Labor Ready to Announce First Quarter 2006 Earnings Results

Labor Ready Inc. (NYSE:LRW) will release first quarter
2006 earnings results after the market closes Wednesday, April 19,
2006. Management will discuss the results on a live conference call at
11 a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.m. Pacific Time) on Thursday, April 20.
   This call is being web cast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at
Labor Ready's Web site at www.laborready.com.

   About Labor Ready

   Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees
for manual labor, light industrial and skilled construction jobs,
operating under the brand names of Labor Ready, Workforce, Spartan
Staffing and CLP. Our customers are primarily small- to mid-sized
businesses in the transportation, warehousing, hospitality,
landscaping, construction, light manufacturing, retail, wholesale,
facilities and sanitation industries. Annually, Labor Ready serves
approximately 300,000 customers and puts more than 600,000 people to
work through our more than 885 branch locations in the United States,
Canada, and the United Kingdom. For additional information, visit
Labor Ready's website at www.laborready.com.