The state administration

How many people work for the state. The source is the annual Report on the State of the Administration — one row per year, 2017–2025.

Two numbers that must not be mixed

The same report publishes two different quantities:

  • Establishment posts — approved positions. For 2025: 145,623 approved, 133,275 filled, 12,348 vacant.
  • NSI headcount — persons employed as at December, on NSI's own methodology, from a separate table. For 2025: 98,446.

The gap between 133,275 and 98,446 is 34,829 and means nothing — it is not "unfilled posts". That figure is 12,348 and is published directly. So the two series are shown side by side with their bases named, and no arithmetic is done across them.

There is no money on this page

The report publishes no payroll, so not a single figure here is in euro. Rendered as €0 they would claim the administration costs nothing.

See also where the money goes and the administration sector.

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