Spain: accommodation & food service industry employees 2021

The number of employees in the accommodation and food service industry in Spain increased by 26,278 employees (+2.29 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. In total, the number of employees amounted to 1,173,578 employees in 2021.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the accommodation and food service activities industry in Spain from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	1,173,578
2020	1,147,300
2019	1,340,695
2018b	1,281,547
2017	1,214,415
2016	1,122,330
2015	1,002,474
2014	923,334
2013	910,490
2012	922,432

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Release date

March 2024

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Spain

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 I of CE Rev 2.

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