Between the end of March and the end of June 2022, salaried employment increased by 0.4% (+95,300 jobs), almost as in the first quarter (+0.3%, i.e. +91,700 jobs). It had increased continuously during 2021, with an increase of 3.4% in total between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021 (+861,000 jobs).
According to INSEE, in mid-2022, salaried employment was significantly above its level a year earlier (+2.2%, or +561,100 jobs) and its level before the health crisis. , at the end of 2019 (+3.2% or +832,000 jobs).
Growth driven by employment in the private sector
This increase in the second quarter of 2022 is mainly driven by private salaried employment, which rose by 0.5% (+93,000 jobs), after +0.4% in the first quarter of 2022 (+88,200 jobs). It is thus 3.8% above its end-2019 level. On the other hand, salaried employment in the public sector is stable, after +0.1% in the first quarter of 2022. It exceeds its pre-crisis level.
The only downside, in the second quarter of 2022, temporary employment, which remains a leading indicator on the job market, fell by 2.5% (-20,500 jobs), after a decline of 1.9% in the first quarter of 2022 (-15,800 jobs). It fell in the first quarter of 2020 and then increased significantly until the end of 2021. However, temporary employment remains slightly above its level at the end of 2019 (+ 1.6%).
Catering still creating jobs
Several sectors recruited strongly in the second quarter This is the case of the commercial tertiary sector excluding temporary work with an increase of 0.8%, but also the accommodation and catering sector which contributed the most to the overall increase in the trimester. It should be noted that employment in industry has returned to its pre-crisis level.