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While employment in the domestic primary labor market decreased slightly year-on-year, the overall employment rate among 15–64-year-olds held steady at 75.4%.
In the July–September period, the number of employed persons aged 15–74 averaged 4.68 million, 29,000 fewer than a year earlier. The decline affected both genders, with male employment falling by 21,000 to 2.47 million and female employment slipping to 2.21 million.
A total of 4.5 million people worked in Hungary’s domestic primary labor market, down by 41,000 year-on-year. The number of public workers stood at 72,000, while an estimated 103,000 Hungarians were employed abroad.
The employment rate for the core working-age population (15–64) remained broadly unchanged compared to last year, at 78.8% for men and 71.9% for women.
Unemployment also held steady. Between July and September, the number of unemployed people aged 15–74 averaged 221,000, resulting in a 4.5% jobless rate — identical to the same period last year. The rate stood at 4.6% for men and 4.4% for women.
The average duration of job search was 11.2 months, with nearly half (45.6%) of job seekers unemployed for less than three months, while close to one-third (29.3%) had been searching for at least a year.
According to administrative data from the National Employment Service, the number of registered job seekers fell by 3.6% year-on-year to 220,000 at the end of September, suggesting continued stability in Hungary’s labor market despite slower economic growth.
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