Brazil creates 324.1 thousand formal jobs in November -Caged

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In Brazil, 324,112 jobs were created this November, resulting from 1,772,766 hires and 1,448,654 terminations of employment with signed portfolios. In 2021, the positive balance is 2,992,898 new workers in the formal market.

The data come from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, which today (23) released the monthly statistics of formal employment, the New Caged.

The stock of formal jobs in the country, i.e. the total number of active employment contracts, reached 41,551,993 in November, up 0.79% from the previous month.

According to the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Onyx Lorenzoni, this is the third-best month of the year in terms of formal job creation, behind February with 389,679 jobs created and August with 375,284 new jobs.

“This is the result of a great effort by society and the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, which has maintained an important fiscal discipline, which has maintained a process of simplification, de-bureaucratization, digitization of government, review of regulatory standards, simplification and compression of unlawful labor laws.

All this with the aim of simplifying, facilitating, and allowing Brazilian companies, Brazilian employers, to work every day in peace and create the conditions for their businesses to flourish,” he said at a virtual press conference.

DATA BY SECTOR

Last month, the employment balance was positive in four of the five groups of economic sectors: services, with the creation of 180,960 jobs, mainly distributed among information, communication and finance, real estate, professional and administrative; trade, with a positive balance of 139,287 jobs; construction, with more than 12,485 new jobs created; and general industry, which created 8,177 new jobs, concentrated in the processing industry.

Within the services sector, Minister Onyx also highlighted the creation of vacancies in the accommodation and hospitality group, with 36,416 new jobs, which he said shows the expansion of Brazilian domestic tourism. “It is the importance we have in the tourism and services sector to increase employability in Brazil,” he said.

He also recalled that the trade sector has a significant share in job creation at this time of year, being the second largest sector with formal growth.

The agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture sector shed 16,797 jobs in November due to seasonal harvests.

Regional differences
All regions of the country showed positive job creation, with formal jobs increasing in all 27 states.

In relative terms, the states with the largest change in job creation compared to the previous month were Amapá, with 971 new jobs (+1.39%), Rio de Janeiro, with 35,654 new jobs (+1.1%), and Espírito Santo, with a positive balance of 8,535 jobs (+1.1%).

The states with the least relative variation in employment in November compared to October were Mato Grosso do Sul, where 2,206 jobs were created, an increase of 0.39%; Mato Grosso, with a positive balance of 2,600 jobs, an increase of 0.33%; and Goiás, where 4,335 formal jobs were created at the end of the month, an increase of 0.32%.

In absolute terms, the Brazilian states with the best record in November were São Paulo, with 110,198 jobs created (0.86%), Rio de Janeiro, with 35,654 jobs created (1.10%), and Minas Gerais, with the creation of 24,035 jobs (0.55%).

The states with the lowest absolute balance were Acre, with 978 new jobs (1.09%), Amapá, with 971 new jobs (1.39%), and Roraima, with 413 new jobs (0.67%).

Across the country, the average salary for registration in November 2021 was R$1,778.84. Compared to the previous month, the average entry salary decreased by R$31.70, a negative change of 1.75%.