By WisBusiness Staff
A new employment outlook survey finds Wisconsin employers planning to follow national hiring trends in the last three months of this year.
Milwaukee-based Manpower surveys more than 28,000 U.S. employers to ask about hiring plans. Nationally, 12 percent expect to increase their staff levels while 14 percent expect to reduce payrolls. Sixty-nine percent expect no change in hiring.
Here are the 4th quarter results for state metro areas singled out by Manpower (click the city names for full results):
- Appleton: 13% of the companies interviewed plan to hire more employees, while 12% expect to reduce their payrolls. Another 75% expect to maintain their current staff levels. Job prospects appear best in nondurable goods manufacturing, wholesale & retail trade, financial activities, leisure & hospitality and other services.
- Green Bay: 12% of the companies interviewed plan to hire more employees, while 14% expect to reduce their payrolls. Another 69% expect to maintain their current staff levels and 5% are not certain of their hiring plans. Job prospects appear best in wholesale & retail trade, professional & business services, education & health services and other services.
- Madison: 11% of the companies interviewed plan to hire more employees, while 11% expect to reduce their payrolls. Another 71% expect to maintain their current staff levels and 7% are not certain of their hiring plans. Job prospects appear best in durable goods manufacturing, wholesale & retail trade, professional & business services and leisure & hospitality.
- Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis: 16% of the companies interviewed plan to hire more employees, while 14% expect to reduce their payrolls. Another 67% expect to maintain their current staff levels and 3% are not certain of their hiring plans. Job prospects appear best in Wholesale & Retail Trade, Financial Activities, Professional & Business Services and Education & Health Services.
