Jobs

During the year ending February 2024:

• Job mobility decreased to 8%
• Younger workers are more mobile than older workers, with 13% of people aged 15 to 24 years changing jobs
• 2.1 million people left or lost a job
• The annual retrenchment rate was 1.7%.

Seasonally adjusted estimates for August 2024:

• Total job vacancies were 329,900, a decrease of 5.2% from May 2024.
• Private sector vacancies were 294,100, a decrease of 4.9% from May 2024.
• Public sector vacancies were 35,800, a decrease of 7.5% from May 2024.

During 2020-21:

• There were 20.8 million jobs, up 4.1% on 2019-20
• The LGA with the highest number of jobs was Brisbane, with 1,103,000 jobs
• 5.5 million jobs were held by migrants (who have arrived in Australia since 2000)

For June 2024:

• There were 961,400 multiple job-holders (6.5% of employed people)
• 7.2% of employed women were multiple job-holders, compared to 5.7% of employed men
• Workers aged 20-24 years old were most likely to be working multiple jobs (7.2%)
• People who were a Community and personal service worker in their main job were most likely to be a multiple job-holder (9.8%).

Payroll jobs:

• up 0.3% in the fortnight up to 27 November 2021
• up 0.5% in the previous fortnight (to 13 November 2021)

In the week ending 15 June 2024, payroll jobs:

•  increased by 0.1% in the month since 18 May 2024
•  increased by 1.6% in the year since 17 June 2023