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Selected Quarterly Financial Data (unaudited)
Kelly Services, Inc. and Subsidiaries

  First Quarter
Second Quarter
Third Quarter
Fourth Quarter
Year
  (In thousands of dollars except per share items)
Sales of services
  1998 $959,382 $1,001,286 $1,032,875 $1,098,708 $4,092,251
  1997 880,846 959,726 1,001,209 1,011,154 3,852,935
  1996 733,931 804,262 873,242 890,868 3,302,303
Cost of services
  1998 791,472 823,542 846,094 899,868 3,360,976
  1997 724,508 789,618 824,820 832,643 3,171,589
  1996 596,245 652,007 711,950 729,321 2,689,523
Selling, general and administrative
  1998 143,069 143,584 145,404 158,602 590,659
  1997 132,219 137,636 136,464 139,263 545,582
  1996 117,302 123,778 125,101 125,647 491,828
Net earnings
  1998 15,064 20,623 24,903 24,125 84,715
  1997 14,228 19,443 23,587 23,522 80,780
  1996 12,903 17,448 21,430 21,228 73,009
Basic earnings per share(1)
  1998 .39 .54 .65 .66 2.24
  1997 .37 .51 .62 .62 2.12
  1996 .34 .46 .56 .56 1.92
Diluted earnings per share(1)
  1998 .39 .54 .65 .66 2.23
  1997 .37 .51 .62 .61 2.12
  1996 .34 .46 .56 .56 1.91
Dividends per share
  1998 .22 .23 .23 .23 .91
  1997 .21 .22 .22 .22 .87
  1996 .20 .21 .21 .21 .83

(1) Earnings per share amounts for each quarter are required to be computed independently and may not equal the amounts computed for the total year.