The self -employed change sector: commerce and transportation go to schooling and communications | Economy | EUROtoday

The Autonomous Collective has registered good employment figures within the first 4 -month interval of the yr in comparison with the top of 2024. Between January and April, Social Security has registered 15,433 extra self -employed staff, which represents a rise of 0.5% to including 3.4 million associates to the particular regime of autonomous (RETA). Although, in these months there’s a sure switch between sectors, because the Association of Autonomous Workers (ATA) has warned in its newest report.

The loss 2,762 autonomous in commerce and one other 2,276 in transport, each actions with a powerful presence of the group, has been compensated by the acquire of employed in sectors the place there’s historically much less presence of self -employed staff. Specifically, the 2 actions that almost all elevated their freelancers are data and communications, the place one of these employment has grown 3.1% in simply 4 months, with 2,657 extra staff; and schooling, which data a rise within the 2.1percentcollective, which represents 2,262 quotes extra to the reta.

However, in absolute phrases there are additionally different sorts of actions which have gained extra autonomous. This is the case of the development – the place the collective is widespread – with 4,138 autonomous extra between January and April, which represents a 1% advance within the first 4 -month interval of the yr; and technical skilled and scientific actions, with 4,560 extra associates, a rise of 1.3%. The self -employed acquire in actual property actions, which register a rise on this 1.7% employment (with 1,00 extra self -employed staff) can also be exceptional.

The president of ATA, Lorenzo Amor, interprets that these information by sectors present that “the activities where the presence of the minimum interprofessional salary – which has risen 61% since 2019 – is high are the most affected and have been destroying autonomous employment for months and even years.

Regional analysis also leaves some news. The communities where the self -employed have grown are the Balearic Islands, with a strong advance of almost 4 % (4,000 contributors to the more reta) and the Valencian Community, with an increase of 1.3 % (5,000 more occupied). Both communities, with the important presence of the tourism and hospitality sector, which has added 3,275 quotes throughout Spain (1% more than at the end of 2024), agglutinate 84% of the new highs to the system in the first four -month period.

Disaggregating the data and seeing evolution by provinces, half of the 50 Spanish and Ceuta provinces, failed Seville and Murcia (+0.8% in all three) who have registered the best affiliation data of self -employed workers.

Among the provinces that decreased their number of freelancers, the greatest losses were those registered in Ciudad Real and Valladolid, which are left in the first four -month period of the year, 0.8% of their own workers on their own and León, Badajoz and Albacete, the three with a decrease of 0.7% of their self -employed in just four months.

Types of new freelancers

As for the typology of the autonomous worker at the start of the year, the tendency of recent years remained, according to which women who decide to undertake exceed that of men. Thus, between January and April the autonomous increased 0.7% compared to last December (9,019 women) compared to an increase of 0.3% of self -employed (6,414 men).

In this report, attention is also called to the age behavior of the collective. All the age groups gain weight in the reef except those that are 40 to 45 years, where the self -employed (almost 2,000 less) descend 0.4%; and in those between 45 and 44 years, who descend 0.2% (842 less). On the contrary, the self -employed group over 64 is the one that earns the most workers, 5,210, which represents a four -monthly increase compared to December, 2.7%; And those youngest, between 16 and 19 years also experience a strong increase in affiliates to the 3.5% reta. (321 more occupied).

Despite all these data, for love “there are certain shadows in the figures that force us to be alert: despite the affiliation record, employment creation remains dragged by large and medium enterprises; however, within the scope of small businesses of 1 to 2 workers, employment continues to be destroyed,” concludes the president of ATA.