In Italy There is a good growth of the labor marketwith the INPS data published in March 2025 and relating to December 2024 which indicate an annualized balance of 375 thousand jobs In addition to sector private. Above all, the permanent contracts are growing, with the other contractual types that have highlighted a positive tendential variation.
Private work grows above all in Italy
As highlighted by INPS in his Observatory on the labor market edited by the General Coordination Statistical Impathetorial, by the Central Revenue Directorate and the Central Computer Technology and Innovation Management, in 2024 in Italy 8.1 million have been recorded hiring and 7.7 million the cessationswith 761 thousand contracts that have been transformed for a fixed -term period.
To push the good Italian data at the end of December 2024, as mentioned, it was above all the private sector. The annualized balance, which is remembered is calculated through the difference between hiring and terminations in the previous 12 months, is equal to more 375 thousand work positions, with the majority of contracts which appears to be indefinitely (+315 thousand). For what the other contractual types concerns, the tendential variation is less, but in any case positive, with the synthetic data that reports of +60 thousand employment relationships.
Subsidized employment relationships fall
Entering more detail of the data provided by INPS, some aspects emerge which inevitably affected the government settings given to the labor market. There is no wonder, therefore, if in 2024 there was a 43% reduction on an annual basis of the Incentivized working relationshipsespecially for what the young and the women. The data indicate respectively a less 64% and a less 21%.
On the subject it is necessary to specify that despite the contribution exemption measures for the hiring of young and female workers have been extended until 31 December 2027, Italy is still in the authorization by the European Commission. It should be remembered that as regards the measure known as south decontribution, this ceased to exist in its original form on 31 December 2024, with the new Budget Law which provided for a downfall of incentives until 2029.
The hiring in administration descend
Another relevant figure of the Italian labor market in 2024 is that relating to hiring in administration. Despite a positive annual balance in December, equal to an increase of 2 thousand positions, it is to be recorded that the annual descent was 6% of the permanent contracts and 3% for the term.
Occasional work also grows
Looking at occasional working relationships, The INPS Observatory highlights how the number of workers with these contracts (CPO) has grown in Italy by 6% in 2024 compared to the previous year. The total therefore reaches 19 thousand, with a gross monthly amount disbursed of 288 euros.
Finally, the workers paid with the family booklet also grow, a more 2% in 2024, with the average remuneration which in this is 173 euros.
