Help Wanted: Retailers Redouble Calls For Holiday Workers 0 As Hawaii’s economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, there’s an abundance of job openings for seasonal employees.
With the U.S. economy slouching toward a recession, the holidays hardly look happy for tens of thousands of Americans, as major tech companies like Amazon, Twitter and Facebook parent Meta have announced that they’ll be handing out pink slips instead of Thanksgiving turkeys.
But job news in Hawaii hasn’t been so dire — at least for the service-oriented sectors that play a big role in the state’s economy.
The holidays this year, in fact, might be an especially good time for people to pick up a few extra bucks with a short-term retail gig.
Total non-farm jobs in Hawaii have risen toward pre-pandemic levels and were hovering at approximately 614,700 in September compared with 659,100 in February 2020, before the pandemic started, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. That compares to a low of about 507,900.
