Mexico formal employment record October 2026, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico City): Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo said during her morning press conference on Monday that Mexico reached a historic record of 23,088,353 formal jobs in October 2026. The figures were previewed ahead of their official publication by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), expected around midday.
Sheinbaum presented the results as part of the monitoring of the national labor market, detailing increases recorded over the month and throughout the year. According to the information she presented, formal jobs rose by 10,061 between September and October.
Year to date in 2026, 571,277 jobs have been created.
The president also reported that the annual comparison between October 2025 and October 2026 shows a positive variation of 1.3 percent in worker registrations with the IMSS, an increase of 26,299 jobs in October 2026 compared with the same month a year earlier.
Quoting her remarks directly, Sheinbaum said: “We reached a maximum figure of formal jobs in this past month, the month of October: 23 million 88,353, the highest figure in the entire history.”
The IMSS is expected to publish the official data for the period later the same day, including a breakdown of the affiliated jobs. Until then, the figures remain those announced by the federal government.
