Jalisco reaches national leadership in formal employment

After five years, Jalisco recovered the national top in the generation of formal jobs during 2022, manufacturing being its main engine.

According to information from the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, Jalisco created 82,963 insured jobs at the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), which, in addition to being a leader in the country, even exceeded the employment figures that I had before the pandemic.

“This speaks of the very important dynamics that the entity has in the generation of employment and the confidence of employers to bet on new jobs, to continue investing and, above all, to bet on the economic development of our entity”, commented the head of the Secretariat of Economic Development (Sedeco), Roberto Arechederra Pacheco.

The employment figure generated during 2022 in Jalisco represents a growth of 19.1% compared to the 69,632 jobs created in 2021.

On a national scale, 752,748 formal jobs were created, of which Jalisco contributed 11%; that is, 11 out of every 100 jobs insured in the country’s Social Security were generated in the federal entity.

“Jalisco occupies the first national place in employment generation during 2022, generating 82,963 jobs, above Mexico City (which created 82,390 jobs), the State of Mexico (with 82,319 jobs) and Nuevo León (which generated 76,407 jobs)”, stressed the head of Sedeco.

The foregoing meant that Jalisco surpassed the three largest economies in the Mexican territory (the state is the fourth power regarding the contribution of the national GDP).

Likewise, the last time that the Jalisco entity was placed in first position was in 2017, with the registration of 93,631 new workers insured in the IMSS. It also highlights that the 82,963 jobs in Jalisco represented the best result in the last five years, exceeding pre-pandemic levels.

The State Secretary for Economic Development mentioned that with the objective of continuing to open sources of work, the General Coordination of Economic Growth and Development of the Jalisco entity will reinforce this year the accompaniment of companies that require support and will facilitate their operation through the implementation of regulatory improvement mechanisms.

the bastions

Jalisco’s first national place in the generation of formal jobs was mainly due to the state’s manufacturing sector.

The set of transformation industries created 27,486 jobs in 2022, which represented 33.1% of the state total.

It was followed by commerce with 10,658 jobs (12.8%), the construction industry with 10,799 (13.0%), and services for businesses, individuals, and the home with 18,440 (22.2 percent).

In sum, these four sectors contributed 81.2% of the total.

Jalisco stood out in the upper part of most economic sectors, particularly in primary activities, which refer to agriculture, livestock, forestry, fishing and hunting, ranking in the first national step with the generation of 2,457 formal jobs.

While it obtained the second position in the country in three sectors. The first corresponds to transformation industries (27,486 new positions), behind Coahuila (30,608).

Under construction (10,799), surpassed only by the state of Tabasco (13,148), and in social and community services (5,637), below only Nuevo León (5,637).

The Achilles heel of the Jalisco entity was the set of extractive industries, since 124 workers were discharged from Social Security last year.

Special cases

Tabasco was a special case in the Mexican labor market in the year that has just ended.

The oil state was the first in the country in the creation of insured jobs in the IMSS in the construction industry, one of the sectors hardest hit by the cut in public investment and the ravages of the pandemic.

The dynamism in construction in Tabasco, which surpassed the large state economies, came from the federal project for the Dos Bocas refinery.

In fact, this same sector reduced Mexico City, the largest economy in the national territory, with 14,781 layoffs in 2022.

Despite this, the capital of the country was in second place, since it only showed job losses in the construction industry; its pillar was the service sector for companies, individuals and the home, with 46,396 annual registrations of workers in Social Security.

Increase in minimum wage and decent vacations will affect Jalisco MSMEs

The 20% increase in minimum wages and dignified vacations, effective as of 2023, will have a “minor” impact on companies in Jalisco, businessmen and authorities agreed.

“Much has been said that there will be many workers who will benefit from this increase and the statistics show that not necessarily, and there has also been a lot of discussion about the fact that the labor costs of companies will increase and this is not necessarily true either,” he said. the director of Statistical, Economic and Financial Information of the Institute of Statistical and Geographic Information (IEEG) of Jalisco, Mireya Pasillas.

Based on the IMSS records, as of November 2022, the official clarified that the increase in minimum wages will not generate inflationary pressure since, at the national level, only 0.2% of workers (49,252 people) are registered with a salary minimum.

Meanwhile, in Jalisco, only 6,017 workers; that is to say, 0.31% of the total of those registered as of November in Social Security (1.9 million), is in the range of a minimum wage, in addition to another 16,080 registered workers (0.8%) through the voluntary regime in the modalities 30 , 35, 43 and 44, which correspond to sugar cane producers, natural persons employers with workers at their service, voluntary incorporation of the field to the mandatory regime and independent workers.

“The minimum wage does not allow you to find collaborators who want to work in the company; In Jalisco it is not a major issue because we do not compete with minimum wages,” said the president of the Guadalajara Chamber of Commerce, Raúl Uranga Lamadrid.

Decrease

Regarding the reform to the Federal Labor Law that grants workers 12 days of rest from the first year they work, the head of the Jalisco Secretariat of Economic Development (Sedeco), Roberto Arechederra, commented that the measure will mainly affect micro and small businesses (MSMEs) and family businesses that do not have staff to replace workers during their vacations.

For his part, the president in Jalisco of the National Chamber of the Clothing Industry (Canaive), Roberto Santana, anticipated that “small and medium-sized companies are going to have to pass this cost on to the final price of the merchandise because we cannot absorb it completely”.

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