Official job creation adds up to 83,300 in January, almost half the same month last year | Economy

The Brazilian economy created 83,300 official jobs in January this year, according to the Ministry of Labor and Employment on Thursday (9).

The result represents a deterioration compared to January last year, when 167.3 thousand official jobs were created. The decrease in this comparison was 50.2%.

Thus, official job creation was about half of what was recorded in the same month in 2022.

In all, according to the federal government, in January of this year the following were recorded:

And he announced that “in January, despite all these ‘shortcomings’, we have a positive balance in official posts.”

In January 2020 and 2021, respectively, 112 thousand vacancies and 254.2 thousand official jobs were created.

And so this was the worst January result from New Prisoner taking into account the methodological changes.

Standardized figures for January 2023 show that formal jobs were created in four of the five sectors of the economy.

The data also reveals that vacancies were opened in three of the country’s five regions last month.

The government also reported that the average admission salary was R$2,012.78 in January this year, which is a real increase (minus inflation) compared to December last year (R$1,923.97).

Compared to January 2022, however, there has been a decrease in the average admissions salary. In that month, the value was R$2,021.49.

The data taken from the public register of employees and the unemployed are considered workers with an official contract, that is, they do not include informal workers.

As a result, the results cannot be compared to the unemployment figures released by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which were collected through the continuation of the National Household Sample Survey (Pnad).

Arched figures are collected from firms and cover the formally held private sector, while Pnad data is obtained through household surveys and also covers the informal sector of the economy.