According to survey data from Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), commerce sector sales recently rose 5.2 percent. A recent Manpower Survey found employers in the restaurants and hotels sector were extremely optimistic about the employment outlook with 20 percent expressing positive hiring intentions. In addition, Manpower reported that net employment in the wholesale and retail trade sector increased three percentage points to 11 percent.

Opportunities for marketing professionals exist in Spain. For someone like a junior product manager faced with a choice between working in France and Spain, the best financial decision might be for Spain. For professional level jobs, one could earn about eight percent more in Spain than in France, and the gap grows as one progresses. There are a number of reasons for this, not least is the pace of economic development in Spain. The Spanish economy has grown rapidly over the past 20 years leading to shortages of skills in many white-collar functions. As a result salaries have risen to attract employees. Spanish universities can barely keep pace with the country's demand for 21st-century professionals.

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