- It represents a growth of over 0.35% on the May data and over 3% in the year-on-year comparison.
- Nationwide, a new record is set and exceeds 22.4 million members in the original series, after adding 128,533 in May
- Employment in Spain accelerates its rate of growth and marks its biggest year-on-year increase, 2.8%, since May 2023
Social Security registered in the Community of Madrid 3,934,223 contributors in average terms in June, according to data published today by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. These figures represent an increase of close to 0.4% compared to the May data, adding 13,956 contributors in the last month. In year-on-year terms, the increase exceeds 3%, adding 132,684 contributors.
Of the group of affiliates in the Community of Madrid, 3,483,753 belong to the General Regime, 446,629 are autonomous, 3,841 are registered in the Regime of the Sea and do not have any contributors in the Coal Regime. In addition, 2,160 are registered in the agricultural sector and 99,843 in the household services sector.
Record numbers at the national level
In the country as a whole, the number of members of Social Security achieves a new maximum in June, with 22,466,339 employed. This overcomes the barrier of the 22.4 million members, after adding 128,533 in the last month. In the first six months of the year, membership has gained 621,925 members and the year-on-year variation rate is now 2.8%, the highest rate of job creation since May 2023.
It was one of the best months of June in the historical series. Only the same period of 2005 and 2021 are better, in the midst of the de-escalation of the pandemic.
“In this way, Spain prolongs the intense dynamism of its labour market, which behaves more favourably than that of the main European economies,” explains Elma Saiz. “Since the implementation of the labor reform, there are 2.6 million more people in Spain and the temporary work has fallen to 12.3%, compared to 31.5% in June 2018,” explains the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz.
Only the last year has meant an increase of 605,244 average affiliates (+2.8%).
The behavior of the affiliation of foreigners is especially dynamic. In the original series, there are 3,446,178 average affiliates, which is 86,630 more than in May and 350,163 more than a year ago. Together, they account for 15.3% of the total.
There are 65 consecutive months of job creation
The seasonally adjusted series, in which seasonality and calendar effect are discounted, brings the figure to 22,208,553 members after adding 92,531 in the last month.
In addition, in the daily membership records, it is noted that for five days in a row, between June 15 and 19, more than 22.5 million members have been registered; never in history have there been so many workers on leave. In particular, on the 18th the highest level was recorded with 22,566,248 occupied.
“We have record levels of young people and affiliated women, as well as men, self-employed workers and foreign workers,” explains Elma Saiz. “This means that Spain continues to lead the way in creating jobs among the main economies around us. Since June 2018, there are more than 3.4 million members,” the minister continues.
Affiliation by sector of activity
The sector that has grown the most in the last year, together with the total number of members of the General System and the Special System of Self-Employed Workers, is Publishing, Broadcasting and Content Production and Distribution (7.44%). It is followed by Real Estate Activity (6%) and Construction (5.6%).
In the case of the General Social Security System, the average membership has shown a year-on-year growth of 3% (554,026 members). This percentage has been largely exceeded in sectors such as Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fisheries (+7.5%), Editorial Activities, Broadcasting and Content Production and Distribution (+7%), Construction (+6.6%), Water Supply and Sanitation (+5.4%), Artistic, Sports and Entertainment Activities (+4.8%) and Transport and Storage (+4.3%).
In the case of self-employed workers, whose total amount grew by 1.5% year-on-year, the increase in Electricity Supply, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning (+16.7%), Telecommunications, Computer Programming, Consulting and Computer Infrastructure (+12.2%), Real Estate Activities (+10.2%) and Publishing, Broadcasting and Content Production and Distribution Activities (+9.3%) is very significant.
Overall, the number of self-employed is 3,472,460, which is 12,017 more than a year ago and 198,902 more than in June 2018.
Affiliation grows more among women
It highlights the dynamism of employment among women, which continues to grow faster than that of men and already exceeds 10.6 million employees. In particular, there are 291,371 members more than a year ago and there are more than 1.8 million more women than in 2018. The improvement in female employment since 2018 is 21%, while that of men is 15.8%.
Affiliated women account for 47.3% of the total number of employed, more than a percentage point more than in 2018. Its presence in the labor market grows at a year-on-year rate of 2.8%. At the same time, employment in men also experiences a maximum, with 11,845,862 affiliates, after adding 313,873 in the last year and 1.62 million since 2018.
Record of employment in young people and over 55 years of age
When analyzing the evolution of employment in the last eight years, it is observed a greater growth of the older group, in the stretch of 55 years and over, as well as in the younger ones. The employment of the elderly has grown by 52.2%, to a total of almost 5 million, and that of workers under 30 and under, 34.2% since 2018 (there are 3.7 million), 34pp and 16pp, respectively, above the total, which stands at 18.2%.
Stability and quality in employment
Since June 2021, there has been a great transformation in the types of contracts in the labor market: there are 4,896,905 more workers with indefinite contract and 1,971,962 affiliates less with temporary contract.
There are more and more stable jobs, with more rights and better salaries. The largest increase occurs among those employed on open-ended full-time contracts, with 314,502 more than a year ago; while those affiliated with part-time contracts increase by 63,782.
The weight of temporary workers stands at 12.3%, compared to 27.9% in June 2021. This improvement is even more remarkable among workers under 30 years of age, who have a temporary rate of 20.6%, when they had a rate of 51.1% five years ago.
With respect to the youngest, workers aged 30 and under have increased by 36.2% since June 2021. They are 987,409 more, reaching a total of 3,718,547; which far exceeds the average growth rate of 15.2%.
Finally, the ratio between contributor and pensioner reaches 2.5, which is the maximum level since 2011.
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