Italy: professional & technical activities employees 2021

The number of employees in the professional, scientific, and technical industry in Italy increased by 16,518 employees (+3.1 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. Therefore, the number of employees in Italy reached a peak in 2021 with 550,062 employees.
According to Eurostat employed persons are all persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, and education or training.

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Total number of employees in the professional, scientific, and technical activities industry in Italy from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	550,062
2020	533,544
2019	532,666
2018	523,430
2017b	491,138
2016	500,240
2015	473,176
2014	456,121
2013	453,297
2012	445,450

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Release date

March 2024

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Italy

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to code M of CE Rev 2.

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