Bahia records a balance of over 9,500 job openings created by February, points out Caged | Eye on the City – Eye on the City Program news from Feira de Santana – Bahia

Bahia generated 6,249 formal jobs, resulting from the difference between 79,199 admissions and 72,950 dismissals in February, according to the General Register of Employed and Unemployed Persons (Caged). Thus, the accumulated balance until February was 9,548 vacancies. February’s data proved to be higher than January’s (+3,299 jobs) and the same month last year (+8,552 jobs).

Still according to Caged, with this result, the state now has 2,061,843 active CLT contracts, a variation of 0.30% on the previous month’s number. The state capital, Salvador, recorded a balance of 4,741 CLT jobs. Under the responsibility of the Ministry of Labor and Employment, formal employment data was systematized by the Superintendency of Economic and Social Studies of Bahia (SEI), an agency linked to the Planning Secretariat of the State of Bahia (Seplan).

In absolute terms, with 6,249 new formal jobs, Bahia occupied the first position in the generation of jobs among the northeastern states in the month. Among the federative entities, it was in tenth place. In relative terms, with a percentage change of 0.30%, it ranked second in the Northeast.

COMPARISON

In the month, Brazil recorded a balance of 306,111 vacancies, while the Northeast registered 10,571 new positions – representing relative variations of 0.67% and 0.14% compared to the previous month’s stock, respectively. Among the country’s 27 federative units, only three did not report growth in CLT employment in February this year.