We’ve come to the end of the school year. Which, for a fair number of teenagers, means working a summer job. Or at least, trying to find one. Some started searching before school ended, some are hitting the pavement now, with summer upon us. And it’s not going to be an easy one for teens who are job-searching.Outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas crunched the numbers heading into summer: “This is going to be the lowest year for summer teen hiring that the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] has recorded in 80 years,” said senior vice president Andy Challenger.As of mid-spring, companies’ overall hiring plans were down 13% from last year. They were down 70% for seasonal entertainment and leisure jobs, Challenger said. ”That’s amusement parks, beaches, ice cream shops, resorts—the types of places that typically have a big spike in demand, and need extra help during the summer,” he added.But this year, those places face soaring costs for fuel and other supplies. And they’re dependent on cash-strapped consumers, who are trying to cut back on discretionary spending in the face of soaring inflation and wages that aren’t keeping pace.On a typical weekend, Tropical Sno KC in Kansas City, Missouri, has several teens behind the counter. “I work the cashier, so just taking orders,” said 18-year-old Camaya Manese, who’s worked at the shop for four summers in a row, and is headed to college in the fall. “Now I’ve worked up to making the actual snow cones. My favorite flavor combo? I like pineapple, black cherry and pink lemonade.”Manese only works approximately six hours per week (the shop is only open weekends), making $15 an hour. So she started looking for a second job. “Trying to find it was pretty difficult,” she said. “And then I just happened to come across a sign outside a store that said ‘walk-in interviews happening now.’”Manese got the job — at a clothing store that’s selling a lot of World Cup merchandise. “Hours are kind of all over the place,” she said. “One week I’ll have five shifts, and then another it’ll just be two or three.”Cillian McManigal, 18, also works at Tropical Sno—making about $60 a week plus tips. He wants to earn more so he can help his mother pay his freshman-year college tuition in the fall. “I’ve applied for dishwashing jobs, hosts and servers, in restaurants—because they make pretty good money,” said McManigal. “I’d say like five different places. I haven’t heard anything. I’m only slightly discouraged, because I don’t think jobs are really good with getting back to teens, or people in general. But that’s not going to stop me from trying to find another job.”Same thing happened to 16-year-old Hannah Rades in Silver Spring, Maryland, when she applied to work at a local farmer’s market. “I gave out my information and I kind of got ghosted, so that was kind of disheartening,” Rades said. “Almost everyone I talk to, they’re getting ghosted by fast-food chains that have ‘Employees Wanted’ signs, actively looking for employees, but they’re not responding to us.”Rades will babysit and mow lawns, practice soccer and do two unpaid internships this summer — at a public defender’s office and the International Rescue Committee.All of which makes her part of a trend, said Andy Challenger: less work, more other stuff.“It’s not that teenagers are lazy, right?” he said. “They have extra academic work, sports activities, volunteering opportunities to build their resumes for college.”Back in the 1980s, nearly 60% of teens had summer jobs, said Challenger. Today it’s just 35%.