- It represents a year-on-year growth of 3.92% and an increase of 1.44% compared to the month of August
- The global number of contributors in the Community of Madrid reaches 3,927,854 people
- The country as a whole exceeded 22.4 million on average in September and year-on-year growth accelerated to 3.41%
Social Security registered in the Community of Madrid 3,927,854 contributors in the month of September, according to data published today by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. These figures represent an increase in contributors of 1.44% compared to the month of August, with 55,861 more contributors.
In the year-on-year comparison, the region has 148,072 affiliates in the last year, 3.92% more than in September 2025. We saw an increase in affiliation that stood at 0.45%, adding 17,187 contributors since January of this year. Of all the members of the Social Security in the Community of Madrid, 3,476,680 fall within the General Regime, 447,412 are autonomous and 3,762 are registered in the Regime of the Sea. Likewise, 2,307 belong to the agricultural sector and 103,704 to household services.
New record of affiliates
In the country as a whole, Social Security membership saw an increase of 92,327 employed on average compared to August (+0.41%), the largest increase in a month of September since there are records. In the last year, the increase was of 739,888 affiliates in the original series, with a year-on-year rate of 3.41%. If seasonality and the calendar effect are discounted, the labor market added 108,832 participants, reaching a total of 22,480,796. Thus, 68 consecutive months of increments are accumulated and the highest level of the series is achieved.
The behavior of the affiliation of foreigners was especially dynamic and they are more than 16.2% of the total of affiliates in Spain. In average terms, Social Security exceeded for the first time the 3.6 million workers from other countries, in particular 3,635,979, 84,220 more than in August and 547,637 more than a year ago.
High for the regularization process
If a photograph of the labor market is made on September 30, the number of foreign affiliates regularized in discharge by the extraordinary process amounted to 421,306, which is 83,389 more than the last day of the month of August. By country of origin, Colombia (118,485), followed by Venezuela (71,999), has the highest number of registered members from the regularization process. These two countries accounted for almost half of the total as of September 31. Of these 421,306, 77.4% (326,256) were covered by the General Social Security System, while 22,681 (5.4%) were self-employed (excluding SETA). In addition, by sex, 60.2% were men (253,490) and 39.8% were women (167,815). In the case of the Community of Madrid, the registered members from the regularization process were 80,530, 19.1% of the total.
More than 3.48 million self-employed
In total, by sector, the activity that grew the most in the last year, if you add the members of the General Social Security System and the Special System of Self-Employed Workers, was Construction (+6.9%). This was followed by: Real Estate Activities (+5.9%), Artistic, Sports and Entertainment Activities (+5.3%) and Editing, Broadcasting and Content Production and Distribution Activities (+4.6%). In comparison with August, Education increased especially, with 63,499 more affiliates (+5.2% intermonthly variation). In the case of the General Social Security System, the average membership showed a year-on-year growth of 3.67% (668,945). This percentage was largely exceeded in sectors such as Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Fisheries (+8.6%), Construction (+8.1%), and Artistic, Sports and Entertainment Activities (+5.2%), among others.
For its part, the affiliation to the Special Regime of Self-Employed Workers experienced a year-on-year increase of almost 2.1%, where the greatest increases were recorded in: Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply (+15.6%), Telecommunications, Computer Programming, Consulting and Computer Infrastructure (+14.3%), Real Estate Activities (+9%) and Editing, Broadcasting and Content Production and Distribution Activities (+8.4%).
Overall, the number of self-employed workers amounts to 3,483,645, which is 70,353 more than a year ago and 229,975 more than in September 2018.
Nearly 1.9 million women affiliated more than in 2018
Women’s employment exceeded 10.5 million jobs this month (10,580,201). There are 345,574 more workers than a year ago and 1,881,872 more than in 2018. The improvement in female employment since 2018 is 21.6%, while that of men is 16.7%. Affiliated women account for 47.2% of the total, a percentage point higher than in 2018. Its presence in the labor market grows at a year-on-year rate of 3.38%. At the same time, employment in men also experiences a maximum, with 11,857,352 affiliates, after adding 394,314 in the last year and almost 1.7 million since 2018.
By age, when analyzing the evolution of employment in the last eight years, there is a greater growth of the group of children under 30 and of workers aged 55 and over. So much so that the occupation of the youngest has grown by 34.1% since 2021; while that of the elderly has grown by 29.2%. This amounts to 19.2 pp and 14.3 pp, respectively, above the total, which stands at 14.9%.
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