--- description: A swelling proportion of workers say their companies are hiring, not firing title: U.S. Workers See Surge of New Jobs, Poll Finds image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f25dba48cb5dd0f/69869623adae440645543894/172155434.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Economy](/tag/economy/) ## Economy Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # U.S. Workers See a Surge of New Hires, Poll Finds  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2014 3:09 PM CUT  help wanted sign help wanted signLauri Wiberg—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 4, 2014 3:09 PM CUT Job creation in the United States has hit a six-year high according to a new [survey](http://www.gallup.com/poll/170831/job-creation-index-hits-new-high.aspx "undefined") out Wednesday. The Gallup [job creation survey](http://www.gallup.com/poll/170831/job-creation-index-hits-new-high.aspx?utm%5Fsource=alert&utm%5Fmedium=email&utm%5Fcampaign=syndication&utm%5Fcontent=morelink&utm%5Fterm=Economy "undefined") asks workers if they’ve witnessed more hiring or firing at their workplaces to create an index score that rises and falls with the eyewitness accounts of the nation’s workforce. In May, the workers reported a happy scene: 40% saw hiring, dwarfing the 13% who saw firing. That brought the index to 27, its highest level in six years. The encouraging news was reinforced by another measure of job growth. TrimTabs Investment Research said the U.S. economy added 229,000 jobs in May, following solid gains in March and April. “Employment growth has exceeded 200,000 jobs for three consecutive months for the first time since the spring of 2011,” said David Santschi, Chief Executive Officer of TrimTabs Investment Research. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2821950/u-s-workers-see-a-surge-of-new-hires-poll-finds/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2821950/u-s-workers-see-a-surge-of-new-hires-poll-finds/"},"headline":"U.S. Workers See a Surge of New Hires, Poll Finds","datePublished":"2014-06-04T15:09:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:12:27.243Z","description":"A swelling proportion of workers say their companies are hiring, not firing","url":"https://time.com/2821950/u-s-workers-see-a-surge-of-new-hires-poll-finds/","keywords":["Economy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f25dba48cb5dd0f/69869623adae440645543894/172155434.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Kedmey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3f25dba48cb5dd0f/69869623adae440645543894/172155434.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"172155434","caption":"172155434","creditText":"Lauri Wiberg—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/economy/","name":"Economy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2821950/u-s-workers-see-a-surge-of-new-hires-poll-finds/","name":"U.S. Workers See a Surge of New Hires, Poll Finds"}}]}] ```