{"id":3427,"date":"2025-01-23T08:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:05:11","slug":"number-of-employees-in-romanias-public-sector-keeps-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Number of employees in Romania&#8217;s public sector keeps rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of employees in Romania&#8217;s public sector rose to 1.306 million in November 2024, reflecting an increase of 5,900 compared to October, according to data from the Ministry of Finance quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/economedia.ro\/numarul-bugetarilor-din-romania-a-continuat-sa-creasca-la-peste-1306-milioane-aproape-6-000-de-persoane-angajate-in-noiembrie.html?mc_cid=ca120db5ad&amp;mc_eid=607bd7d763\" target=\"_blank\">Economedia<\/a>. This marks a continuing trend of growth in the public workforce, with over 64% of positions concentrated in the central public administration.<\/p>\n<p>The central public administration employed 838,316 people, an increase of 4,862 month-on-month, with 618,052 of these positions funded entirely by the state budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romania&#8217;s local public administration employed 467,881 people in November 2024, an increase of 1,038 compared to October. Of these, 286,715 positions were funded entirely from local budgets (+704), while 181,166 positions were financed fully or partially from the institutions&#8217; own revenues (+334).<\/p>\n<p>Institutions funded by the social security budget saw a slight decline, with positions dropping by 23 to 9,215.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, state-subsidized institutions funded through the unemployment insurance budget employed 44,575 people, down by 50 positions. In contrast, institutions financed entirely from their own revenues recorded a significant increase of 2,907 positions, reaching 166,474.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Key ministries with the largest number of employees include:<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Education: 306,924 employees (+1,040);<br \/>\nMinistry of Internal Affairs: 123,893 (+867);<br \/>\nMinistry of National Defence: 79,097 (-245);<br \/>\nMinistry of Finance: 24,523 (+42);<br \/>\nMinistry of Health: 18,154 (+260).<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/boarding1now_info\">Boarding1now<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/stock-photos\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of employees in Romania&#8217;s public sector rose to 1.306 million in November 2024, reflecting an increase of 5,900 compared to October, according to data from the Ministry of Finance quoted by Economedia. This marks a continuing trend of growth in the public workforce, with over 64% of positions concentrated in the central public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}