SurePayroll Scorecard - 2006 - September - National Small Business Trends

National Small Business Trends

The national SurePayroll Hiring Index, which measures the number of employees within small businesses, ended September at 10,439, up eight points from where the index stood at the end of August.

The hiring trend this year has been one of decreasing staff sizes, so September’s results represent a turnaround. Of the nine months year to date in 2006, only three months have had increases in hiring: January, June and September.

Small business salaries remain on the rise. The SurePayroll Pay Index clocked in at 1007 at the end of September, a six-point increase from August.

Of the nine months year to date in 2006, we have seen salaries increasing every single month.

The monthly SurePayroll Scorecard data for September 2006 can be found in the table below.

	SurePayroll Hiring Index	SurePayroll Pay Index
September '06	10,439	1,007
August '06	10,431	1,001
July '06	10,436	990
June '06	10,439	987
May '06	10,435	983
April '06	10,440	982
March '06	10,453	973
February '06	10,461	970
January '06	10,466	966
December '05	10,466	948
November '05	10,466	940
October '05	10,470	937

About the ScoreCard

The SurePayroll Hiring Index and the SurePayroll Pay Index are generated as part of SurePayroll’s Small Business Scorecard, an economic indicator that tracks the health of the U.S. small business economy. The Small Business Scorecard is generated from actual payroll data — paychecks issued to contractors and employees — for over 17,000 small businesses nationwide.

Questions regarding the SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard can be directed to Michael Alter. Michael can be reached at malter@surepayroll.com or by phone at (847) 676-8420 ext. 7229.

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