Overview
- Official data published Wednesday show October added 186,612 Social Security affiliates, lifting the total to 22.62 million and setting a new monthly and overall high.
- The government’s extraordinary migrant regularization has put roughly 490,586 people into formal cotización, accounting for a substantial share of the October increase.
- Registered unemployment also rose to about 2.42 million nationally, a rise that reflects both measurement effects from formalisation and short-term frictions as workers enter the system.
- Regional outcomes varied: Catalunya consolidated 4 million affiliates and reports 98,608 hires from the regularization, Madrid posted the largest monthly gain (+58,128), and the Balearic Islands lost 31,610 jobs after the tourism season.
- Sector and measurement details explain the mixed picture: education and self-employment strengthened in October while hospitality weakened, and administrative registers count newly documented workers that household surveys do not.