- The region recorded an inter-monthly increase of 1.12% in June, incorporating 7,569 affiliates on average to the system.
- The Community of Madrid accounts for 19.47% of the total number of foreign workers affiliated in Spain.
- The affiliates enrolled in the Domestic Employees System in Madrid continue to have a female profile, with 95.5% of the affiliates.
- In the country as a whole, Social Security records a new maximum with 3,446,178 foreign affiliates, after an increase of more than 86,178 in the last month.
The Social Security has registered in the Community of Madrid 670,298 foreign affiliates on average in June, after adding 49,329 more jobs in the last 12 months, which means an increase of 8.89%. In month-on-month terms, growth was 1.82% compared to May, with 12,000 more affiliates on average. At the end of the month, the number of foreign affiliates was 614,000.
Of the total, 53.02% (355,422) are men, while 46.97% (314,874) are women. As for the countries of origin, the distribution resembles the national panorama with 28.83% (193,271) coming from countries of the European Union, while 70.21% (477,027) come from outside the European Union.
By contribution system, 79.85% (535,286) contribute to the General Social Security System. The most representative sectors in this group are Hospitality with 92,018 affiliates (13.72%) which continues to increase by 1 point compared to the previous month; Retail and wholesale trade concentrated in 91,701 (13.94%); Administrative activities 78,992 (12%); Construction 76,965 (11.48%) and Transport and storage 45,583 (7%). With regard to the Domestic Workers System, the number of foreign workers in the region exceeds 53,100 (9.2 per cent), of whom the majority are women (52,596), i.e. 95.5 per cent.
In the case of the SEH (Home) there has been a gradual increase of affiliates. In year-on-year terms, 6,220 new workers have been registered in this sector, representing 12.7%. In June, 2.31% more employees joined this system (1,246).
The majority of these affiliates are women and from outside the European Union. Of the total number of foreign women who are affiliated to some system, 16.7% work in the home system and 13.7% are from outside the union.
For its part, the number of foreign self-employed affiliates in the region stood in June at 81,481 workers, with 486 new affiliates in a single month.
The Community of Madrid accounts for 19.47% of the total number of foreign workers affiliated in Spain, while 17.25% of those affiliated in Madrid are foreigners.
New record of foreign affiliates
Social Security has once again registered a maximum level of foreign affiliates both in terms of average and seasonally adjusted membership. Specifically, there are 3,446,178 affiliates on average in June, which means 86,630 more people than in the previous month and 350,163 more than a year ago. This figure puts the year-on-year variation at 11.31%, when the membership as a whole has grown by 2.8%.
If the seasonality and the effect of the calendar are discounted, Social Security already has 3,329,979 foreign affiliates, after adding 330,754 in the last twelve months.
Overall, the number of foreign affiliates has totaled more than 980,000 employed since June 2022. In fact, 44.5% of the employment created since the implementation of the labor reform corresponds to foreign workers.
Although the affiliation of foreign workers to Social Security shows great dynamism in the first half of the year, the rate of increase has been accelerating since the end of April, when the process of regularization of foreign persons was launched.
As of June 30, there were already 159,097 Social Security members as a result of the regularization process, the vast majority, 83.4%, in the General Social Security System. In addition, the indefinite contract is the modality that predominates among the new highs (77.3%).
By type of activity, these new highs that occur within the framework of regularization are concentrated in: Hotel Management (38,776), Commerce (20,195), Administrative Activities (19,327) and Construction (18,310).
Average affiliation
Of the 3,446,178 foreign affiliates, about 2 million are men (1,965,796), while the number of women is close to 1.5 million (1,480,382). The presence of working women from other countries is increasing overall and represents 43% of the total number of foreign workers.
28.5% 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 422,000 contributors (422,347). It is followed by Romania (353,974), Colombia (316,460), Venezuela (239,892), Italy (223,500), China (133,098), Peru (122,633) and Ukraine (84,020).
Sectors of employed persons
Although they account for 15.4 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 31.5% of the members; in Agriculture, 28.9%; in Construction, they represent 25.9%; in Administrative Activities, 18.6% and in Transport, 18.2%. In addition, in the Special Household System, they account for 45.5% and in the Agrarian System, 41.7%.
In addition, it is necessary to highlight the high percentage of foreign workers with indefinite contracts, 87.8% of the total. If we compare it with the average percentage of the period 2017-2021, prior to the labor reform (41.1%) the data is even more striking. In parallel, the temporary rate of this group of workers falls to historical lows, falling to 12.2% while the percentage of national affiliates with temporary contracts is 12.3%.