The number of women in employment is at a record level

By: Trademagazin Date: 2023. 03. 08. 08:40

Last year, an average of 2,156,000 working-age women were employed, thus increasing the employment rate of working-age women between the ages of 15 and 64 to 70 percent. The average gross salary of full-time employed women was nearly HUF 468,000, which is more than 17 percent lower than the HUF 566,000 figure for men, according to the analysis published by the Trenkwalder labor market service company on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

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.