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Because staff is scarce, more and more employers use welcome bonuses to recruit applicants. Especially in simple jobs, an evaluation of the job portal Indeed shows.
It is an open secret that football stars like to be paid a generous amount of bonus money when they change employers. But also in very common professions, personnel are apparently being lured more and more frequently with switching bonuses. According to an evaluation by the job portal Indeed, the proportion of job advertisements in which a welcome bonus is promised has risen by 70 percent since the beginning of the year.
In absolute terms, such inaugural payments are still the exception and not the rule. It is noticeable, however, that the product is apparently particularly popular in occupations in which pay is below average. According to the evaluation, welcome bonuses are most common among employees in production – more than 5 percent of job advertisements in this area promise such a payment. Mechanics, forklift drivers, machine operators, geriatric nurses and construction mechanics can also take advantage of such a bonus.
Most common jobs with a welcome bonus
Job title | Job advertisements with an initial bonus |
Production workers | 5.2% |
mechanic | 4.6% |
forklift driver | 3.4% |
Machine operator | 3.2% |
Caregiver | 3.1% |
Construction mechanic | 3.1% |
Source: Indeed
A representative YouGov survey commissioned by Indeed shows that the lure can work: Two out of three respondents stated that they would change employers for a certain amount even though they were satisfied with their current job. At twelve percent, an amount of less than 5000 euros is enough to get them to switch, 20 percent only think about it at 20,000 euros or more.
Is the trend on the job market going?
The labor market has developed very well so far this year after the difficult Corona winter 2020/2021. Many companies took on employees, and the unemployment rate fell to 5.1 percent in November – 0.8 percentage points less than a year ago. The demand for skilled workers was recently even greater than before the pandemic, reported the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) in a skilled workers report last week.
However, this positive trend is now threatened by the worsening pandemic situation. The head of the Federal Employment Agency, Detlev Scheele, said on Tuesday that he was expecting increased unemployment due to the fourth wave in the coming year. In the catering and tourism sectors as well as in parts of the industry that is suffering from delivery bottlenecks, the employment agency is already observing rising short-time working numbers.
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