He Government it’s been twelve months employing 97 people for every day in the sector publicaccording to the Regional Center for Sustainable Economic Strategies (Crees).
The entity carried out a analysis which he later published on his portal in which he makes a comparison of the number of people who work for the State from 2008 to September of this 2024, highlighting that until the ninth month of the year the number of employees public in the country it reached 738,745. “This represents an increase of 26,898 people compared to the same period in 2023, when the figure was 711,847,” the report indicates.
The executive president of Crees, Miguel Collado Di Franco, explained to Diario Libre that the calculation of the number of employees follows from the roster published by the Superintendency of Health and Occupational Risks (Sisalril) based on the 286 business days of the year.
The document explains that the conclusion is 97 new employees for every day laborconsidering 23 days a month.
26,898
increase in people hired by the Government in the period January-September 2024.
“If we look further back, in 2008, the first available data from the series, the number of employees public It was 316,958. Compared to the current figure, the number has doubled 2.3 times, with an absolute increase of 421,787 people,” he indicates.
He adds that the growth reflects a constant trend of expansion of the sector public in the last two decades.
In that order, it points out that from September 2023 to the same month of this year, the increase in workers public It was 3.7%, going from 711,847 employees to 738,745.
“Frozen payroll“
On September 16 of this year, the Government put a cap on roster public to control the number of servers that are hired, this as part of its cost containment measures.
The announcement was made in LA Semanal with the Press by the Minister of Finance, Jochi Vicente, who indicated that the roster publictaking into account the month of August 2024, that is, the payroll cannot be increased employees in public institutions, beyond the amount reported the previous month.
Vicente said at the time that the measure includes an exception regarding the hiring of teacherspolice, military and doctorsdue to the very nature of its functions and the demand of the population.
Diario Libre analyzed the information on the roster public published by the Social Security Treasury (TSS), whose most recent statistics are until October 2024. According to the data, there were 2,473 new quotes of employees government from September to October of this year, exceeding the average amount by which the data grew each month.
When evaluating the distribution of workers contributors of the sector public By economic sector, the largest amount is concentrated in the services sector, representing close to 99.7% of the total quotes.
Resources to pay
Crees criticized the increase in rosterunderscoring the importance of understanding where the resources to finance this growing statistic of employees: from taxpayers’ money. “Every peso that the State uses to increase the employment public “It is a burden that cannot be directed to more productive sectors of the economy,” the report states.
“A State that grows too much not only increases spending publicbut also limits the opportunities for employment productive and slows down the economy’s ability to generate wealth. By absorbing more resources, the Government displaces the private sector, which is the true driving force of the economic development“says the report.
He also observed that, instead of fostering an environment where investment and the innovation prosper, the excessive growth of the sector public creates greater dependence on state spending.
The average contributory salary in the public sector was 41,807 pesos as of October 2024, reflecting an absolute variation of 1,828.7 compared to the same month in 2023. TSS statistics indicate that there was a sustained increase during the first ten months of the year.
