US employers continue to add more executive management jobs than they are cutting as the US economy continues to emerge from recession, according to ExecuNet’s latest Executive Job Creation Index data.

In May, the number of companies adding new executive roles and ‘trading up’ with new hires for existing management jobs was 28 points higher than the number actively reducing leadership head count, according to the survey of 185 executive recruiters.

May ranked as the fifth consecutive month in which executive jobs were created, following a period of significant retrenchment by US employers and a difficult period for executive staffing levels.