‘Tightness’: Grim sign for Aussie jobs

Payroll jobs have continued to climb barely, indicating there may be nonetheless a tightness within the labour market coupled with disruptions as a result of sickness and main climate occasions.

There was a rise of simply 0.7 per cent within the month to November 12, based on the newest information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

“The slower growth rate this year continues to point to tightness in the labour market, coupled with disruptions from people being sick and the impact of major weather events,” ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis stated on Thursday.

“With almost three full years of payroll jobs data, we can see some of the recurring weekly seasonal changes in the labour market.

“The most recent changes in 2022 are more like 2020 than 2021, given the labour market was recovering from the Delta period lockdowns at this time last year.”

Monthly percentage change in payroll jobs, by state and territory. Picture: ABS
Camera IconMonthly proportion change in payroll jobs by state and territory. ABS Credit: Supplied

The information covers the interval earlier than the labour market hits its seasonal peak in payroll jobs yearly, which is often within the first half of December.

Payroll jobs had been up in each jurisdiction, with the most important enhance in South Australia (up 1.2 per cent) and the smallest in Queensland (up 0.2 per cent).

The ABS famous South Australia’s enhance partly mirrored the marginally later college time period begin, with payroll jobs in training and coaching making up greater than 40 per cent of the rise over the month.

Ten out of 19 industries skilled an increase in payroll jobs.

The ABS additionally launched information on Thursday displaying tourism gross home product climbed 26.4 per cent to $35.1bn in chain quantity phrases in 2021-22 however remained beneath the 2018-19 peak of $61.9bn.

Tourism’s contribution to economic system GDP rose to 1.6 per cent however remained beneath the 2018-19 stage of three.1 per cent.

Domestic tourism consumption was up $5.3bn to $85bn, whereas worldwide tourism elevated by $5.6bn to $6.4bn.

Tourism-filled jobs went as much as 501,400 however was nonetheless in need of the 2018-19 peak of 701,100.