Overview

• After seasonal adjustment, Social Security shows an underlying gain of roughly 56,000 affiliates in September.
• Sector data point to education adding about 61,000 workers, enough to balance losses of roughly 44,000 in commerce and 32,000 in hospitality.
• Hiring activity strengthened with about 1.53 million contracts signed, including approximately 664,000 indefinite deals that accounted for around 43% of the total.
• Regional outcomes diverged, with unemployment down in nine communities led by Catalonia (-5,293) and the Canary Islands (-4,842), and up in eight led by Andalucía (+7,116) and Galicia (+3,394).
• Migrant workers made up an estimated six in ten of new affiliates, while self‑employment rose by 7,581 to about 3.41 million.