Brazil closed the month of October with a positive balance of 85,147 formal jobs. The balance is from the New General Register of Employed and Unemployed People (Novo Caged) released this Thursday (27) by the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE). 
The October result resulted from 2,271,460 admissions and 2,186,313 dismissals in the period.
The balance of formal jobs last month was lower than the registered in September, which stood at 213,002. In October 2024, the balance of formal jobs was 131,603, according to Caged.
In the last 12 months (November 2024 to October 2025), the balance reaches 1,351,832, lower than the balance observed in the period from November 2023 to October 2024, when 1,796,543 jobs were created.
As a result, the stock of jobs in the country reaches 48,995,950 CLT positions.
Sectors
Two of the five large clusters tested positivethe others remained practically stable.
The services sector closed the month with 82,436 and commerce with 25,592. Industry decreased by 10,092 (-0.1%); civil construction saw a decrease of 2,875 (-0.1%) and agriculture recorded a negative balance of 9,917 vacancies (-0.5%).
States
Last month, a positive balance was recorded in 21 of the 27 states of the federation. In absolute numbers, the highlight was São Paulo, with 18,456; the Federal District, with 15,467 and Pernambuco, with 10,596
Proportionally, the highlight was also the Federal District, which grew 1.5%, Alagoas, with 1% and Amapá, with 0.7%. Of the total jobs created in the month, 67.7% were considered typical and 32.3% non-typical, with emphasis on workers with intermittent working hours who totaled 15,056 and workers with a journey of 30 hours or less, who had 10,693 vacancies.
Wage
The real average salary for admission in October was R$2,304.31, an increase of R$17.28 (0.8%) compared to the value in September, which was R$2,287.02.
“For workers considered typical, the real entry salary was R$2,348.20 (1.9% higher than the average value), while for non-typical workers it was R$1,974.07 (14.3% lower than the average value)”, informed the ministry.
Women won the majority of vacancies, with 65,913. Men added 19,234 new jobs. They had a greater number of contracts in the service sectors (52,003, compared to 30,433 for men).
Young people aged 18 to 24 represented 80,365 of the hires and teenagers up to 17 years old 23,586. These two groups were most hired in the Service sector, with 54,528 vacancies; Commerce, with 32,203 and in the Manufacturing Industry, with 10,051.
Drop in jobs
The Minister of Labor and Employment, Luiz Marinho, credited the drop in the number of vacancies to the Central Bank’s interest policywhich maintained the economy’s basic interest rate, the Selic. The rate, which was 10.5% per year until September last year, was raised to 15% per year.
“I have been drawing attention since May or June to the need for the Central Bank, which has the need to monitor and make decisions to increase, maintain or decrease the Selic rate, to look carefully, as the economy would enter a process of deceleration. The problem is that if you slow down, at some point the car will stop”, he pointed out.
According to him, it is time for the Central Bank to take measures in relation to monitoring interest rates.
“There is a great understanding that this is inhibiting the pace of investments. There are committed investments by companies that are slowing down due to interest rates. It is more than urgent time for the Central Bank to have the sensitivity to understand that this process is necessary [de diminuição dos juros]”, he added.
