The country had 7.875 million active formal business entities in 2022, employing 47.869 million people, 36.5 million of whom were salaried. The data comes from the Demography of Companies and Entrepreneurship Statistics 2022 survey, released this Thursday (5) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
The average monthly salary received by those employed was R$3,103 75. The mass of income paid by these companies totaled R$1.448 trillion.
Within this universe of active companies, there were a record 2.648 million of them as employers, which concentrated all 36.5 million existing employees and generated R$1.439 trillion in wages, with an average monthly salary of R$3,108 66.
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In 2022, there were 405.6 thousand births of employing companies, the highest number of openings in the historical series, which began in 2017. The birth rate, which shows the proportion of openings in relation to the total number of employing companies, reached 15.3%, also the highest in the series.
The activity that contributed most to the creation of companies was Commerce (39.4%), also responsible for the largest share of active employer companies (42.7%).
The Accommodation and food activity appears in second place among births (9.9%), but third among active companies (8.0%). Manufacturing industries were responsible for the third largest number of births, 8.7%, and the second largest number of active companies, 11.2%.
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“The profile of companies that were born in 2022 is very similar to the stock of existing companies, taking into account the main economic activities”, pointed out Thiego Ferreira, manager of Analysis and Dissemination of the IBGE survey, in a note.
In 2022, 92.7% of new employer companies had 1 to 9 employees, while 6.6% had 10 to 49 employees, and 0.7% had 50 or more.
The birth rate also highlights the greater dynamism of smaller companies compared to others: the birth rate was 17.6% among those that employed up to 9 employees; 6.2% in the range of 10 to 49 employees; and 3.5% in the group of 50 or more employees.
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Mortality falls
The IBGE implemented changes in the research methodology, including the one that determines the death of companies, now measured over a set of three years: the death of a company occurs when it was active in the reference year, but not in the two years following.
Therefore, the deaths shown with data from 2022 refer to the year 2020.
In the 2022 study, 210,700 deaths from employer companies were identified in 2020, the lowest result in the historical series that began in 2015.
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The death rate was 9.0%, also the lowest percentage in the series. These companies had approximately 774.0 thousand employees, which corresponded to 24% of the total number of employees in the reference year.
High growth companies
The survey also showed that there were 70,032 entrepreneurial companies in the country, which employed 8.0 million employees and paid R$317.4 billion in salaries and other remunerations in 2022, with an average monthly salary of 2.8 minimum wages .
High-growth companies, called entrepreneurial companies, are those with at least 10 salaried employees that have increased hiring at more than 10% per year for three years.
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