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The figure is unusually low for the ski‑season peak, especially compared with the previous year, when Hungarian employment grew by more than 2% between December 2024 and January 2025.
The slowdown coincides with a weakening Austrian labor market, where unemployment rose to 379,771 by the end of January, and the jobless rate reached 8.8%. Among Hungarians, the unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.7%, still lower than that of several other major foreign worker groups in Austria.
Hungarians remain one of the largest foreign labor communities, second only to Germans (137,580 workers), with Romanians in t hird place at 76,572. The data suggests that even traditionally strong seasonal demand could not offset broader economic pressures in Austria’s job market.
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