This document was added or updated on 06/11/2020.
Analysis
Trend
In trend terms the total number of jobs in Australia increased by 92,100 (or 0.6%), made up of 3,700 job vacancies and 88,400 filled jobs.
Filled jobs in Australia grew by 0.6% in the March quarter 2019, following a 0.7% rise in the December quarter 2018. Filled jobs grew 2.7% through the year in trend terms.
The number of main jobs grew by 86,500 (an increase of 0.7%) while secondary jobs grew by 2,000 (an increase of 0.2%) in the March quarter 2019.
The total number of employed persons increased by 0.7% to 13.2 million in the March quarter 2019.
The total number of hours actually worked increased by 0.8% to 5.4 billion hours and the total labour income increased by 1.1% to $251,593 million.
Seasonally adjusted
Jobs
Filled jobs in Australia grew by 0.2% in the March quarter 2019, following a 1.3% rise in the December quarter 2018. Filled jobs grew 2.8% through the year in seasonally adjusted terms.
The total number of jobs in Australia increased by 34,000 (or 0.2%), made up of 2,600 job vacancies and 31,500 filled jobs.
The number of main jobs grew by 69,600 (an increase of 0.5%), while secondary jobs fell by 38,200 (a decrease of 3.8%) in the March quarter 2019.
Persons
The total number of employed persons increased by 0.7% to 13.2 million in the March quarter 2019.
There were 677,800 unemployed persons in the March quarter 2019, an increase of 16,100 persons from December quarter 2018.
There were 1,068,700 underemployed persons in the March quarter 2019, a decrease of 47,300 persons from December quarter 2018.
Volumes
The total number of hours actually worked increased by 0.8% to 5.4 billion hours; and the total number of hours paid increased 0.8% to 5.7 billion hours.
Payments
Total labour income increased by 1.3% to $251,246 million.
Total compensation of employees increased by 1.3% to $228,563 million, and labour income from self-employment increased by 1.1% to $22,683 million.
Over the same period, total labour costs increased by $3,382 million (1.3%) to $266,778 million.
Ratios
Average income per person increased by 0.5% to $18,998 in the March quarter 2019.
Average hours worked per job increased by 0.6% to 378 hours. Average hours worked per job is the hours actually worked divided by all filled jobs.
Average labour cost per hour paid remained the same at $46.
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