Brazil generated 112,334 new formal jobs in January 2026, resulting from 2,208,030 admissions and 2,095,696 dismissals.
The data comes from Novo Caged (General Register of Employed and Unemployed) and was released this Tuesday (3), by the Ministry of Labor and Employment.
In the 12 months, from February 2025 to January 2026, more than 1.22 million new formal positions were created. As a result, the total stock of employment contracts grew by 2.6%, going from 47.34 million to 48.57 million formalized workers.
In January this year, 18 of the 27 Federation Units had positive balances. The highlights were Santa Catarina, with 19 thousand jobs, Mato Grosso (18,731), Rio Grande do Sul (18,421) and Paraná (18,306), each with more than 18 thousand new formal jobs created in the month.
The positive performance was observed in the five regions of the country. The region with the highest number of new formal jobs in January 2026 was the South, with a balance of 55.7 thousand, followed by the Central-West, which registered 35.4 thousand, and the Southeast, with 13.3 thousand vacancies. The Northeast region had a positive balance of 6.1 thousand jobs, while in the North it was 1.7 thousand.
