Employers are looking to teens to fill labor gaps this summer — and they are willing to pay well., predicts teens will make up one in five hires this summer. And many of these teens can command higher wages, even as overall wage growth stalls.
Teens in typical summer jobs like lifeguards, camp counselors, waiters, and retail workers should see raises this year. They can expect, on average, 9% higher wages than last year, Gusto found. The national average teen wage is expected to be $14.89 per hour. "We have a widespread labor shortage in the American economy, and that's pushing up wages, especially teen wages," said Paul Harrington, an economist at Rhode Island College and one of the authors of its
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