- The region recorded an inter-monthly increase of 2.07% in May, incorporating 13,328 members of the system.
- The Community of Madrid accounts for 19.59% of the total number of foreign workers affiliated in Spain.
- In the country as a whole, Social Security records a new maximum with 3,360,000 foreign affiliates, after an increase of more than 111,000 in the last month.
- It highlights the growing presence of foreign workers who undertake in highly qualified sectors.
The Social Security has registered in the Community of Madrid 658,293 foreign affiliates on average in May, after adding 50,710 jobs over the last 12 months, which means an increase of 8.35%. In month-on-month terms, growth was 2.07% compared to April, with 13,328 new affiliates.
Of the total, 52.63% (346,471) are men, while 47.37% (311,822) are women. As for the countries of origin, the distribution resembles the national panorama with 29.75% (194,325) coming from countries of the European Union, while 70.25% (462,436) come from outside the European Union.
By contribution system, 79.38% (577,281) contribute to the General Social Security System. The most representative sectors in this group are Hospitality (14.27%); Commerce (12.84%); Administrative activities (12.55%); Construction (10.47%) and Transportation (6.59%). With regard to the Domestic Workers System, the number of foreign workers in the region exceeds 53,100 (9.2%).
For its part, the number of foreign self-employed members in the region stood at 12.29% in May (80,881 workers). In this case, the activities with the greatest weight are Commerce (21.75%); Construction (17.77%); Transport (9.33%) and Scientific and technical activities (9.04%).
The Community of Madrid accounts for 19.78% of the total number of foreign workers affiliated in Spain.
New record of foreign affiliates
At the national level, Social Security has again registered a new maximum of foreign affiliates both in the original series, medium, and in seasonally adjusted terms. Specifically, there are 3,359,548 affiliates on average in May, which is 111,301 more occupied than in the previous month and 288,717 more than a year ago. This figure puts the year-on-year variation at 9.4%, when in the affiliation of the total it is 2.5%. If the seasonality and the effect of the calendar are discounted, Social Security already has 3,251,519 foreign affiliates, after adding 279,433 in the last 12 months.
Of the 3,360,000 foreign affiliates, 1.9 million are men, while the number of women exceeds 1.4 million for the first time. The presence of working women from other countries is increasing overall and represents 43.1% of the total number of foreign workers.
About 30% of foreign affiliates come from European Union countries.
Morocco continues to be the country with the most members of the Spanish Social Security and already exceeds 420,000 contributors (420,939). It is followed by Romania (355,087), Colombia (291,371), Venezuela (231,635), Italy (220,474), China (130,777), Peru (114,264) and Ukraine (83,049).
Sectors of employed persons
Although they account for 15 per cent of all workers, the contribution of foreign workers is particularly relevant in some sectors of the General Social Security System. In Hospitality, they represent 30.4% of the members; in Agriculture, 28.8%; in Construction, they represent 25.1%; in Transport, 17.9%; and in Administrative Activities, 18.1%. In addition, in the Special Household System, they account for 44.22% and in the Agrarian System, 42.4%.
In addition, it is necessary to highlight the high percentage of foreign workers with indefinite contracts, 88.5% of the total. If we compare it with the average percentage of the period 2017-2021, prior to the labor reform (58.9%) the data is even more striking.
In parallel, the temporary rate of this group of workers falls to historical lows, with the percentage of foreign affiliates with temporary contracts falling to 11.5%, also below that of nationals (11.8%). That percentage contrasts with the average for the period 2017-2021, which reached 41.1% of the total.
Entrepreneurship in highly qualified sectors
On the other hand, the number of self-employed workers continues to grow and stands at 519,137, which is 7.25% more than a year ago. We must point out the growing presence of foreign workers who undertake in highly qualified sectors such as Telecommunications and Computer Programming, where they already represent 32.4% of the employed registered in this section of activity, that is, they are already one in three entrepreneurs. Also very important is its representation in other activities, such as Household Activities (27%), Hospitality (25.5%), Administrative Activities (18.6%) Real Estate Activities (18.4%) and Construction (18.1%).