Regularization and return to school leave a record October for employment with 186,612 more contributors

The return to classrooms after the end of the summer holidays and the extraordinary regularization of migrants have boosted employment figures to a new all-time high in October. Social Security added 186,612 contributors last month, the highest number since records began. In this way, the country now has 22,624,165 contributors, 784,573 more than last year.

As is usual in October, the education sector was the main engine of job creation in many cases for workers with permanent-discontinuous contracts who return to the activity after the summer break. This activity contributed 171,000 new contributors in October, offsetting the negative effect of the hospitality industry after the end of the summer campaign.

With regard to unemployment, unemployment increased by 43,128 people to a total of 2,422,633 registered in the records of the State Public Employment Service (SEPE), the lowest level since October 2007, as has become usual with this indicator.

In addition, 1,491,069 work contracts were signed, of which 43.3% were indefinite, a percentage that moves in line with what has been common since the entry into force of the labor reform.