The number of government employees in Cyprus rose by 0.6% year on year to 55,317 in October, as increases in the security forces and the education service outweighed a decline in the civil service, the Statistical Service said on Wednesday.
The total was 341 higher than in October 2025.
Employment in the security forces grew by 2.8% and in the education service by 0.7%, while the civil service shrank by 0.7%.
Permanent staff were the only category of government employee to increase, rising by 3.5%. Fixed-term employees recorded the steepest drop, falling by 13.1%.
Within individual services, the security forces accounted for both the largest increase and the largest decrease. Hourly-paid staff there rose by 14.2%, while fixed-term employees fell by 97.6%.
The Statistical Service attributed the sharp fall in fixed-term security forces personnel mainly to certain fixed-term contracts that ended and were not extended from August 2025.
Over the January to October period, the average number of government employees was 0.5% higher than in the same period of 2025.
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