Over 300,000 persons employed in 2017

A total of 300,474 people were employed in 2017 through the National Workforce Employment Agency (ANOFM), the agency says in a press release issued on Thursday for AGERPRES. 

Among the persons employed, 102,035 are over 45 years old, 76,952 are aged between 35 and 45 years, 69,174 are between 25 and 35 years, and 52,313 represent young people under 25 years of age. 

According to the quoted source, most people employed are men, respectively 169,623. Regarding the place of residence, 164,670 people come from the urban area. 

Most people for whom a job was identified have high school education (96,264), vocational one (73,838), secondary one (66,462) and 32,664 are university graduates. 

At the national level, most people employed were in Bucharest (20,779) and in the counties of Timis (20,150), Suceava (18,350), Neamt (13,574) and Hunedoara (13,289). 

At the same time, in 2017, as many as 660,700 persons benefited from social assistance.