A positive result was recorded in all five major groups of economic activities and in 26 of the 27 Brazilian states. The exception was Rio Grande do Sul, down 2,129 formal jobs.
The number is the gap between 1,914,130 new hirings and 1,756,932 terminations. Formal employment includes benefits and protections like paid vacations, weekly rest days, and a daily limit of eight hours of work.
The amount is the difference between 2,000,202 admissions and 1,844,932 terminations. In the first five months of the year, new posts added up to 856 thousand.
Formal employment was up across all 27 states, which brought formal posts up 0.66 percent from the previous month. Year to date, new jobs stand at 1.8 million.
The balance comes as a result of 2.013 million admissions and 1.685 million layoffs—the best performance for the month in the time series started in 2010.