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A Snapshot of Automotive Manufacturing Labor in America

Automakers aren’t waiting on the labor market to sort itself out. They’re staffing around it.

We surveyed 128 executives at U.S. manufacturers with $100MM or more in revenue and at least 100 employees to find out how. Eight in ten use semi-skilled short-term labor, 73% bring in specialized workers, and among those hiring specialized labor, 83% call it extremely or very important to strategy. Nearly half have gone outside for extra people four or more times in the past two to three years, and 72% expect to lean on a vendor for specialized temporary labor going forward. Half are covering shortages that have no end date, which is the finding worth sitting with.

Download “A Snapshot of Automotive Manufacturing Labor in America” for the full survey results, the roles proving hardest to fill, and what the data says about staffing through the rest of 2026.