Overview
- Official SIPA figures show Mendoza’s private registered employment fell 0.6% between November 2023 and November 2025, yet the province ranked third nationwide.
- Neuquén (+3.4%) and Río Negro (+0.7%) were the only provinces that added formal private jobs in that period, a trend linked by analysts to activity from Vaca Muerta.
- Most districts lost jobs, including Buenos Aires (-3.4%), Córdoba (-2.4% to -2.5% in separate reports), Santa Fe (-2.5%), Chaco (-8.4%), Misiones (-8.8%) and Santa Cruz (-16.2%).
- Cornejo credited the ranking to provincial management and President Javier Milei’s administration, drawing criticism on X from users and specialists such as Nicolás Dvoskin and Pablo Gerchunoff.
- The Mendoza government defended the message as highlighting resilience, with an adviser noting roughly 1,000 jobs lost out of about 250,000, while recent INDEC data put provincial unemployment at 5.4% below the 6.3% national urban average.