“Summer is one of the busiest periods for seasonal work. Additional employees are more often needed in the trade, catering, tourism, agriculture, construction, and environmental maintenance sectors. Manufacturing and logistics companies also supplement their teams due to increased activity and peak employee vacation times,” says Raimonda Tatarėlytė, a representative of CVMarket.lt, “by the way, employers start looking for seasonal workers for the summer already in spring – for example, job ads in resorts can be found as early as March or April.”
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As data collected by CVMarket.lt shows, in the first half of 2026, 25.5% more seasonal offers were posted in Lithuania compared to the same period last year, and 44% more in Latvia. In Estonia, their number decreased by 14.4%.
Application activity increased in all three countries. The most significant change was recorded in Lithuania, where applications for seasonal positions nearly doubled – 93% more active than a year ago. In Estonia, application activity increased by 34%, and in Latvia by 26%.
Trade sector jobs dominate in Lithuania and Latvia
In Lithuania, seasonal workers were most often sought in trade and customer service – representatives of these fields posted as many as 84.7% of all seasonal job ads.
The most frequently offered jobs were store employees, sales consultants, merchandise arrangement, or customer service workers. Catering accounted for 13%, manufacturing for 10.7%, transport and logistics for 5.1% of seasonal ads. It should be noted that many ads are assigned to several sectors of activity.
In Latvia, customer service and trade also led. Customer service was assigned 77.8%, and trade 69.4% of ads. Transport and logistics made up 16.7%, and manufacturing 11.1% of offers. Employers were looking for sales consultants, trade workers, order pickers, loaders, and transport workers.
In Estonia, most seasonal offers were also related to customer service – it accounted for 62.2% of ads. Trade received 45.3%, catering 24.4% of offers. Compared to Lithuania and Latvia, Estonia’s seasonal job selection was more diverse: tourism and hotel, agriculture, catering, event, and seasonal technical workers were more often sought.
Most popular are trade, sales, and service jobs
In Lithuania, seasonal sales and non-governmental organization supporter recruitment positions attracted the most attention. Such jobs were offered in various cities across the country and stood out both in the number of ad views and application activity.
Among other popular offers were sales consultant, store employee, merchandise picker, quality inspector, and landscaping worker positions.
In Latvia, the most active applications were for the part-time summer sales consultant job. Other trade, customer service, and seasonal transport positions also attracted job seekers’ attention.
In Estonia, among the most popular were summer job offers in clothing stores, seasonal customer service jobs, and assistant positions. Ads in the catering, hotel, and tourism service sectors also received much attention.
Much more flexibility offered in Estonia
No seasonal job ad was found offering remote work. However, there is much more variety in the offered workload. In Lithuania, as many as 95.5% of seasonal ads indicate that full-time work is required. In the remaining offers, candidates were allowed to choose full or part-time work.
In Latvia, full-time was offered in 80.6% of ads. Part-time was allocated 8.3% of offers, and another 11.1% of ads allowed candidates to choose: work full or part of the day.
In Estonia, full-time was offered in only 55.2% of seasonal ads. In almost three out of ten offers, the employer offered part-time work, and in another 15.7% of cases, it was possible to choose full or part-time work.
The highest seasonal pay is in Estonia
If we compare only full-time seasonal jobs with monthly pay stated before taxes, the offered amounts in Lithuania ranged from 1,185 to 2,694 euros. In Latvia, pay ranged from 900 to 1,290 euros, and in Estonia from 946 to 3,000 euros.
The highest seasonal pay was offered in Estonia. A tire technician working in summer was offered a monthly salary of 2,000 to 3,000 euros before taxes. In Lithuania, the highest pay – from 2,499 to 2,694 euros – was offered to paving quality inspectors. In Latvia, the maximum seasonal pay was 1,290 euros before taxes – that was promised to a transport worker dispatcher.
It is noteworthy that positions with the highest offered salaries were not among the application leaders in any Baltic country. Most applications were for trade, sales, customer service, and assistant jobs.
The analysis evaluated ads from CVMarket.lt, CVMarket.lv, and CVKeskus.ee, whose descriptions clearly stated the work as seasonal or intended for the summer period. Data from the first halves of 2025 and 2026 were compared.
