+0.2% in the second quarter of 2024 and +0.9% over 12 months

Growth in paid employment continues to slow: in the second quarter of 2024, there was a moderate increase of +0.2% compared with the first quarter of 2024. In terms of annual variation, the increase falls below 1% (+0.9% in the second quarter of 2024, compared to +2.4% in the second quarter of 2023). Trade, transport, accommodation and food services (+0.6%) and administration and other public services (+1.1%) show the strongest quarterly increases compared to the first quarter of 2024. In contrast, the industrial and construction sectors once again recorded a decline in the number of employees in the second quarter of 2024.

Trade, transport, accommodation and food services (+1.9% year-on-year) and administration and other public services (+3.9% year-on-year) are the most dynamic sectors in year-on-year comparison. For the former activities, the favourable development stems from auxiliary air transport services. As for public administration and other public services, central government services recorded the most favourable growth. In terms of annual variation, the construction sector saw a sharp drop of -5.4% in the number of employees. Residential and non-residential building construction activities suffered the greatest job losses.
In the second quarter of 2024, the number of resident employees rose more strongly than the number of cross-border commuters (+0.3% for residents compared to +0.1 for cross-border commuters compared to the first quarter of 2024). While the number of French cross-border commuters continues to rise, the number of Belgian and German cross-border commuters has fallen compared with the previous quarter.

Evolution of salaried employment (compared to the previous quarter)

Source: STATEC, National Accounts, seasonally adjusted data

Evolution of salaried employment 

Note méthodologique :

Employment estimates are based on the national accounts concept and are drawn up in accordance with the European System of National and Regional Accounts 2010 (ESA 2010), which defines employment in accordance with International Labour Organisation (ILO) criteria.

Data on domestic salaried employment include all employees working on national territory, i.e. including cross-border employees living beyond the national border and coming to work in the Grand Duchy, and exclude resident employees working abroad and international civil servants residing in the country. The unit of measurement is the person. Thus, a person working part-time counts as one person, as does a person working two part-time jobs. Nor is there any conversion into full-time equivalents.

Estimates of employment in the national accounts may differ from those of other statistics, such as social security registrations published by the IGSS (which include employees who do not work on national territory and which do not distinguish by kind of economic activity unit), or surveys, in particular the Labour Force Survey (which does not include cross-border commuters).

The data are seasonally adjusted and subject to revision. For business cycle analysis and quarter-on-quarter changes, the data are seasonally adjusted, while year-on-year changes are calculated on the raw data. 

Long series, both unadjusted and seasonally adjusted, are available in the 'Labour market' section of the Statistics Portal.

The data is published once a quarter, 75 days after the end of the reference period (T+75 days).