216,538 formal jobs were created in the first eight months of 2025, and maintains its upward trend after adding a record of 1,26,025 places in July, as reported on Monday by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) on Monday.
With these data, the IMSS records a total of 23.53 million formal jobs at the end of last August, which includes the people benefiting from the digital platform reform.
Only in the eighth month, 21,750 formal jobs were created, and adds to the positive trend of the 1.26 million places created last July, when digital services were incorporated by platforms.
The IMSS stressed that the economic sectors that accumulate the greatest annual growth in formal jobs so far this year are: that of transport and communications, with an increase of 8.8% year -on -year in formal employment; followed by trade, with an increase of 2.3% and the electricity sector, with 2.3%.
For their part, most of the new jobs were recorded in the State of Mexico, Colima, Michoacán and Aguascalientes, with annual increases greater than 1.5%.
The Institute also highlighted a nominal increase of 7.4% in the average salary, which reached 630.7 pesos a day (about 33.76 dollars) in August.
This increase, the IMSS said, is “the second highest since you have registered.”
The agency also registered more than 1.03 million patterns, as employers calls, an annual reduction of 2.5%, which is explained “due to the implementation of security measures in the opening of employer records of natural persons.”
In addition, he said that, during August, 58,180 positions associated with household workers were recorded, with an average daily salary of 439.4 pesos ($ 23.55); while 348,912 positions associated with independent working people were recorded, with an average daily salary of 333.9 pesos (17.89 dollars).
Although IMSS is the main indicator of formal work in Mexico, analysts argue that it presents a partial portrait because in the country almost 55% of the workforce is informal, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), which places the unemployment rate by 2.7%, near the historical minimum.
With EFE information.
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