He public employment has grown by 27.9% in the last 20 years, almost 10 percentage points more than the private sector, and now there are almost 774,000 more people working in the different administrations, of which 38.17% corresponds to only two communities: Community Valencian and Catalonia.
According to data from the labor force survey (EPA) published this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), corresponding to the third quarter of this year, only in Asturias (-8.1%) and Melilla (-23.2%) are there now fewer people working for administration than in 2004.
Furthermore, only in those two territories and in Madrid, the Canary Islands, Andalusia and Ceuta has the private employment than the public, while in La Rioja the difference is 61.35 percentage points more in favor of the administrations, in the Valencian Community it is 57.51 points and in the Balearic Islands it is 48.90 points.
It grows in almost all of Spain
Of the 773,900 more employees working in public administrations in Spain compared to the first quarter of 2004, 154,900 correspond to the Valencian Community, 140,500 to Catalonia, 92,900 to Andalusia and 61,800 to Madrid.
According to the latest EPA, there are currently 3,551,000 people in Spain working for the administration at its different levels, and more than half do so in the four communities with more inhabitants: 626,300 in Andalusia, 518,000 in Madrid, 494,900 in Catalonia and 375,500 in the Valencian Community. However, these are not the communities with the greatest weight of the public sector in overall employment and, in fact, Catalonia and Madrid are the ones with the lowest figure, 13.1 and 15.2%, respectively.
At the top of that classification are Estremadurawhere more than a quarter of the workers (26.3%) exercise their function in the administration, and Castilla y León, where they are more than a fifth (21.1%), although both are below the two autonomous cities, in which 39.6% in Ceuta and 32.2% in Melilla are public employees.
20 years agowhen there were 2,777,100 administration workers, but also about 3.5 million fewer people working throughout the country, the situation was similar, although then in Melilla more than half of the population worked for the administration (51 .1%) and in Ceuta almost one in four (39.7%).
Since then, the weight of the public sector As a whole, employment has increased by more than five points in La Rioja (5.4), more than four in the Valencian Community (4.9) and Cantabria (4.0) and more than three in the Balearic Islands (3.9). , Basque Country (3.5) and Navarra (3.3).
More public than private employment
In absolute figures, although the private sector currently offers 2.7 million more jobs than in 2004 in the State as a whole, in three communities more jobs have been created in the public sector than in companies: 22,600 in Basque Country3,600 in Castilla y León and around a hundred in La Rioja.
On the contrary, in Madrid In those 20 years, the private sector has generated ten times more employment than the public sector, 620,800 compared to 61,800, with a net balance of 559,000 jobs in favor of companies with respect to state, regional and local administrations.
A balance that in the case of Andalusia is 448,500 more jobs in the private sector than in the public sector (5.8 times more), in Catalonia 397,600 (3.8 times more), in the Canary Islands 172,800 (7.7 times more) and in Castilla- La Mancha 76,400 (2.7 times more).
