The Social Security registered an average of 670,298 foreign contributors in the Community of Madrid in June, an 8.89% increase compared to a year ago. This figure marks a new historical high, driven by hospitality and commerce.
The Community of Madrid has reached a new record of foreign contributors in June, with an average of 670,298 contributors, according to data published by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration. This figure represents an increase of 8.89% compared to the same month last year, with 49,329 more employed.
Of the total foreign contributors in the region, 53.02% are men (355,422) and 46.97% women (314,874). By origin, 28.83% come from EU countries (193,271), while 70.21% (477,027) come from outside the EU. The Community of Madrid accounts for 19.47% of the total foreign workers in Spain, and 17.25% of the contributors in the region are foreigners.
Hospitality and Commerce, the Sectors that Employ the Most Foreigners
79.85% of foreign contributors in Madrid are registered under the General Social Security Regime (535,286). The sectors with the highest presence are hospitality, with 92,018 contributors (13.72%); retail and wholesale trade, with 91,701 (13.94%); administrative activities, with 78,992 (12%); construction, with 76,965 (11.48%); and transport and storage, with 45,583 (7%).
In the Special System for Domestic Employees (SEH), 53,100 foreigners work in the region, of which 95.5% are women (52,596). This sector has grown by 12.7% in the last year, with 6,220 new contributors. In June, 1,246 more workers joined, a 2.31% increase compared to May. Of the total foreign women contributors in Madrid, 16.7% work in domestic roles, and 13.7% are from outside the EU.
On the other hand, self-employed foreign workers in the region total 81,481, with 486 new self-employed individuals in just one month.
National Record and the Effect of Regularisation
At the national level, Social Security registered an average of 3,446,178 foreign contributors in June, an 11.31% increase compared to a year ago. The seasonally adjusted figure reached 3,329,979, with 330,754 new contributors in twelve months. Since June 2022, the number of foreign contributors has increased by more than 980,000, and 44.5% of the jobs created since the labour reform correspond to foreign workers.
The pace of increase has accelerated since late April, when the regularisation process for foreign individuals was initiated. As of June 30, 159,097 people had registered thanks to this process, with 83.4% in the General Regime. The indefinite contract predominates among new registrations (77.3%), and the sectors that most concentrate these new contributors are hospitality (38,776), commerce (20,195), administrative activities (19,327), and construction (18,310).
By country, Morocco remains the most numerous nationality, with 422,347 contributors across Spain. It is followed by Romania (353,974), Colombia (316,460), Venezuela (239,892), Italy (223,500), China (133,098), Peru (122,633), and Ukraine (84,020).
Job Stability and Importance in Key Sectors
87.8% of foreign workers in Spain have indefinite contracts, compared to 41.1% on average during the period 2017-2021, before the labour reform. The temporary employment rate for this group has fallen to 12.2%, even below the 12.3% for national workers.
In sectors such as hospitality, foreigners represent 31.5% of contributors; in agriculture, 28.9%; in construction, 25.9%; in administrative activities, 18.6%; and in transport, 18.2%. In the Special System for Domestic Workers, they account for 45.5%, and in Agriculture, 41.7%.
For the Madrid reader, these figures reflect that one in six workers in the region is foreign, a reality that is particularly noticeable in daily life: from the waiter serving coffee to the builder renovating a home, to the package delivery person. The ongoing regularisation will continue to increase these figures in the coming months.
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