The job achieves the best September in history after adding 92,327 affiliates in the last month and 739,888 compared to a year ago

Employment growth is accelerating in September. Social Security membership shows an increase of 92,327 employed on average compared to August (+0.41%). It is the biggest 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%.

In total, there are 22,437,553 affiliates in the original series, which means an increase of 3.57 million affiliates compared to September 2018.

If the seasonality and the calendar effect are discounted, a historical fact is also observed, since this month the labor market has added 108,832 affiliates, reaching a total of 22,480,796. Thus, 68 consecutive months of increments are already accumulated and the highest level of the series is achieved.

The Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Saiz, says: “We have surpassed the figure of more than 22.5 million members in the daily series in the middle of the month, which is a good thermometer to measure the consistency of job creation. Since the beginning of the year we have been breaking records month after month.” And he adds: “On September 28, in fact, daily registrations reached their highest level, with 22,576,593 members, there have never been so many people working in Spain.”

The behavior of the affiliation of foreigners is especially dynamic, so much so that they are already more than 16.2% of the total of affiliates in Spain. In average terms, Social Security has exceeded for the first time the 3.6 million workers from other countries, in particular 3,635,979. That’s 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, 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 account 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).

Average affiliation by sector of activity

In total, by sector, the activity that has grown 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, is Construction (+6.9%). This one is followed:Real Estate Activities (+5.9%), Artistic, Sports and Entertainment Activities (+5.3%) and Editing, Broadcasting and Content Production and Distribution Activities (+4.6%).

Compared to August, Education increased especially, with 63,499 more affiliates (+5.2% month-on-month variation).

In the case of the General Social Security System, the average affiliation has presented a year-on-year growth of 3.67% (668,945). This percentage has been widely 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.

More than 3.48 million self-employed

The affiliation to the Special Regime of Self-Employed Workers experiences a year-on-year increase of almost 2.1%, where the greatest increases are 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 has 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%. “These figures are extraordinary news, because it means that we are approaching the real equalization of the participation of men and women in the labor market,” explains Minister Elma Saiz.

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.

Employment ceilings for young people and over 55 years of age

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%.

Stability and quality in employment

Since September 2021, there has been a great transformation in the types of contracts in the labor market: there are 4,859,884 more workers with indefinite contract and 2,047,451 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 338,317 more than a year ago; while those affiliated with part-time contracts increase by 90,770.

The weight of temporary workers stands at 12.5%, compared to 28.4% in September 2021. This improvement is even more noticeable among affiliates under the age of 30, who have a temporary rate of 23.7%, when they had a rate of 54.9% five years ago.

Finally, this month has brought the ratio between contributor and pensioner to 2.51, which is the highest level since 2011.

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