News Releases

BMO Summer Employment Survey: businesses hiring students

- Businesses are investing in their operations, including hiring employees

- Nearly seven in 10 post-secondary students are employed for the summer

- BMO Year of the Entrepreneur Series reveals only one per cent say they are "studentpreneurs"

BMO survey: students optimistic their school-related debt load will be manageable once they graduate

- 70 per cent of students have summer jobs this year

- 61 per cent of post-secondary students who have jobs believe their summer earnings will cover their day to day expenses while at school

- 59 per cent say they'll owe less than $10,000 or nothing at all when they graduate