Overview

• Social Security affiliation rose to about 21.7 million and registered unemployment fell by 4,846 to 2,421,665, marking the lowest September level since 2007 outside the pandemic years.
• Education added roughly 64,000 jobs, counterbalancing declines in commerce and hospitality of about 45,000 and 35,000 positions, respectively.
• Employers signed 1,533,773 contracts in September, with approximately 43% classed as indefinite, including growth in fixed-discontinuous arrangements.
• Labor dynamics were uneven across regions, with notable unemployment drops in Catalonia (-5,293), Canary Islands (-4,842) and Valencia (-2,739), and increases in Andalusia (+7,116), Galicia (+3,394) and Asturias (+1,219).
• Foreign-born workers accounted for about six in ten new affiliates, while the self-employed regime added 7,581 contributors to reach roughly 3.41 million.