To main content

Employment, job vacancies and wage sums. Enterprise-based statistics, 1st quarter 2017:

Number of employees increased by 2.6 percent

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2017-05-24 9.30

In the first quarter of 2017 the number of employees amounted to 4 544 800, an increase of 2.6 percent compared with the same quarter last year. Total gross pay amounted to SEK 418.0 billion, an increase of 4.4 percent. There were 127 400 job openings on the labour market, an increase of 14.0 percent.

Publication

A more detailed report of this survey is published in a Statistical Report.

Next publishing will be

2017-08-24 at 09:30.

Statistical Database

More information is available in the Statistical Database

Feel free to use the facts from this statistical news but remember to state Source: Statistics Sweden.

Statistical agency and producer

Statistics Sweden, Salaries and Employment

Address
701 89 Örebro

Enquiries

Short-term employment:

Dolan Haddad

Telephone
+46 10 479 65 43
E-mail
dolan.haddad@scb.se

Aggregate gross pay, payroll taxes and prel. tax statistics from employers monthly tax returns:

Magnus Bråneryd

Telephone
+46 10 479 66 84
E-mail
magnus.braneryd@scb.se

Job openings and unmet labour demand:

Dolan Haddad

Telephone
+46 10 479 65 43
E-mail
dolan.haddad@scb.se