Arbetsförmedlingen procures labour market services from various suppliers in order to help jobseekers find employment or education quickly and effectively.

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Assignment from the Government

We work on behalf of the Swedish Parliament and the Government, in part through annual appropriation directions. Follow the link below to see examples of priority activities that the Government has decided we should work on.

Our assignment

How the 2024 budget was used

Total budget of SEK 76.4 billion comprised of:

unemployment insurance 21.4 billion
activity support, development allowance 17.7 billion
salary subsidies employers 16.1 billion
administration: Arbetsförmedlingen's premises, salaries, etc. 7.5 billion
external providers and suppliers 4.1 billion
national retirement pension charges 3.3 billion
other expenses 1.2 billion
introductions benefits 1 billion
returned to Government budget 4.3 billion.

Statistics from 2024

A total of 1.2 million vacancies were reported to the Job Bank (2023: 1.74 million million).
Arbetsförmedlingen’s website had an average of 8.9 million visits per month (2023: 7.7 million).
90 per cent of jobseekers chose to register themselves via arbetsformedlingen.se (2023: 88 percent).
553,000 people were registered as jobseekers at Arbetsförmedlingen (2023: 530,000). Of these, 277,000 were born abroad (2023: 274 000).
178,000 of these jobseekers had not studied beyond compulsory school (2023: 178,000).
Close to 57,000 had a disability (2023: 53,000).