Rio de Janeiro – The employment level in the Brazilian industry had a slight increase of 0.1% from July to August. The result of the Monthly Industrial Employment and Wages Survey, disclosed today (8th) by the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute (IBGE), represents the eight consecutive increase using this basis of comparison.
There was growth of 5.2% compared with the same period of 2009 and of 0.5% over the last 12-month period.
According to the survey, earnings of industry workers decreased by 2.9% from one month to the other, but there was growth of 9.0% compared with August 2009. In the 12-month period, there was an increase of 2.5%.
According to the IBGE, year-on-year, industrial employment has increased in all of the 14 regions surveyed, the highlights being the state of São Paulo (3.8%), the Northeast region (6.7%), the state of Rio Grande do Sul (8.1%), the North and Midwest regions (7.9%) and the state of Minas Gerais (4.4%).
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
