Europe 1 with AFP 2:44 p.m., February 04, 2022

According to a provisional estimate published Friday by INSEE, the private sector recorded 648,200 net job creations over one year at the end of 2021 (+ 3.3%), exceeding its level by 1.5%. pre-crisis, end of 2019. In the last quarter, salaried employment increased by 0.5% (+106,700), as in the previous quarter.

The private sector recorded 648,200 net job creations over one year at the end of 2021 (+3.3%), exceeding its pre-crisis level by nearly 300,000 jobs, according to the provisional estimate published on Friday. by INSEE.

In total, at the end of December 2021, private salaried employment exceeded its pre-crisis level by 1.5% (i.e. +297,300 jobs) at the end of 2019, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.

Over 300,000 jobs destroyed in 2020 due to Covid

In 2020, under the effect of the Covid-19 crisis, some 320,000 jobs had been destroyed in the private sector (-1.6%), after five consecutive years of increase.

In the last quarter of 2021, employment in the private sector increased by 0.5% (+106,700), as in the previous quarter.

Temporary employment, the compass of the job market, increased "strongly" in the last quarter (+9.1%, or 71,100 jobs) and exceeded its pre-crisis level for the first time, indicates INSEE.

At the end of 2021, it was 8.2% above its level at the end of 2019 (i.e. +64,500 jobs).

Excluding temporary work, salaried employment exceeded its pre-crisis level in all sectors except industry.

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What results for industry, the commercial tertiary sector, or even construction?

Industrial employment (excluding temporary workers) increased slightly again in Q4 2021 (+0.2%).

However, it had fallen by 1.9% over the whole of 2020 (-56,200 jobs).

At the end of December 2021, industrial employment thus remained below its pre-crisis level: -1.2% compared to the end of 2019 (i.e. -38,200 jobs).

In the commercial tertiary sector excluding temporary work, private salaried employment slowed down again: only +0.3% (+30,800).

Employment in this sector was very marked by the health restriction measures, falling in particular by 2.6% over the whole of 2020 (i.e. -298,700 jobs).

But it rebounded strongly in 2021, increasing in total over the year by 4% (+453,100 jobs).

At the end of December 2021, employment in this sector exceeded its level at the end of 2019 by 1.3% (i.e. +154,300 jobs).

In construction, private salaried employment (excluding temporary work) stabilized in Q4 2021 (0%).

It remains well above its pre-crisis level: +4.5% or +65,000 jobs.

Finally, private salaried employment in the non-market tertiary sector fell slightly in the 4th quarter (-0.2%).

It is 2% above its level at the end of 2019 (i.e. +49,900).