In 2020, the public service grew by 33,700 agents to reach, including assisted contracts, the bar of 5.7 million people employed in the three areas (State, hospital and territorial), according to data published by INSEE.
This new increase in public staff represents an increase of 0.6% in one year, ie double the increases recorded in the two previous years.
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The number of assisted contracts having actually decreased by 15,900 in the three public services, the number of agents has swelled by nearly 50,000 people in one year.
Over the first three years of Macron's five-year term, the number of public jobs (including assisted contracts) has exploded by more than 170,000, going against the campaign promise in 2017 to cut 120,000 civil servant positions in five years.
A continuous increase
In detail, the workforce increased as much in 2020 in the State (+20,600 agents, an increase 8 times greater than that of 2019) than in the hospital sector (+ 21,500 agents, i.e. an increase 6 times greater than in 2019). 'one year before).
The workforce in the ministries fell by 0.2%, mainly in Bercy (- 3400, or - 2.5% of employment in the economic and financial ministries).
As in 2019, the number of contract workers increased in public establishments (+ 34,100 jobs), in particular teaching premises (+ 26,300), more than compensating for the drop in the number of assisted contracts.
In the hospital public service, employment increased in medico-social establishments (+ 1.4%) and above all, due to the health crisis, in hospitals (+ 1.9%).
The increase observed is mainly marked for contract workers, whose number jumped by 23,500, or + 9.5%.
Only the territorial sphere has seen its workforce drop a little, from 8,400 people.
