📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion (MTPE) reported that, according to the report Employment Outlook: 2023-2024, the employed EAP at the national level would grow 1.1% in 2023, which would mean an expansion of close to 192 thousand people, compared to 2022.
In absolute terms, the agriculture, livestock, hunting and forestry sector would generate the most workers, projecting an increase of 69,2 additional workers. Meanwhile, mining will be the most dynamic sector with a projected growth of its employment rate of around 1.<>%.
On the other hand, according to the Occupational Demand Survey (EDO), prepared by the MTPE, it is estimated that by 2023 formal private companies with 20 or more workers would demand a total of 348,859 new jobs.
Metropolitan Lima
With regard to the capital city, during the April-June mobile quarter of this year, the employed population was 5 million 215 thousand 500 people, which means an increase of 2.5% (127,800 people) compared to the similar period of 2022, according to results of the Permanent National Employment Survey (EPEN), of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).
According to this study, compared to the same moving quarter of 2021, the employed EAP increased by 14.0% (640,600 people), while compared to the same period at the beginning of the pandemic it increased by 137.3% (3,17,600 people).
The sector that mainly drove this growth was services, which rose by 7.6% (209 thousand people), followed by manufacturing with 4.7% (31 800 people). On the other hand, the construction and trade sectors had contractions of 12.8% and 4.8%; respectively.
This growth in Metropolitan Lima during the April-June 2023 mobile quarter was mainly reflected in women, who increased by 4.3% (99,400 employed people), compared to the same period in 2022. In men, the growth was 1.0% (28,600).
Regarding the average monthly income in Metropolitan Lima during the period under analysis, it stood at S/ 1 925; registering an increase of 15.4% (S/ 258); with respect to the same moving quarter of 2022.
On the other hand, the greatest positive variation in employment occurred in companies with 11 to 50 workers with 24.4% (111,300 people), followed by those with 51 or more workers with 11.9% (153,300). While in those with 1 to 10 workers, employment decreased by 4.1% (-136,600 people).
