Employment in Monaco: up 27.6% in ten years

According to figures from Monaco Statistics, the Principality’s jobs market is flourishing, with increasing numbers of women in employment.

One statistic in particular illustrates the unique nature of Monaco’s economy: At the end of 2025, there were 77,866 people employed in the country, far higher than its actual population of around 39,000. The Principality is a major source of work for people living in the  Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of France and in Italy. Employment in Monaco has grown by 27.6% over the past ten years, with almost 17,000 more jobs than in 2016.

145 nationalities

According to Monaco Statistics, the profile of the country’s workforce is also changing. Private-sector employees are now 42.5 years old on average, compared with 41.6 years ten years ago. Over the same period, the proportion aged over 55 has increased by six percentage points. Monaco’s economy continues to employ people of 145 different nationalities. French nationals remain by far the largest group, accounting for 61.6% of private-sector employees, followed by Italians (15%) and Portuguese nationals (6.8%). Monegasque nationals account for just 1.7% of workers in the private sector, a figure that has remained almost unchanged for the past ten years, at around 1,000 people, with most working in the hospitality or gaming sectors.

Women now account for a growing share of private-sector employees (38.9%), although they remain under-represented in some traditionally male-dominated areas such as construction, for example, where less than 10% of workers are women. The same applies to temporary work, where men still account for 86% of employees, mostly on construction sites.

Remote working continues to grow

In a sign of the times, remote working is gradually becoming more established in Monaco’s labour market. At the end of 2025, some 7,317 private-sector employees were working remotely, 544 more than a year earlier. The working-from-home scheme was introduced in 2016 for employees living in France and extended in June 2024 to those living in Italy, but remains relatively uncommon across Monaco’s labour market as a whole. Remote working has also become more common among women, and for the first time since statistical records began, women now make up a narrow majority of employees working remotely (51.6%).