In January 2013, the total of salaried employed persons in the industry remained stable (0.0%) in relation to December 2013 (in the seasonally adjusted series), after registering 0.1% in November and -0.3% in December. With those results, the index of the quarterly moving average posted a negative change of 0.1% in the quarter ended in January against the previous month's level, after having held steady for five months in a row. The industrial employment contracted 1.1% in the monthly index of January 2013 - the 16th consecutive negative result in this kind of comparison, and kept the falling pace next to the one seen in the last quarter of 2012 (-1.2%) - all comparisons against the same period a year ago. The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months), recording a -1.4% drop in January 2013, kept the downward trend begun in February 2011 (3.9%).The complete publication can be accessed at  www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/indicadores/industria/pimes/. 

In the comparison with January 2012, industrial employment contracted 1.1% in January 2013, with drops in the volume of workers in ten of the 14 places surveyed.  The main negative impact occurred in the Northeast region (-4.8%), pushed by the negative rates in 14 of the 18 sectors surveyed, with a highlight to food and beverages (-7.0%), footwear and leather (-5.7%), petroleum refinement and alcohol production (-14.0%), apparel (-4.3%), mining and quarrying industries (-9.9%) and textiles (-4.8%).  Other important negative impacts came from São Paulo (-1.0%), Rio Grande do Sul (-3.1%), Pernambuco (-9.0%) and Bahia (-4.2%).  The first was influenced by the decrease seen in the sectors of fabricated metal products (-8.1%), exiles (-10.4%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-11.0%), transportation means (-4.1% ), apparel (-4.4%) and paper and press (-1.7%). Rio Grande do Sul recorded losses in footwear and leather (-6.8%), machinery and equipment (-6.9%), transportation means (-5.3%), rubber and plastic (-8.6%) communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-9.5%), apparel (-16.8%) and textiles (-12.2%).  Conversely, Pernambuco was pushed by the sector of food and beverages (-16.0%) and Bahia contracted in footwear and leather (-18.9%). Paraná (2.1%) had the most relevant positive contribution on the industrial employment, with a highlight to the sectors of food and beverages (4.0%), electric-electronic and communication machinery and apparatus (10.3%), textiles (15.6%) and chemicals (8.2%).

Among the sectors, the salaried employed persons receded in 12 of the 18 sectors surveyed. The main negative pressures came from apparel (-7.2%), textiles (-5.1%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-4.2%), footwear and leather (-3.4%), transportation means (-2.0%) and wood (-5.6%). On the other hand, the main positive impacts were seen in the sectors of food and beverages (1.6%) and rubber and plastic (2.7%).

Number of hours paid is -0.3% lower than in December

In January 2013, the number of hours paid to industrial workers, discounted the seasonal influences, retracted 0.3% against December 2012, the third consecutive negative rate in this kind of comparison, accumulating in this period a loss of 0.7%.  In the seasonally adjusted series, the quarterly moving average index, posting a negative change of 0.2% between the quarters ended in December and January, interrupted the sequence of three positive results: October (0.1%), November (0.1%) and December (0.2%). 

The number of hours paid recorded a decrease of 1.4% in comparison with January 2013, the 17th consecutive negative rate in this kind of comparison and sped up the falling pace  in relation to the end of the fourth quarter of 2012 (-1.1%) - both comparisons made against the same period in the previous year.  The rates were negative in 11 of the 14 places and in 12 of the 18 surveyed sectors. Among the sectors, the main negative influences came from apparel (-7.8%), footwear and leather (-5.9%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-5.3%), machinery and equipment (-2.9%), textiles (-4.6%), wood (-6.9%) and paper and press (-2.6%). Food and beverages (1.6%) recorded the main positive result this month. 

