Malta: wholesale & retail trade employment 2021

In 2021, the number of employees in the wholesale and retail trade industry incl. repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles in Malta increased by 3,035 employees (+10.14 percent) since 2020. With 32,975 employees, the number of employees thereby reached its highest value in the observed period.
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 wholesale and retail trade including the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles industry in Malta from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	32,975
2020	29,940
2019	30,530
2018	30,052
2017	28,527
2016	27,329
2015	24,728
2014	22,288
2013	22,011
2012	20,954

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Release date

March 2024

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Malta

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

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 is for the code G of the CE_R2 of economic activities, which is wholesale and retail trade including the repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles.

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