Domestic payroll employment: +0.5% in the third quarter of 2025 and +1.3% over 12 months

In the third quarter of 2025, salaried employment showed a moderate acceleration compared to previous quarters, with a quarter-on-quarter increase of +0.5% and an annual increase of +1.3%. This momentum was mainly driven by administration and other public services: +1.1% compared to the previous quarter. In contrast, the construction and manufacturing sectors saw a decline in the number of employees in the third quarter of 2025.

Once again, administration and other public services (+4.1% year-on-year) was the most dynamic sector in annual terms. Central government services and social work activities, excluding residential care for the elderly and disabled, recorded the most favorable growth. Year-on-year, the construction sector saw a sharp decline of 2.1% in the number of employees, mainly in residential and non-residential construction activities, which suffered the most significant job losses.

In the third quarter of 2025, the increase in the number of resident employees (+0.5% compared to the second quarter of 2025) remained slightly below that of cross-border workers (+0.6%).

Employment of German cross-border workers contracted by 0.6% compared to the third quarter of 2024, while it increased year-on-year for cross-border workers from other countries.

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).