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work full time and an average of 35.9 effective
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES hours per week, while part-time workers work
As annual average and % Chart 4.9 an average of 17.7 hours per week. In global
terms, the employed population works 34.4
effective hours per week, practically one hour
more than in 2021, due to the post-pandemic
reactivation of the economy.

The number of employees grew 10.6%
due to reactivation of the economy.

Data from the Andorran Social Security System
(CASS) show a rapid recovery in the number
Number of employees (annual average) of employees in 2022, even greater than
Annual variation (%, right axis) the total reflected in the Workplace Survey.
Source: CASS (Andorran Social Security System) / Department of Statistics. Specifically, they show that the number of
employees increased 10.6% to 41,696, the
highest level since 2007, just before the start
of the financial crisis. Equally, the average number of jobs rose 10.8%, after two years of decline
due to the pandemic, to 50,519.

The steep increase in numbers of employed that was recorded in 2022 was spread between the
main economic sectors. Specifically, construction has seen eight consecutive years of job creation
(+5.4% in 2022) and the number of employees already exceeds 3,900, the highest number since
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2010 but still 42% lower than the figure at the end of the previous cycle of expansion (2006).

In the case of industry, the trend in employees in 2022 was positive, with an increase of 5.8%,
to 1,791 people, after the decline recorded in the previous year. The primary sector also saw an
Andorran economy: general developments | IV. Population, labour market and education
increase, breaking the downward trend of the previous five years, although its performance has a
lower impact on the economy because it is an activity with a very small percentage of the labour
market, with only 159 employees.

In 2022, services – the sector in Andorra with the highest level of employment – benefitted most
from the total elimination of the restrictive measures adopted during the two pandemic years

Table 4.2
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
% variation % total 2022
2022 2022/2021
Agriculture, livestock, hunting & forestry 159 3.0 0.4
Industry 1,791 5.8 4.3
Construction 3,919 5.4 9.4
Services 35,828 11.5 85.9
Commerce & motor vehicle repairs (etc.) 8,872 8.5 21.3
Hotels & catering 5,194 42.7 12.5
Financial system 1,716 -2.8 4.1
Public administration, defence & mandatory social security 4,652 -0.5 11.2
Others 15,394 11.0 36.9
Total 41,696 10.6 100

Source: CASS (Andorran Social Security System) / Department of Statistics.