With over 46 thousand positions filled, Pará leads formal job creation in the North Region in the first 9 months of 2025

The formal market in Pará showed a positive balance in job creation in September across all sectors, with services having the highest number of hires. According to the survey released by the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (DIEESE), along with the State Secretariat for Social Assistance, Labor, Employment, and Income (Seaster), this Thursday (30). With this new result, from January to September this year, in the comparison between admissions and dismissals, there was growth in formal employment, as the State recorded 401,428 admissions and 354,767 dismissals during this period, resulting in a positive outcome of 46,661 formal job positions.

Analyses also show that the activities in Pará that presented growth in formal job creation were the services sector, with a positive balance of 21,880 job positions, followed by the commerce sector, with a positive balance of 10,402 job positions, the industry sector, with a positive balance of 8,401 job positions; the construction sector, with a positive balance of 7,320 job positions, and the unidentified sector, with a positive balance of 5 job positions.

The study, based on new data from the General Register of Employed and Unemployed (CAGED) from the Ministry of Labor, also shows that in September, in the comparison between admissions and dismissals, Pará again presented a positive balance in formal job creation, with nearly 10 thousand job positions.

According to the analyses from DIEESE/PA, the study shows that, according to CAGED data, in September there were 48,218 admissions and 38,443 dismissals, resulting in a positive balance of 9,775 job positions. In the analyzed month, most of the macroeconomic sectors in Pará showed growth in formal jobs, with emphasis on the services sector, with a positive balance of 4,102 job positions, followed by the commerce sector, with a positive balance of 2,199 job positions, the construction sector with a positive balance of 1,598 job positions, the industry sector with a positive balance of 1,514 job positions, and the agriculture sector with a positive balance of 361 job positions.

All states in the North Region showed positive balances in formal job creation, with 115,700 admissions and 97,549 dismissals, generating a positive balance of 18,151 job positions. According to the survey, Pará accounted for more than half of the total positive balance for the entire North Region.

North Region

The analyses from DIEESE/PA also show that, throughout the North Region, in the accumulated balance of the first seven months of this year, there were a total of 1,016,440 admissions, against 907,267 dismissals, achieving a positive balance of 109,173 job positions.

In the analyzed period, all states that are part of the North Region showed growth in formal jobs in the comparison between admissions and dismissals, with emphasis on the state of Pará, which accounted for more than 40.0% of the job positions generated.

National Ranking

This result corroborates that the state of Pará remains in the lead for formal job creation in the North Region, ranking 10th nationally, ahead of states like Rio Grande do Sul, Amazonas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District.

“We continue to work tirelessly to ensure that our population has increasing access to the job market, with more investments in professional training and partnerships with companies that guarantee new opportunities, to boost job and income generation throughout Pará. In addition to carrying out continuous actions such as job fairs in various municipalities and free courses in several areas,” highlighted Inocencio Gasparim, head of Seaster.

Expectation

Based on the data presented by DIEESE/PA regarding the movement of formal employment in Pará, if we maintain the average behavior, with about 42 thousand admissions recorded by the end of this year, we could reach about 50 thousand admissions, a number greater than the total recorded in 2024, when Pará reached about 45 thousand admissions.