Domestic payroll employment: +0.2% in the second quarter of 2025 and +0.9% over 12 months

Quarterly growth in salaried employment remains moderate, with an increase of 0.2% compared to the first quarter of 2025. Year-on-year, the increase stands at 0.9%. Administration and other public services (+0.9%) posted the strongest quarterly growth compared with the first quarter of 2025. In contrast, the construction and information and communication sectors recorded a decline in the number of employees in the second quarter of 2025.

Once again, administration and other public services (+3.8% year-on-year) were the most dynamic sectors in annual comparison. Central government services and social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled recorded the most favourable growth. Year-on-year, the construction and information and communication sectors saw a sharp decline of 2.6% in the number of employees. The activities that recorded the highest job losses were residential and non-residential building construction (677 jobs lost) and IT facility management (539 jobs lost).

In the second quarter of 2025, the number of resident employees grew slightly faster than that of cross-border workers: +0.3% compared to the first quarter of 2025 for residents, compared to +0.2% for cross-border workers. The number of German and Belgian cross-border employees fell compared to the second quarter of 2024: -0.7% for German cross-border employees and -0.3% for those from Belgium. 

Evolution of domestic payroll employment (compared to the previous quarter)

Source: STATEC, National Accounts, seasonally adjusted data

Evolution of domestic payroll employment

Methodological note :

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

Data on domestic salaried employment include all employees working in the national territory, including cross-border employees living beyond the national border and coming to work in the Grand Duchy, but excluding 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 employed in two part-time jobs. There is also no conversion to full-time equivalents.

Employment estimates in the national accounts may differ from those in other statistics, such as social security registrations published by the IGSS (which include employees who do not work in the national territory and do not distinguish by economic activity unit), or surveys, in particular the labour force survey (which does not cover cross-border workers).

The data are seasonally adjusted and subject to revision. For short-term analysis and quarter-on-quarter developments, the data are seasonally adjusted, while year-on-year changes are calculated on the basis of 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).