay for seasonal workers.