“Unemployment rate in Lithuania already from 2023 December. has grown a bit”, said T. Toleikis during the presentation of the labor market overview on Friday.
“According to the data of the population survey, forecasts are becoming more and more optimistic regarding the unemployment rate. Fewer and fewer residents believe that the unemployment rate will increase,” he explained.
He reminded that unemployment reached 9% in January of this year, and 8.3% in February.
The head of CVbankas.lt mentions that the Bank of Lithuania, the Ministry of Finance and major financial companies do not change their forecasts and predicts that in 2024 the unemployment rate will be between 6.5 percent. and 7.2 percent
“I would say that the overall projected unemployment rate remains about the same as before.” And for the coming years, it will decrease moderately – both in 2025 and 2026,” he explained.
According to the Employment Service, on April 1 according to data, 1.45 million people worked in Lithuania. persons – 1.5 thousand. or 0.1 percent more than March 1
At that time, 166 thousand were registered in the country. unemployed – 0.2 percent. or 0.3 thousand persons more than a month ago. Registered unemployment in the country did not change during the month and reached 9.3 percent.
Most job offers are for production specialists
According to the CEO of CVbankas.lt, in 2024 during the first quarter, the number of job offers on the portal reached 30.3 thousand. and was 0.7 percent. lower than in 2023 at the beginning According to him, the most wanted are specialists in the field of production – 3,659 job advertisements, sales and engineering fields are also exceptional.
“The sales category stands out for its strength, which shows a stable growth trend quarter after quarter. A near record number of sales professionals are currently being sought. There is a similar trend in the engineering category,” he explained.
According to him, 13 percent per year. job offers in the field of production have increased. Many new positions appeared in medicine, where the number of advertisements increased by 18 percent. in the field of real estate – 16 percent.
At that time, the volume of export job offers shrank the most – 41 percent, media/communications – 33 percent. and personnel management – 26 percent.
T. Toleikis also mentioned that currently 1.4 percent job ads offer work from home, and 5.8 percent. the ads offer the possibility to agree on this.
“The conclusion would be the following – job offers for those who work full time from home are decreasing and they are stabilizing, while the trend of partial work from home does not show any tendency to decrease,” said T. Toleikis.
The salary expected by those who want to work abroad has decreased
According to CVbankas.lt, those who want to work in the field of information technology expect the highest salaries – 3,353 euros before taxes (gross), employers are ready to pay them an average of 3,069 euros per month.
In second place are managers who would like 3,035 euros, and they are offered around 2,770 euros. In the third – energy specialists, who would reach an average gross salary of 2,977 euros, while they are offered 2,412 euros.
People who want to work in trade and consulting expect the lowest salary – 1,375 euros before taxes. They are offered an average salary of 1,154 euros per month in advertisements. Customer service, where 1,563 euros per month is expected and 1,397 euros is offered, and food production, where 1,644 euros are expected and 1,887 euros per month are among the three lowest desired salaries by job category.
T. Toleikis notices that the salaries desired by the candidates have increased by 8.5 percent since last year in Vilnius. and reached 2147 euros on average, in Kaunas – 11.6 percent. (1938 euros), in Klaipėda – 10.4 percent, (1801 euros), in Šiauliai – 19.4 percent. (1968 euros), in Panevėžys – 10.7 percent. (1,668 euros), while those working at home expect 8.7 percent. higher wages, reaching an average of 2,604 euros.
However, the ambitions of candidates wishing to work abroad decreased, their desired salary fell by 4.8 percent. up to 3075 euros. It is also the only desired remuneration, which is lower than the employers’ offer – as much as 4,213 euros.
The activity of employees and employers is growing
Also, according to T. Toleikis, the activity of job seekers using the portal is growing – the first in 2024. 26.8 thousand were created during the quarter. new resumes – 10.2 percent. more than last year. According to him, this could have been influenced by the increased number of foreigners in Lithuania and the increased level of unemployment.
“The activity of citizens of foreign countries grew a little faster than that of Lithuanian citizens,” said T. Toleikis.
“It can be assumed that job seekers are returning to the labor market more actively. Because we have had stagnation since the pandemic period,” he explained.
According to him, the number of citizens from Ukraine and Belarus seeking employment is currently increasing, while the number of Russian citizens is decreasing. At that time, according to him, every 10 job seekers did not come from Ukraine, Belarus or Russia.
“Those who marked another citizenship have increased several times and they make up 8.4 percent. from all the candidates,” he asserted.
The activity of employers is also growing, which according to CVbankas.lt data increased by 1 percent in the first quarter. compared to the same period in 2023. and aimed at 2,312 employers. The activity of the candidates, according to T. Toleikis, contributes to the record number of views of resumes, which reached about 2 million. of which 1495 thousand of active candidacy, and 472 thousand. – passive.
