SurePayroll Sees Increase in Small Business Hiring in August

Small businesses with one to 10 employees saw a month-over-month increase in hiring of one-tenth of a percent this month, according to the payroll provider SurePayroll.

The increase, while small, is significant considering that SurePayroll’s monthly Small Business Scorecard has reported small business hiring as flat or down month-over-month for a year.

Year-over-year hiring is still down 0.7 percent nationwide, according to the company’s scorecard. However, optimism among small business owners is high at 70 percent. By comparison, optimism was only at 54 percent in August of 2010.