Around 10 percent of Finland's pensioners remain in the workforce to a certain extent, according to the Finnish Centre for Pensions.
While the work undertaken by seniors is often irregular and part-time, more than 150,000 pensioners were employed in 2023, the centre's statistics reveal.
The centre noted that pensioners have increasingly continued to work for some time now.
The reasons behind this trend include an increase in the number of people on partial disability pensions, as well as individuals simply choosing to continue working after reaching retirement age.
More than 80 percent of those on partial disability pensions continued to work, according to the centre. Last year, around 10 percent of fully pensioned individuals continued to work.
"Work remains appealing to quite elderly Finns. Nearly 7,000 pensioners over the age of 80 were employed last year," the centre's development manager, Jari Kannisto, said in a press release.
Regarding those over the age of 68, women are more likely to be employed than their male counterparts, Kannisto noted.
"On the other hand, employment is more common among men over the age of 70, which raises the proportion of working male retirees by a couple of percentage points compared to women," he added.
The majority of people on age-related pensions who work aren't doing it because of pension payments falling short, according to the centre.
"Their pensions are higher than those of other pensioners of the same age. For instance, at the end of last year, the average monthly old-age pension paid to individuals under the age of 68 was 2,100 euros," Kannisto explained.
According to the pension centre's latest data, a total of around 1.3 million people in Finland were receiving old-age pensions, with average monthly payments of 1,948 euros.
