Cordoba beats its historic record for Social Security affiliates in October: more than 145,000

The good progress in job creation is striking when the economy continues to refuel with force. Just consult the latest report from the Unicaja research service, which expects that the GDP of the province – the capital is its engine – will increase by 1% this year – it would be the second territory of the community with the least progress and in Andalusia, the expected increase is 1.8%. According to estimates, for 2023, it would have seen an increase of 1.1%.

Well, with this development, Córdoba deserves to be marked powerful figures on employment. According to official Social Security indicators, finish last month -this is a period when the second high tourist season plays in favor of activity-, are counted in the capital 145,072 employees. This is the best number In October in all historical serieswhich started in 2003. And this is a record from last year if we analyze the same month.

This figure exceeds 3,886 affiliates to social security for registered 365 days beforeso the increase was 2.7%. Cordoba chains SO eleven years old with year-on-year increase in October of employment – even in 2020, exercise of the Covid epidemic, it reached it, although it was the smallest increase in this uninterrupted ascending cycle (+0.6%) – .

Since the financial crisis triggered in 2008 dragged the busy ones towards a drop which led them to close the tenth month of 2013 at 113 214the capital gained nearly 31,900 workers. This figure implies a year-over-year increase of 28.1%.

Another good period, during the two decades studied, was the beginning of this century. He boom economic which was experienced then increase -always analyze the tenth month of the year- affiliates to Social Security until 131,326 in 2007before the bursting of the housing bubble and the start of a long financial recession. In six dark years, our territory has lost 18,112 employees (-13.8%).

Let’s go back to what happened in the last 365 daysonce again the general diet acted as a locomotive of progress. At close the blinds October 2023, accounted for 116,995 soldiers. At the same time, in 2024, this number had increased to 120,705. In concrete figures, there are 3,710 more employed people (+3.2%).

The other major group in the labor market in the city of Córdoba, that of self-employed. According to the latest available data, there are 19,708 self-employed workers compared to 19,493 at the end of October 2023. growth is 1.1% adding 215 more.

Increase greater than in Andalusia and Spain

He agrarian regime -with a much less relevant weight than in the province as a whole- also gives a positive indicator. It goes from 2,041 members to 2,113. It therefore has 72 additional employees (+3.5%). The negative rating is given by the domestic workers system, with a decrease compared to the scenario 365 days ago of 4.2%. From 2,657 people employed, it drops to 2,546, or 111 fewer.

He increase observed in these regions It also has the advantage that exceeds to those registered in upper territorial zones. The increase in the number of employed people in Córdoba is six tenths higher than that of Andalusia and Spain (+2.1% in both cases).