Among the places, month-on-month, the Northeast region (-4.0%) posted the main negative influence, pushed by the reduction in the number of hours paid in the sectors of food and beverages (-5.9%), apparel (-4.4%), petroleum refinement and alcohol production (-9.9%), mining and quarrying industries (-8.4%), rubber and plastic (-6.7%). The negative impacts were registered by Rio Grande do Sul (-4.2%), due to drops in footwear and  leather (-13.0%), machinery and equipment (-7.7%), rubber and plastic (-10.0%) and communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-11.5%); by the North and Central-West regions (-3.2%), due to the drops in communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-15.3%), means of transportation (-17.0%), wood (-11.3%) and non-metallic mineral products (-10.1%); by São Paulo, due to falls coming from fabricated metal products(-7.0%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-11.1%) and textiles (8.7%); and by Pernambuco (-7.6%), attributable to the lowest number of hours paid in the sector of food and beverages (-12.9%).  Paraná (1.7%) exerted the main positive contribution to the total number of hours paid, pushed to a great extent by the growth in the sectors of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (15.6%) and food and beverages (4.0%).

The  annual rate (cumulative index in the last 12 months), recording a contraction of 1.9% in January 2013, repeated November’s and December's result and kept the downward trend started in February of 2011 (4.5%).

Real Payroll drops 5.0% in January

In January of 2013, the value of the industrial workers’ real payroll seasonally adjusted retracted 5.0% if compared to the previous month - the second consecutive negative rate in this kind of comparison, recording in this period a loss of 6.9% and almost removing the 7.9% advance seen last November. Both mining and quarrying and the manufacturing industry recorded negative rates for the second month in a row, after marking sharp rises in November: 8.3% and 7.4%, respectively. In the seasonally adjusted series, the quarterly moving average index posted a positive change (0.1%) between the quarters ended in December and January and kept the upward trend started last September.

The value of the real payroll rose 0.9% in the comparison with January 2012 , the 37th consecutive positive result in that kind of comparison, but a lot slighter than the one observed in the last quarter last year (7.5%) - both comparisons against the same period a year ago. The results were positive in 11 of the 14 places surveyed. The highest positive influences were seen in Rio de Janeiro (7.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (4.6%), the North and Central-West regions (4.2%), the Northeast region (1.7%) and Santa Catarina (1.1%). In those places, the activities that most contributed positively to the rise in the value of the payroll were: mining and quarrying industries (11.6%), rubber and plastic (32.0%), machinery and equipment (17.6%), food and beverages (10.9%) and fabricated metal products (17.6%) in the industry in Rio de Janeiro; food and beverages (16.4%), fabricated metal products (10.6%) and transportation means (5.1%), in the industrial sector in Rio Grande do Sul; food and beverages (10.6%) and mining and quarrying industries (12.0%), in the North and Central-West regions; chemicals (9.7%), non-metallic mineral products (10.3%) and basic metals (19.4%) in the Northeastern industrial sector; and rubber and plastic (9.1%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (8.5%), food and beverages (2.5%), textiles (4.2%), chemicals (11.7%) and transportation means (12.7%), in Santa Catarina. On the other hand, São Paulo (-0.9%) and Minas Gerais (-1.6%) recorded the greatest negative impacts this month, mostly influenced by the sectors of basic metals (-23.2%), transportation means (-2.5%), fabricated metal products  (-7.9%), apparel (-13.4%) and textiles (-8.2%), in the first place, and of transportation means (-13.4%) and basic metals (-10.4%) in the last.

Among the sectors, in the monthly index of January 2013, the value of the real payroll was up in ten of the 18 sectors surveyed, with a highlight to food and beverages (4.9%), chemicals (6.1%), rubber and plastic (7.0%),  mining and quarrying industries (5.9%) , machinery and equipment (1.6%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (2.7%) and non-metallic mineral products (2.3%).  The main negative impacts were seen in transportation means (-3.5%), basic metals (-8.5%) and apparel (-7.1%).

The annual rate (cumulative index over the last 12 months), growing 4.1% in January 2013, registered a slight reduction of growth intensity over December (4.4%).