this labor cost average per worker and month (including salaries and social contributions) increased by 3.8 percent in the second quarter of the year For the same period of 2021, until reached 2,871.64 €reported this Friday the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
This increase in labor cost, chained up six consecutive quartersIt is a result of the increase in the number of hours worked due to the decrease in the number of unemployed hours due to holidays and the decrease in the number of times that cannot be worked especially due to technical, economic, organizational and production reasons and/or force majeure (ERTE). ). In this sense, INE remembers that ERTEs were abolished and other methods were activated in the second quarter due to Covid-19.
Increasing labor costs of companies It slowed by nine-tenths in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, where it increased by 4.7%.
labor cost Consists of salary cost and other costs. In the second quarter, wages (all wages both in cash and in kind) grew by 4.3% year-on-year gross to an average of €2,153.88 per worker and month, the highest figure in the second quarter. The beginning of the series is in 2000.
For events, most hostel led wage growth in the second quarter, It reached 1,242.84 euros per worker per month, up 40.3% year on year, the highest figure since the fourth quarter of 2008.
INE also reported that there were 145,053 job postings in the second quarter of the year, understanding a job vacancy as a newly created job or a job that is not occupied or is about to be vacated and the employer is taking active measures to do so. Find an external candidate.
94.1% of companies asked by the statistics said they had no vacancies to fill between April and June. because they did not need additional workers.