Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks announced in a recent press release that they believe small business employment is rebounding.

Small businesses are showing signs of an economic rebound. This is the main finding of the just-released Intuit Small Business Employment Index, a new, monthly report that provides unique, near real-time insight into employment trends of the smallest of small businesses.

via Intuit Press Release – Small Business Employment Showing Signs of Rebounding.

This is good news for many of the nations unemployed as they seek new jobs.

However, the Intuit index indicated hourly compensation has been mostly of the past several months and has actually declined recently.

About the Index

The Intuit Small Business Employment Index is based on online data from approximately 50,000 small business employers with fewer than 20 employees who use Intuit Online Payroll. Intuit reports data for three categories: small business employment, compensation and hours worked. Intuit will analyze and publish the data at the beginning of each month.

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