The number of women in employment is at a record level

Women at work

In the last ten years, thanks in part to the employment policy measures of the last decade, the number of working-age women in employment has increased greatly: in the age group between 15 and 64, 2 million 156 thousand people worked in 2022, 261 thousand more than in 2012. With this, the employment rate of working-age women rose from 55.7 to 69.9 percent. The activity was the highest in the second half of the year, so the employment rate in this period was already over 70 percent. By the way, the similar rate for men was 78.8 percent in 2022.

Measures to help mothers with small children find employment have also brought about a significant change: between 2012 and 2022, the employment rate among women raising children younger than 3 increased by 9 percentage points to 78 percent.

In 2022, the average gross monthly earnings of women employed full-time was HUF 467,900, which was 17.3 percent lower than the average of HUF 565,700 for men.