EPFO Adds 16.10 Lakh Net Members During February 2025

New Delhi: The Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) added 16.10 lakh participants in February 2025, provisional payroll information confirmed. The year-on-year research finds a expansion of 3.99% in web payroll additions in comparison to February 2024.

Key highlights of the EPFO Payroll Data (February 2025) are as follows:

EPFO New Subscribers:

EPFO enrolled round 7.39 lakh new subscribers in February 2025. This addition of latest subscribers will also be attributed to rising employment alternatives, larger consciousness of worker advantages, and EPFO’s a success outreach techniques.

EPFO Age Group 18-25 Leads Payroll Addition:

A noticeable side of the information is the dominance of the 18-25 age team, 4.27 lakh new subscribers added within the 18-25 age team, constituting an important 57.71% of the overall new subscribers added in February 2025. This is in consonance with the sooner development which signifies that most people becoming a member of the arranged team of workers are formative years, basically first-time process seekers.

Further, the web payroll addition for the age team 18-25 for February 2025 is roughly 6.78 lakh reflecting a expansion of 3.01% from the former yr in February 2024.

EPFO Rejoined Members:

Approximately 13.18 lakh participants, who had exited previous, rejoined EPFO in February 2025. This determine depicts an important 11.85% year-over-year expansion in comparison to February 2024. These participants switched their jobs and re-joined the institutions coated beneath the ambit of EPFO and opted to switch their accumulations as an alternative of making use of for ultimate agreement thus safeguarding long-term monetary well-being and lengthening their social safety coverage.

EPFO Growth in Female Membership:

Around 2.08 lakhs new feminine subscribers joined EPFO in February 2025. It depicts year-over-year expansion of 1.26% in comparison to February 2024.

Further, the web feminine payroll addition right through the month stood at round 3.37 lakh, an important yr over yr expansion of 9.23% in comparison to February 2024. The expansion in feminine member additions is indicative of a broader shift against a extra inclusive and various team of workers.

EPFO State-wise Contribution:

State-wise research of payroll information denotes that the highest 5 states/ Usaconstitute round 59.75% of web payroll addition, including a complete round 9.62 lakh web payroll right through the month. Of all of the states, Maharashtra is main via including 20.90% of web payroll right through the month. The states/Usaof Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Haryana, Delhi, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh in my opinion added greater than 5% of the overall web payroll right through the month.