Spain – 60,000 More Public Employees Than in 2007

The number of public employees in September stood at a total of 2.99 million, thus lowering the threshold of 3 million for the first time since the third quarter of 2008. Nevertheless, the Spanish public sector still has to this day with more than 59,800 employees at the beginning of the crisis, as in the third quarter of 2007 they numbered 2,931,900 workers.

While in late 2007 Spain had about 2.9 million public employees, in the third quarter of 2011 the volume amounted to 3.22 million, a record of history. That is, public sector workers increased by 350,000 in crisis: some 45,000 in central government, another 45,000 in the Local and nearly 250,000 in the CCAA…

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via Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis: Spain Still Has 60,000 More Public Employees Than in 2007.