Kitchen/Bath Firms Are Hiring

Some 60.2% of NKBA member firms expect to hire new employees in the next eighteen months, and 59.8% have hired new employees in the past year and a half. That’s according to a new survey on hiring practices. Some 65.4% of companies polled have hired at least one employee to do kitchen/bath design and sales, and starting salary for that employee averaged $39,979. Average sales volume for respondents was just under $3 million. The average kitchen ticket for respondents was $41,035 and the average bath was $16,598.