One of four formal jobs that were registered in 2019 were not recovered in 2021. According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), at the end of the outgoing year there was a gap of at least 816,500 suitable jobs in Metropolitan Lima, 17.6% more than in 2020, but 25.7% less than in the pre-pandemic year.
According to the latest report Labor Market Technician According to the INEI, between January and December 2021, 2 million 355,200 people were registered as adequately employed in metropolitan Lima, compared to 2 million 3,400 in 2020 and 3 million 171,700 in 2019.
On the other hand, the unemployed population in 2021 reached 548,800 people, only 3.1% less than in 2020, when 566,600 were reported. Only 17,800 new jobs were won, between formal and informal.
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Finally, the underemployed population in 2021 stood at 2,209,500 people, 24.4% more than the 1,776,300 registered in 2020, and 26.8% more than the 1,742,400 in 2019. That is, 467,100 more underemployed people than in the pre-pandemic period, and 433,200 than last year.
salaries fell
The average salaries of metropolitan Lima in 2021 contracted 8.6% compared to 2019, and 1.3% compared to 2020, reported the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI).
In this way, the average salary between January and December was S/ 1,586.8, compared to S/ 1,735.9 in 2019 (-S/ 149.1) and S/ 1,607.4 in 2020 (-S/ 20.6), according to the Technical Report on the Labor Market Situation in Metropolitan Lima.
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Disaggregated by sex, the average monthly income of men was located at
S/ 1,780.4, a drop of 0.3% compared to 2020, when it stood at S/ 1,785.8; and 10.7% less than 2019, when it stood at S/ 1,994.4. With this, the salaries of men in 2021 contracted by S / 214 on average compared to the pre-pandemic level.
In the case of women, the average monthly income was S/ 1,337.7, a drop of 5.8% compared to S/ 1,420.5 in 2019; and 2.9% compared to 2020, when it stood at S/ 1,377.1. With this, the salaries of women in 2021 contracted by S / 82.8 on average compared to the pre-pandemic level.
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At this point, it should be noted that, in 2021, the average income of women meant only 75.1% of the income of men.
The data
Contrast. In December the Central Reserve Bank raised the growth projection for the Peruvian economy from 11.9% to 13.2% for 2021, mainly due to “a rapid recovery of national productive activity.”
Evolution of employment to 2021
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