Public employment increases its weight in the labor market compared to private companies

There are more and more people working in all kinds of administrative entities, and at the same time, Increase at a faster rate than other workerswhich is one of the keys that still explains the inertia with which Spain moves despite completing the high tourism season and leaving 14,358 members in November.

This left last month 3,143,889 workers between the state, autonomous regions and city councils. There are 91,500 more than last year, representing growth of more than 3%. It is one of the pillars of employment, which has grown by just over half a million workers in the past 12 months. That is, one in five new members comes from public entities, whether organizations, entities or any type of public administrative division. The rest of the new members come from the company, which supports four out of every five new jobs in Just over 500,000 were created Last year.

The growth of the public workforce has been continuous since the economic “shock” caused by the pandemic. Between the end of 2020 and 2025, there was 416,842 additional members in all departmentsAn increase of more than 15.3% during that period. This is the same percentage by which employment as a whole increased (from 19 to nearly 22 million workers). In recent months in particular, the momentum of the public sector has been notable More powerfully in increments of more than 3%. This compares to the company’s low employee growth, which barely exceeded 2% in some months.

Of all the institutions that serve as employees, it is the state that has strengthened this role the most in the past year. Templates Central administration It increased at a rate of more than 4%, twice the growth rate of the economy as a whole. The state already has 480,753 workers, about 21,000 more than there were twelve months ago. For their part, Autonomous communities They have 1.9 million registered employees after growing 3% since last year. And in City halls There are 752,000 workers, up 1.9% in the period.

The weight of public sector workers is placed in an environment 14.3% of Social Security memberspractically three-tenths more than it was five years ago. Most of them remain civil servants, holding positions through the opposition. But, at the same time, the department happens to have the highest rate of temporary employment in Spain, with a Probability greater than 25% of its employees, compared to just over 10% of the rest of the companies, which have put an end to this type of employment practices.

These numbers reinforce the stagnation in which the Spanish labor market is moving despite the arrival of November. On this occasion, 14,358 jobs were lost. The labor market is still unable to remove one of the constraints that has always plagued it: dependence on associated activities Restoration and tourism. This month alone, 116,662 citizens stopped working in the hospitality sector. This reduction has eliminated any sign of improvement in other activities such as trade, with 23,905 additional jobs, thanks to the start of the business plan. Christmas and Black Friday. Despite these data. CEO alert Low productivity due to absence from work and poor management of work permits.

For his part, the number of unemployed citizens decreased by 18,805 citizens within one month. Regarding data from last year, Registered unemployment At SEPE it fell by 161,057 workers, to 2,424,961, the lowest figure for the month since 2007.