CNN19980606.1300.0967 NEWS CAPTION The job market is booming and employees are reaping the benefits. With the unemployment rate at a 28-year low, some companies are offering generous incentive packages to attract the best workers. Ceci Rodgers reports. Part-time workers needed. Pay -- $9 an hour. Full benefits. No nights or weekends. Sound too good to be true? Not in this job market. And not at UPS in Chicago, where such deal sweeteners are crucial to getting and keeping qualified workers. We see more and more people who want to stay at UPS not just because of the organizations reputation, but also because we offer such a good wage and benefit package. UPS is hardly the only company sweetening the pot. A booming economy and a shortage of labor is creating a windfall for workers in some surprising occupations. We're now seeing fast food restaurants even offer benefits today. I mean, this is something that was unheard of just a few years ago. That's right. Burger flippers with full benefits. In the retail sector, part-timers working as few as 24 hours a week at Marshall fields enjoy full benefits. Construction workers are also benefitting. They just negotiated a 5% wage hike in Illinois, more than the 4.3% average annual gain in hourly earnings nationwide and more than double the rate of inflation. But are wage gains getting out of hand? The Clinton administration says they're not, because companies continue to find ways to work more productively. Still, some at the federal reserve see the labor shortage preventing businesses from expanding -- a sign of overheating. And Fed watchers say the financial crisis in Asia is about the only thing preventing the central bank from raising interest rates now to cool things off. Ceci Rodgers, "CNN Financial News," Chicago.