The employed persons in the industry dropped in relation to May (-0.5%), in the seasonally adjusted series, and in relation to June 2013 (-3.1%), accumulating drops of (-2.9%) in the year and of (-1.9%) in the last 12 months. The number of hours paid had also negative rates in these four comparisons: -1.2%, -4.2%, -2.9% and -2.3%, respectively.

The real payroll shrank by 2.4% in relation to May and 0.3% over June 2013, but it accumulates positive rates of 1.3% in the year and of 0.7% in 12 months. The complete publication can be seen at https://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/indicadores/industria/pimes/.

The salaried employed persons in the industry shrank 0.5% in relation to May, in the seasonally adjusted series - the third consecutive negative result, accumulating a 1.6% loss. The quarterly moving average dropped 0.6% and remains falling since April 2013. Also in the seasonally adjusted series, in relation to the previous quarter, the industrial employment fell 0.9% - the sixth consecutive negative rate in this comparison, with a more intense pace of decline than that of the last quarter of 2013 (-0.6%) and of the first of 2014 (-0.3%).

In relation to June 2013, the industrial employment dropped 3.1% - the thirty third negative result in a row in this kind f comparison and the sharpest since November 2009 (-3.7%). Compared to the same periods a year ago, the total of salaried employed persons shrank either in the end of the second quarter of 2014 (-2.7%) and in the cumulative index of the year (-2.3%). The cumulative rate over the last 12 months (-1.9%) kept the downward trend started in September last year (- 1.0%).

Also comparing with June 2013, the industrial employment fell in all fourteen places surveyed. The main negative impact came from São Paulo (-4.2%), pushed by the reduction of the employed persons in fourteen of the eighteen activities, with a highlight to fabricated metal products (-10.9%), textiles (-13.2%) and means of transportation (-5.9%). It is worth mentioning as well the decreases seen in Paraná (-5.0%), Rio Grande do Sul (-4.0%), the Northeast Region (-2.0%), Minas Gerais (-1.7%) and Rio de Janeiro (-3.3%).

By sector, in the monthly index of June, the employed persons shrank in fifteen of the eighteen sectors surveyed, with a highlight to the drops seen in means of transportation (-5.5%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatuses (-7.9%), fabricated metal products (-6.4%), footwear and leather (-7.4%), machinery and equipment (-4.5%), textiles (-6.3%), wearing apparel (-3.9%) and oil refining and ethanol production (-9.1%). On the other hand, the main positive impacts were seen in chemicals (1.9%) and non-metallic mineral products (1.5%).

In the cumulative index of the year, the industrial employment shrank 2.3%, with drops in thirteen of the fourteen places and in fourteen of the eighteen sectors surveyed. São Paulo (-3.5%) marked the main negative impact, followed by Rio Grande do Sul (-4.0%), Paraná (-3.5%), Minas Gerais (-1.7%), the Northeast Region (-1.0%) and Rio de Janeiro (-1.8%). Pernambuco (1.6%) was the only high. The main negative influences came from fabricated metal products (-6.6%) machinery and equipment (-4.9%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatuses (-6.6%), footwear and leather (-7.6%), means of transportation (-3.2%), textiles (-5.1%) and oil refining and ethanol production (-8.4%). The main positive impacts were seen in food and beverages (0.8%) and chemicals (2.0%).

Number of hours paid shrinks 1.2% in relation to May and 2.1% against June of 2013

In June 2014, the number of hours paid to industrial workers, discounted the seasonal influences, contracted 1.2% against the previous month - the second consecutive negative rate, accumulating in this period a loss of 2.1%. As a result, the quarterly moving average index fell 0.7% in the quarter ended in June 2014 against the previous month’s result and kept the downward trend initiated in May 2013. Considering the seasonally adjusted series, quarter over quarter, the number of hours paid in the industry fell 1.2% in the April/June period of 2014 – the fourth consecutive negative rate in this kind of comparison, and showed a sharper pace of decline than the ones seen in the last quarter in the previous year (-0.7%) and in the first one this year (-0.4%).

The number of hours paid to industrial workers, shrinking 4.2% in the monthly index of June 2014, recorded the thirteenth consecutive negative rate in this kind of comparison and the sharpest one since October 2009 (-5,3%). In the comparisons against the same periods in the previous year, the total number of hours paid recorded losses either in the end of the second quarter of 2014 (-3.6%) and in the cumulative index over the first six months of the year (-2.9%). The annualized rate (cumulative index over the last 12 months), moving from -2.0% in February to -2.3% in June 2014, kept the downward trend initiated in September 2013 (-1.0%).

In June, the number of hours paid fell 4.2% in relation to June 2013, with drops in the fourteen places surveyed and in sixteen of the eighteen sectors. The main negative influences came from means of transportation (-8.6%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatuses (-10.6%), machinery and equipment (-5.8%), fabricated metal products (-6.9%), footwear and leather (-8.6%), food and beverages (-1.6%), textiles (-7.5%), wearing apparel (-4.2%) and other products of the manufacturing industry (-3.8%). Conversely, the positive impacts came from non-metallic mineral products (0.9%) and chemicals (0.7%).

Also in relation to June 2013, the main negative influence is due to the drop in São Paulo (-5.3%), with reduction in the hours paid in means of transportation (-9.8%), machinery and equipment (-7.5%), textiles (-14.0%), fabricated metal products (-9.8%), food and beverages (-3.1%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatuses (-5.8%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-9.9%) and oil refining and ethanol production (-7.0%). Other highlights are the negative impacts from Rio Grande do Sul (-5.9%), Paraná (-5.5%), Minas Gerais (-3.7%) and the Northeast Region (-3.3%).

