France market non-agricultural employment excluding Mayotte
France market non-agricultural employment excluding Mayotte stood at 18,096,576 persons in Q2 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Payroll employment table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q4 2001 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Payroll employment table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
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| Market non-agricultural sectors | |||||||||||
| France excluding Mayotte | 18,096,576 | 18,114,444 | 18,121,643 | 18,142,405 | 18,160,198 | 18,154,451 | 18,175,462 | 18,208,427 | 18,200,053 | 18,228,754 |
Understanding france market non-agricultural employment excluding Mayotte
Aggregate wage-earning jobs operating across market-driven industries throughout France, deliberately excluding the island territory of Mayotte, form the basis of this macroeconomic count. The scope encompasses private commercial enterprises, industrial plants, building contractors, and market service providers while omitting public administration, non-market services, and traditional agricultural holdings. Unlike departmental breakdowns, this national aggregate pools all mainland and specified overseas department figures into a single total, eliminating regional administrative boundaries while maintaining the exclusion of the specified overseas territory. Both permanent and temporary contracts feature in the enumeration, provided the worker appears on a formal commercial payroll during the reference window.
Interpreting this broad indicator necessitates accounting for nationwide collective bargaining shifts, statutory holiday alignments, and recurring weather-related construction slowdowns that generate predictable quarterly variations. Early releases incorporate statistical estimations for late-reporting firms, leading to regular revisions in subsequent publications. Analysts generally favor year-on-year comparisons to neutralize annual seasonality, whereas contrasting this metric with total workforce measures requires accounting for self-employed individuals and civil servants who reside outside this commercial payroll perimeter.
Frequently asked questions
- Why is Mayotte specifically excluded from this national employment series?
- Gradual integration into standard social security and tax reporting frameworks led to historical series breaks that prompted a separate geographic perimeter.
- Does this series include self-employed workers in France?
- No, independent operators, freelancers, and sole proprietors are entirely excluded from salaried payroll counts.
- How frequently are preliminary estimates for this national aggregate revised?
- Figures undergo updates across subsequent quarters as more complete employer social security declarations become available.