SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — Spokane County is offering up to $10,000 sign-on bonuses to people looking to be hired by the Spokane County Detention Services (SCDS).
According to a press release from Spokane County Spokesperson Jared Webley, county commissioners authorized the new sign-on bonuses. SCDS has numerous positions open and is inviting people to apply.
Positions include corrections officers, technical assistant and cook. Salaries range from just over $20,000 to nearly $64,000.
Corrections officers must be a high school graduate and have a minimum of two years of full-time work after high school.
Technical assistants are responsible for technical and/or clerical duties in a unit of a corrections department. Applicants should have a high school diploma and two years of full-time work.
A cook must have meal preparation skills and knowledge in operating food equipment.
According to the county, SCDS offers excellent benefit, paid time off, retirement and promotional opportunities. For more information on each position, visit the county’s hiring website.
Companies throughout the United States are advertising more jobs than they were before the pandemic, when the unemployment rate was a 50-year low of 3.5%, so they clearly want to add workers. Yet hiring stumbled in April because many employers couldn't attract as many as they needed.
Some unemployed people have also been reluctant to look for work because they fear catching COVID-19. Others have entered new occupations rather than return to their old jobs and many women, especially working mothers, have had to leave the workforce to care for children.
Cyrus O'Leary's Pies in Airway Heights and Old European on Division Street in North Spokane were offering $500 bonuses for workers.
