The company with the most employees in the country is state-owned: Trenes Argentinos has 30,102 workers

Ferrocarriles Argentinos Sociedad del Estado is now the largest provider of registered employment in the country, surpassing all public companies and the largest private company. provides employment to 30102 companies.

Among the major employers in Argentina are some state companies, reflects whether you want the continued increase in public employment over the last decade. The main employer in the private sector today is Personal, with 23,000 employees.

YPF (state control but mixed capital) appears high in the ranking, with 21,320 direct employees (see infographic). The third State employer is the system AFIP-DGI-Customswith approximately 21,000 workers nationwide, as reported by that organization in Clarion.

Ang Argentine Mail it is also among the top employers. It covers 18,000 people, almost double that of Mercado Librewhich now registers, in Argentina, 9,123 employees.

Also stands out National Bank, with 17,460 people. This data is comparable, for example, to another bank with a national presence but private, such as Macro, with exactly half the number of employees: 8,800. Both figures can be found on the Central Bank’s website, which keeps financial system data up to date. Ang Bank Province of Buenos Airesoperating in one province, reports 10,300 employees.

Public bodies are an important source of employment: Anses has approximately 14,000 workers and PAMI 15,000. Aerolineas Argentinas (which lost US $ 835 million last year) uses 11,500 people and AYSA 8,000 more.

Notice one fact that is not small: all these companies are run by people more loyal to Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner than to President Alberto Fernández. Although it must be said that in the area of ​​transportation, to which the Railway belongs, the head of the Chamber of Deputies has weight, Serge Massa.

Ten of the 30 major employers in the country (clearly not counting the public administrations of the Nation and provinces) are directly dependent on the National State.

In addition, it is estimated that 33 state companies (excluding public bodies such as AFIP, public banks, Pami and Anses) use approximately 90,000 people.

But let’s take a look at what’s happening to the largest employer in the country. The rail holding consists of four companies: Trains in Argentina -which is the system that operates passenger trains in the metropolitan area, regional and long-distance trains-has 24,012 employees. They add Argentina is training freight (4,500 employees); Argentine Railways Infrastructure (750 employees) and The Argentine Trains Human Capital (840 workers). If added, they provide a total of 30,102 employees who rely on the railway system. The number is confirmed Clarion through official sources of the holding company.

Ever since Passenger travel fares are substantially subsidizeds -calculates the cost of the ticket covers less than 10% of the actual ticket value– The train system is seriously lacking.

Clarion reported last Sunday that the railroad system accounts for a large portion of public companies ’deficits, which together have operating losses for the equivalent of nearly $ 3,800 million according to official data corresponding to the 2021 accounting close.

The data, published by the Ministry of Economy, says, in the case of the railway holding company, that it has operating red (current revenue versus current costs) which is just more. 100,000 million pesos, equivalent to 1,058 million dollarswhich takes the average official exchange rate last year, which was 95 pesos per dollar.

To deal with this red, the Treasury made transfers for 966 million dollars.

The operating deficit arose because the trains fthey only acted out $ 14,548 million and have a current cost of $ 115,000 million. This difference between what is received and what is spent corresponds to the policy of hyper-subsidized rates. The operating deficit is associated with the fact that the cost of the ticket barely covers 10% of the real cost of the trip. In fact, operating income barely covers 12% of operating costs.

On the other hand, the salary of 30,102 employees represents 65% of the total operating expenses of the state railroad holding company.

The number of employees representing trains has an appearance disproportionate compared with data from other countries. Let’s see why.

On its website, the Argentine State Railway Operator said it has 4,143 kilometers of railways nationwide, connecting 391 stations via 1,893 daily train services. “In this way, we are contributing to the consolidation of the territory under the framework of the Multimodal Transportation System, which carries 1,300,000 passengers daily.” This Friday, the head of Trenes Argentinos, Martin Marinucci inaugurated the Rosario-Cañada de Gómez service. Two daily trains covering 71 kilometers in two and a half hours.

How is it presented to society, for example, the Spanish Railways National Network (RENFE)?. It says it sends 5,000 trains a day, delivers 500 million passengers a year and there are 15,000 employees, half of the trains in Argentina. Renfe has a much wider network than Argentina: 12,244 kilometers of traditional lines and 3,143 of High Speed ​​lines, a network four times the length of Argentina.

the american network amtrak for its part, it has a network of 33,800 kilometers, operates more than 300 trains daily and reaches 500 destinations. There is 19,000 employees, 11,000 less than Argentine trains.

It must be said that both companies, Renfe and Amtrak, receive large sums from the Treasury to stay operational. But the quality of service is higher than the Argentine railroad.

As the numbers indicate, in a country where GDP and private employment are present stagnant for a decade, the State employer has not stopped creating jobs. Although most of these public companies have been bankrupt for many years.