Caged: Brazil creates 72,960 formal jobs in May.

Brazil created 72,960 formal jobs in May, according to data from… New General Registry of Employed and Unemployed Workers (Caged), released this Tuesday (30) by the Ministry of Labor and Employment. The result is due to 2,207,303 admissions and 2,134,343 dismissals in the period. The balance for May was the lowest since the beginning of this year and the lowest for the month since 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. In May 2025, 153,108 jobs had been created. Individually in the fifth month of this year, positive balances were recorded in the service (+45,655), construction (+12,096), industry (+4,974), agriculture (+10,205) and trade (+40) sectors. In the accumulated total from 2026 to the present, Brazil has created almost 767,326 jobs, also the worst since 2020.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.