The U.S. auto industry is hiring again, and top executives expect to keep right on hiring through next year.
“Essentially, the industry has a lot of new and upgraded factories, the U.S. has highly efficient, low-cost labor. They have done some clearly remarkable things,” said Gary Silberg, national automotive industry leader for KPMG LLP.
Silberg said that according to the 2012 KPMG Automotive Industry Outlook survey of 100 “C-suite” senior executives, 72 percent said their companies would continue to hire more U.S. employees in 2013 – up from 62 percent for the same question in KPMG’s 2011 survey.
The New York-based audit, tax and advisory firm released the results of the May 2012 survey last week. Respondents were U.S.-based executives for domestic and foreign-based OEMs, plus parts suppliers.