France paid employment: financial and insurance activities
France paid employment: financial and insurance activities stood at 790.6 thousand persons in 2025, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Annual national accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1949 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Annual national accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid employment (persons) | |||||||||||
| Financial and insurance activities | 790.6 | 786.2 | 778.7 | 767.7 | 761.8 | 750.4 | 746.7 | 742.5 | 740.1 | 743.2 | |
| Real estate | 340.9 | 344.1 | 351.2 | 352.8 | 342.7 | 332.7 | 327.9 | 325.6 | 322.1 | 310.9 |
Understanding france paid employment: financial and insurance activities
This indicator tallies salaried jobs tied strictly to banking, monetary intermediation, insurance underwriting, pension funding, and auxiliary financial services. Independent contractors, partners without formal wages, and self-employed wealth managers are left outside the count. Compared with manufacturing or trade tallies, this series tracks office-based white-collar positions influenced heavily by regulatory changes, consolidation waves within lending institutions, and technological automation in back-office operations.
Interpreting annual headcounts requires accounting for corporate restructurings, outsourcing trends that shift tasks between corporate entities, and periodic classification adjustments mandated by statistical authorities. Annual averages smooth out hiring shifts, making longer-term structural shifts clearer than short-term fluctuations. Analysts should avoid equating headcount movements directly with output changes, as productivity gains in financial technology can expand transaction volumes while reducing staff counts.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this series include self-employed independent financial advisors?
- No, the measure strictly covers salaried workers on formal company payrolls within the sector.
- How does corporate restructuring affect the count?
- Mergers or outsourcing arrangements can shift workers between industrial classifications, creating sudden jumps or drops.
- Are part-time bank tellers counted equally with full-time executives?
- Yes, each individual on a payroll counts as one unit, regardless of contracted weekly hours.