French private payroll employment continued to grow at a moderate pace

In Q2 2018, private payroll employment continued to grow at a moderate pace : +0.2% after +0.2% in Q1 (that is +31,000 net job creations after +46,000 jobs). Year on year, private payroll employment increased by +1.3% (that is +241,100 jobs). Excluding temporary employment, it increased by +0.2% over the quarter (that is +29,900 jobs) and by +1.0% over the year (+186,500 jobs).

Private payroll employment increased at the same pace as in the previous quarter in construction (+0.3%, +4,100 jobs, after +3,600 jobs). It fell back by 0.1% in industry (that is −3,800 jobs, after −700 jobs). Year on year, private employment increased by 23,200 in construction and by 3,800 in industry.

In market services, private employment continued to increase: +0.2% (that is +29,600 jobs), a little more slowly than in the previous quarters (+0.3% in Q1 2018). Its rise amounts to 199,900 over a year. Excluding temporary employment, it grows at the same pace as in Q1 2018: +0.3%. Private employment in non-market services stabilised in Q2 2018 (after +0.1%), at a level 0.4% higher than a year ago.