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 2025 budget was used

Pie chart of the 2025 budget. The figures are listed in the body text below the image.

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Total budget of SEK 76.4 billion comprised of:

unemployment insurance: 24.2 billion
activity grant and development allowance: 18.2 billion
wage subsidies: 11.7 billion
administration: 7.5 billion
programmes and efforts: 6.1 billion
new-start jobs: 3.5 billion
introduction benefit: 0.9 billion
4.3 billion was returned

Statistics from 2025

1.04 million job openings were reported to the Job Bank (2024: 1.2 million).
Arbetsförmedlingen’s website had an average of 10 million visits per month (2024: 9 million).
A total of 905,000 people (48 percent women, 52 percent men) were registered as job seekers with Arbetsförmedlingen (2024: 889,000). Of these, 315,000 were foreign-born (2024: 320,000).
On average, approximately 367,000 people (48 percent women, 52 percent men) were registered as unemployed each month in 2025 (2024: 357,000).
In 2025, an average of 152,000 people (51 percent women, 49 percent men) were registered as unemployed for more than 12 months each month (2024: 143,000).
Just under 258,000 (54 percent men, 46 percent women) of the unemployed had at most a pre-secondary education (2025: 262,000).
172,000 registered individuals (54 percent men, 48 percent women) had a disability (2024: 167,000).