MAY KEY FIGURES

		May 2018	Feb 2018 to May 2018	May 2017 to May 2018
		'000	% change	% change
Trend Estimates
	Private sector	214.0	4.8	23.0
	Public sector	20.1	2.9	6.7
	Private and public sectors	234.2	4.6	21.4

Source(s): Job Vacancies, Australia (cat. no. 6354.0)

MAY KEY POINTS


TREND ESTIMATES

• Total job vacancies in May 2018 were 234,200, an increase of 4.6% from February 2018.
• The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 214,000 in May 2018, an increase of 4.8% from February 2018.
• The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 20,100 in May 2018, an increase of 2.9% from February 2018.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
August 2018	27 September 2018
November 2018	9 January 2019

ROUNDING

Estimates of percentage change shown in this release have been calculated using unrounded estimates, and may be different from, but are more accurate than, movements obtained from calculating percentage change using the rounded estimates presented in the Tables and the datacubes on the Downloads tab.


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