The number of nonregular workers employed by South Korean financial firms fell 11 percent last year from a year earlier, but that of regular workers remained nearly unchanged, industry data showed Thursday.

A total of 26,833 temporary workers, including part-timers and contract workers, were employed by local 87 financial firms as of end-2014, compared with 30,149 non-regular workers a year earlier, according to the data compiled by corporate tracker CEO Score.