The cumulative index of the year shrank 2.9% in the number of hours paid, with  drops in fourteen of the eighteen sectors surveyed. The sharpest negative impacts were seen in communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-9.5%), fabricated metal products (-7.4%), machinery and equipment (-5.9%), means of transportation (- 4.6%), footwear and leather (-7.9%) and textiles (-6.2%). Conversely, the most relevant positive contribution to the total number of hours paid to the industry workers came from food and beverages (0.5%) and non-metallic mineral products (1.7%). Concerning the areas, thirteen of the fourteen places presented negative rates, with a highlight to the contraction of 4.3% observed in São Paulo, followed by the losses in Rio Grande do Sul (-5.3%), Paraná (-4.6%), the Northeast Region (-2.6%) and the Northeast Region (-2.1%). On the other hand, the North and the Central-West Regions (0.6%) recorded the most relevant positive rate in the first six months of 2014.

Summing up, the total of salaried employed persons and the number of hours paid in the industry kept the lower intensity behavior, with the former accumulating a loss of 1.6% in three months in a row of negative rates, and the latter recording the sharpest negative rate since January 2009 (-1.5%). It is worth highlighting that these results reflect, particularly, the pace decelaration that has stricken the industrial production since the last quarter of 2013. The evolution of the quarterly moving average proves it right.

In relation to June 2013, the salaried employed persons and the number of hours paid in the industry kept the negative rates and the more intense losses since November and October 2009, respectively. Thus, the cumulative index in 2014 kept the negative behavior and intensified the pace of decline over the results of the second semester last year, both the comparisons against the same period a year ago, either in the total of salaried employed persons, which came from -1.5% to -2.3%, or in the number of hours paid (from -1.7% to -2.9%), following the down movement also observed in the industrial output (from -1.2% to -2.6%).

Real payroll shrinks 2.4% in relation to May and 0.3% against June of 2013

In June of 2014, the value of the industrial workers’ real payroll, seasonally adjusted, fell 2.4% compared with May, after two months of positive rates which accumulated an expansion of 2.3%.  The month's highlights are both the mining and quarrying sector (-28.4%), specially influenced by the profit sharing and results of an important enterprise of the sector last May, and by the manufacturing industry (-0.9%), which had negative rates. As a result, the quarterly moving average of the industry overall had a negative change of 0.1% in the quarter ended in June 2014 over the level registered in the previous month and kept the prevailing negative behavior seen since last March. Also in the seasonally adjusted series, in relation to the previous quarter, the value of the real payroll of the industry fell 0.2% in the April/June period in 2014 after two quarters of consecutive highs: the fourth positive rate in 2013 (1.3%) and the first of 2014 (0.5%).

In relation to June 2013, the real payroll fell 0.3% and interrupted five consecutive months of highs in this kind of comparison. In the comparisons against the same periods in the previous year, the value of the real payroll recorded expansion either in the end of the second quarter of 2014 (0.6%) and in the cumulative index over the first six months of the year (1.3%). The cumulative index over the last twelve months, registering a growth of 0.7% in June 2014, posted a pace of decline over January (1.6%), February (1.5%), March (1.4%), April (1.2%) and May (0.9%).

In relation to June 2013, the real payroll had a negative change (-0.3%), with negative results in six of the fourteen places surveyed. The main negative influence was Minas Gerais (-5.5%), pushed to a great extent by the drop in the value of the real payroll of the sector of means of transportation (-31.1%), influenced, by the high base of comparison, since this activity grew 18.3% in June 2013. It is worth mentioning the negative contribution coming from Rio Grande do Sul (-1.1%), mostly influenced by the reduction in the sectors of basic metals (-16.6%), machinery and equipment (-2.8%), footwear and leather (-4.1%) and fabricated metal products (-4.9%). On the other hand, the positive impacts were the North and Central-West Regions (2.7%), Santa Catarina (1.6%) and Paraná (1.1%).

In terms of sectors, in the monthly index of June, the real payroll shrank in fourteen of the eighteen sectors surveyed, with a highlight to means of transportation (2.9%), fabricated metal products (-5.1%), machinery and equipment (-2.6%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatuses (-4.3%), paper and press (-3.3%) and footwear and leather (-4.6%). Conversely, the main positive impacts were seen in food and beverages (6.2%), rubber and plastic (4.7%), chemicals (3.0%) and non-metallic mineral products (3.3%).

In the year, the real payroll rose by 1.3%, with highs in ten of the fourteen places surveyed. The main positive contributions came from São Paulo (1.0%), North and Central-West Regions (4.9%), Santa Catarina (3.2%), Paraná (2.3%) and Minas Gerais (1.2%). In contrast, the main negative impacts came from Bahia (-0.8%), Rio de Janeiro (-0.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (-0.2%) and Ceará (-0.9%).

Among the sectors, the cumulative index of the year, the value of the real payroll advanced in eleven of the eighteen activities surveyed, pushed , principally, by the gains in food and beverages (6.1%), means of transportation (1.7%), non-metallic mineral products (5.8%), rubber and plastic (4.5%), mining and quarrying industries (3.2%), chemicals (1.3%) and wearing apparel (2.4%). On the other hand, the sectors of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-4.0%), machinery and equipment (-1.6%), fabricated metal products (-2.9%) and paper and press (-2.1%) recorded the major negative contributions to the cumulative index of the year.