Employment Growth in Manufacturing Sector: 108,000 New Jobs

Overall Statistics In June 2026, the manufacturing sector recorded 108,000 new jobs, bringing the total number of insured employees to 26,340,445—a 2.5 % increase from the same month last year and a 2 % rise from May.
Insured paid‑wage workers rose to 578,145, up 3 % annually and 2.5 % monthly.
Sectoral Changes The job gains were concentrated in clothing manufacturing (15,104), textile products (8,216), and metal product manufacturing excluding machinery and equipment (11,102).
Clothing manufacturing, however, lost 37,143 jobs year‑on‑year, remaining the sector with the largest decline.
In 23 of the 88 sub‑sectors, insured paid‑wage employment fell annually, with the fastest drop—12.7 %—in the printing and duplication sector.
Geographic Distribution Annual growth was strongest in Ankara (110,838), followed by Istanbul (107,182), Konya (28,194) and Kocaeli (21,723).
The largest annual decline occurred in Hatay, with a loss of 23,075 jobs.
Women Workers Female employment reached 6,225,819 in June 2026, a 2.6 % year‑on‑year increase that pushed the total above six million.
Women accounted for 31.7 % of all insured paid‑wage employment, signaling the end of a two‑year decline and strengthening recovery signals in the manufacturing sector.