Employments February 2025
Small changes in the labour market in February 2025
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2025-04-29 8.00
The number of ongoing employments has continued to decrease. In February 2025, the decrease was 0.4 percent compared to the same month the previous year. During the same period, worked time decreased by 3.2 percent, amounting to 639 million hours. The proportion of sickness was 2.6 percent. The total gross pay was 193 000 millions SEK.
Ongoing employments continues to decrease
The number of ongoing employments decreased in February 2025 by 0.4 percent compared to the same period the previous year, amounting to 5 279 000.
Distributed by gender, 2 589 000 of the employments were held by women and 2 690 000 by men.
The number of employments lasting more than six month was 4 192 000 and the number of employments lasting six month or less was 1 087 000.
Percentage change compared to the same month in the previous year
Worked time
The total number of hours worked in amounted to 639 million, which is a decrease of 3.2 percent compared to the same period the previous year.
Ongoing employments, length of employment and flow in employments
| February 2025 | Change compared to the same period the previous year | Proportion of ongoing employments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Number | (%) | (%) | |
| Ongoing employments | 5 279 000 | -19 000 | -0,4 | 100,0 |
| Women | 2 589 000 | -5 000 | -0,2 | 49,0 |
| Men | 2 690 000 | -14 000 | -0,5 | 51,0 |
| Length of employments > 6 months | 4 192 000 | -2 000 | -0,1 | 79,4 |
| Women | 2 032 000 | 10 000 | 0,5 | 38,5 |
| Men | 2 160 000 | -13 000 | -0,6 | 40,9 |
| Length of employments <= 6 months | 1 087 000 | -17 000 | -1,5 | 20,6 |
| Women | 557 000 | -15 000 | -2,7 | 10,6 |
| Men | 530 000 | -2 000 | -0,3 | 10,0 |
| Started employments | 118 000 | 0 | 0,0 | 2,2 |
| Women | 53 000 | -1 000 | -0,9 | 1,0 |
| Men | 65 000 | 0 | 0,7 | 1,2 |
| Terminated employments | 182 000 | -10 000 | -5,1 | .. |
| Women | 80 000 | -5 000 | -5,8 | .. |
| Men | 103 000 | -5 000 | -4,5 | .. |
Worked time, gross pay, payroll taxes and preliminary tax
| February 2025 | Change compared to the same period the previous year | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Number | (%) | |
| Worked time | 639 000 | -21 000 | -3,2 |
| Business sector | 440 000 | -13 000 | -2,9 |
| General government sector | 184 000 | -8 000 | -4,2 |
| Gross pay | 193 000 | 6 000 | 3,2 |
| Payroll taxes | 62 000 | 3 000 | 5,3 |
| Preliminary tax | 52 000 | 1 000 | 1,4 |
Sickness absence
| February 2025 | Change compared to the same period the previous year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion of sickness absence | Number of compensations days per employment | Number of ongoing sickperiods per employmnet | Proportion of sickness absence | Number of compensations days per employment | Number of ongoing sickperiods per employmnet | |
| Total | 2,6 | 0,52 | 0,17 | 0,2 | 6,0 | 0,7 |
| Women | 3,0 | 0,60 | 0,20 | 0,3 | 7,2 | 2,3 |
| Men | 2,2 | 0,45 | 0,14 | 0,2 | 4,7 | -1,0 |
| Buisness sector | 2,3 | 0,46 | 0,15 | 0,2 | 4,4 | -0,8 |
| Central government | 2,1 | 0,42 | 0,13 | 0,3 | 15,2 | 6,6 |
| Regions | 3,3 | 0,66 | 0,22 | 0,3 | 4,7 | 0,2 |
| Municipalities | 3,8 | 0,77 | 0,25 | 0,4 | 7,7 | 2,8 |
| Non-profit institutions serving households | 1,9 | 0,37 | 0,11 | 0,3 | 13,4 | 3,6 |
Definitions and explanations
Employments (ANST) consists of two parts. One part is register-based and is based on employer declarations at the individual level (PAYE) collected by the Swedish Tax Agency. The second part consists of the Sickness Absence during the Sick Pay Period (SuS), a sample survey where Statistics Sweden collects the data from employers.
The purpose of the register-based part is to depict the state of the labour market and its development over time. The statistics are used, among other things, for economic forecasts and are part of the European Union's labour market statistics.
The variable worked time is not entirely register-based; instead, it is derived from a model.
The purpose of SuS is to highlight sickness absence during the sick pay period, which is the first 14 days of sickness absence funded by the employer. The statistics are used for forecasts, analyses, and decision-making.
Comments
Flow in employments are reported according to the flows of new employments, resumed employments, interrupted employments and re-interrupted employment.