Overview
- STPS’s methodological update reports 26.5 million people in formal employment, equal to 44.6% of the employed population, leaving informality at 55.4% or about 33 million workers.
- IMSS closed 2025 with a record 22,517,076 formal positions and annual growth of 278,697 jobs, even as the registry of employers fell by 25,667 to 1,029,280, the steepest annual drop on record.
- Private analysis highlights the concentration of employer losses among micro firms, including declines of 7,408 with one worker and 13,883 with two to five workers, signaling structural fragility.
- Mexico City ended 2025 with 3,675,580 IMSS-affiliated workers, adding 196,226 jobs for a 5.64% annual increase and maintaining the highest insured workforce in the country.
- The platforms pilot identified 912,000 workers, yet only 206,521 (22.6%) met the income threshold for full IMSS coverage, with the rest limited to risk insurance as authorities stress no observed hit to platform employment.