Summer Job Market for Teens Is Sweet

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Summer Job Market for Teens Is Sweet
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Businesses are counting on teenage workers to staff restaurants, resorts and other entertainment spots this summer. Teens are answering the call to work—and finding more accommodating bosses, greater schedule flexibility and even higher pay.

Businesses are counting on teenage workers to staff restaurants, golf clubs, resorts and other hot-weather entertainment spots emerging from pandemic lockdowns. Many employers are, and so to fill the gap, they are leaning on teens like never before and heavily courting them to keep businesses running in a busy summer.

For many young adults now flooding into the hot summer labor market, conditions are creating a job bonanza, complete with more accommodating bosses, greater schedule flexibility and even higher pay than in summers past. Teens are answering the call to work. In May, the share of 16- to 19-year-olds who work rose to 33.2%, the highest rate since 2008, according to

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