During the first month of 2020, Sinaloa ranked first nationally in the generation of formal jobs, a situation that had not occurred, for the beginning of the year, since 2011.
According to data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (STPS), last January Sinaloa created 21,248 insured jobs in the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), being the largest generator in the entire country.
After 11 years, the state of Sinaloa did not get the first position, considering only the month of January. In fact, the 21,248 positions is a historical maximum, as a monthly series, since July 1997, when the statistical base of the STPS begins.
The labor strength of Sinaloa came from economic vocation, primary activities.
In the first month of the current year, the sectors, together, of agriculture, livestock, forestry, fishing and housing reported 17,663 new formal jobs.
The other sectors that generated insured jobs in the IMSS were construction (3,046), social and community services (1,373), transformation industries (369), extractive industries (155) and the electrical industry and collection and supply of drinking water (2).
Meanwhile, the sectors related to private consumption and logistics of the Sinaloa entity presented job losses: services for companies, people and the home with 295 casualties; transport and communications with 399, and trade with 666.
In general terms, 23 states created formal jobs in the first month of 2022, compared to December of last year. After Sinaloa, the largest generators were located on the northern border of Mexico, which due to their location benefited from the economic recovery of the United States (its GDP grew 5.7% annualized during 2021, the best result since 1984).
These entities were Baja California (15,159 registrations in Social Security), Chihuahua (15,092), Nuevo León (14,833) and Sonora (13,852).
Other states with labor strength
Other positive balances occurred in Jalisco (11,160), Quintana Roo (10,462), Coahuila (10,091), State of Mexico (9,476), Guanajuato (8,380), Tamaulipas (7,542), Nayarit (5,442), Querétaro (4,481), Hidalgo (3,834), Tabasco (3,762), San Luis Potosí (3,598), Aguascalientes (3,113), Durango (2,384), and Yucatán (2,343).
The rest of the new hires were observed in Baja California Sur (1,914), Colima (1,770), Campeche (472) and Veracruz (26).
While the greatest losses were in Mexico City, with 11,425 casualties per month; Guerrero, with 6,060; Chiapas, with 3,595; Puebla, with 3,316, and Morelos, with 1,172.
The states of Tlaxcala (871), Oaxaca (803), Zacatecas (662) and Michoacán (259) also showed declines.
Deficit balance for 12 entities
Compared to February 2020, before the first effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, 12 entities still exhibited negative balances in their labor market. In other words, they have not yet recovered the jobs lost due to the health contingency.
The territories that are furthest from a labor recovery, at the end of January of this year, are Mexico City (decrease of 145,871 workers), Quintana Roo (28,593), Veracruz (23,804) and Puebla (19,554).
Guerrero (8,865), Oaxaca (6,784) and Michoacán (3,447) are also located on negative land.
At the other extreme, the states that were successful in reactivating the labor sector. The states that best exceeded their pre-pandemic levels were Baja California (78,790 new places), Nuevo León (56,396), Chihuahua (43,530), and Tabasco (39,877).
The states of Jalisco (23,193), State of Mexico (21,017), Sinaloa (19,719), Coahuila (18,893), Querétaro (17,572), Yucatán (11,051), Durango (11,014), Guanajuato (10,326) and Baja also stood out in this section. Southern California (6,891).