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Job Vacancies, Australia

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Results of the quarterly job vacancies survey containing estimates of job vacancies classified by industry, sector and state/territory

Reference period

August 2019

Released

26/09/2019

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Main features

August key figures

		Aug 2019	May 2019 to Aug 2019	Aug 2018 to Aug 2019
		'000	% change	% change
Trend Estimates
	Private sector	213.3	-1.8	-2.6
	Public sector	23.2	3.6	10.8
	Private and public sectors	236.5	-1.3	-1.4

Job vacancies, total and private sector - trend
	Total ('000)	Private ('000)
Aug-2011	183.5	166
Nov-2011	181.3	163.9
Feb-2012	180.4	163.7
May-2012	179	163.8
Aug-2012	173.6	160.1
Nov-2012	163.4	151.3
Feb-2013	152.3	140.8
May-2013	143.6	132.4
Aug-2013	139.8	129.1
Nov-2013	140.4	129.9
Feb-2014	142.8	132.1
May-2014	145.7	134.1
Aug-2014	147.6	135.2
Nov-2014	149.5	136.7
Feb-2015	152.7	139.9
May-2015	157	143.9
Aug-2015	162.3	148.5
Nov-2015	167.2	152.2
Feb-2016	170.5	154.6
May-2016	173.4	156.9
Aug-2016	176.8	159.9
Nov-2016	180.8	163.2
Feb-2017	186	167.7
May-2017	193	174.2
Aug-2017	202.3	183.2
Nov-2017	213.1	193.9
Feb-2018	223.9	204.3
May-2018	233.1	212.8
Aug-2018	239.9	219
Nov-2018	242.8	221.7
Feb-2019	242	220.3
May-2019	239.7	217.3
Aug-2019	236.5	213.3

Job vacancies, total and private sector - trend

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August key points

Trend estimates

Total job vacancies in August 2019 were 236,500, a decrease of 1.3% from May 2019.
The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 213,300 in August 2019, a decrease of 1.8% from May 2019.
The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 23,200 in August 2019, an increase of 3.6% from May 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 Data downloads tab.

Tables

1 Job vacancies, states and territories

		Original									Seasonally Adjusted	Trend
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Australia	Australia	Australia
JOB VACANCIES ('000)
2018
	May	77.3	67.6	32.6	11.4	24.1	2.4	3.9	7.1	226.4	235.6	233.1
	August	82.4	72.0	35.1	11.9	27.6	3.0	3.7	7.4	243.0	239.6	239.9
	November	86.3	66.8	38.0	10.9	28.6	3.5	4.0	7.6	245.7	241.9	242.8
2019
	February	87.8	68.3	36.8	9.5	29.3	3.0	3.7	7.5	245.9	243.7	242.0
	May	80.9	64.3	33.9	11.3	25.4	3.1	4.2	7.6	230.8	239.6	239.7
	August	76.2	65.4	39.7	11.5	28.5	3.7	4.4	8.6	237.9	235.1	236.5
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER (%)
2018
	May	-2.0	8.3	-10.7	9.0	8.3	-16.6	4.6	7.2	1.2	6.1	4.1
	August	6.5	6.4	7.8	4.6	14.8	25.5	-4.8	3.4	7.4	1.7	2.9
	November	4.8	-7.2	8.3	-8.6	3.4	17.9	8.0	3.1	1.1	0.9	1.2
2019
	February	1.7	2.3	-3.2	-12.4	2.4	-16.3	-7.1	-1.6	0.1	0.7	-0.4
	May	-7.8	-5.9	-7.8	19.2	-13.2	6.0	13.7	1.2	-6.1	-1.6	-0.9
	August	-5.9	1.6	17.1	1.3	12.2	16.6	4.0	14.1	3.1	-1.9	-1.3
CHANGE FROM CORRESPONDING QUARTER OF PREVIOUS YEAR (%)
2017
	August	10.3	23.5	21.0	-4.6	10.2	31.5	55.9	32.7	16.0	15.8	14.4
2018
	August	7.6	28.7	0.4	30.2	43.3	19.5	-2.9	18.4	16.6	16.8	18.6
2019
	August	-7.6	-9.2	13.1	-3.4	3.1	21.9	18.7	17.1	-2.1	-1.9	-1.4

2 Job vacancies, private sector - states and territories

		Original									Seasonally Adjusted	Trend
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Australia	Australia	Australia
JOB VACANCIES ('000)
2018
	May	71.1	62.3	29.4	10.0	22.2	1.8	3.3	5.5	205.8	215.0	212.8
	August	76.2	66.0	32.2	10.5	25.6	2.4	3.3	5.9	222.1	219.1	219.0
	November	79.7	60.8	35.0	9.3	26.8	3.0	3.3	5.9	223.9	220.3	221.7
2019
	February	81.2	63.1	34.0	8.0	27.7	2.5	3.2	5.7	225.3	222.4	220.3
	May	73.4	58.8	30.9	9.8	23.9	2.6	3.7	5.7	208.6	217.4	217.3
	August	68.7	60.1	36.0	9.7	26.5	3.1	3.7	6.2	213.9	211.5	213.3
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER (%)
2018
	May	-1.9	8.8	-12.5	6.6	6.4	-24.1	3.7	5.7	0.6	6.3	4.2
	August	7.1	5.9	9.3	4.9	15.4	33.2	-0.9	6.7	7.9	1.9	2.9
	November	4.6	-7.8	8.6	-11.1	4.4	25.7	-	-0.1	0.8	0.6	1.2
2019
	February	1.8	3.7	-2.7	-14.1	3.3	-18.9	-2.5	-3.9	0.6	0.9	-0.6
	May	-9.6	-6.8	-9.2	21.8	-13.6	4.1	13.4	0.3	-7.4	-2.2	-1.4
	August	-6.4	2.2	16.4	-0.9	11.1	19.9	1.6	8.6	2.5	-2.7	-1.8
CHANGE FROM CORRESPONDING QUARTER OF PREVIOUS YEAR (%)
2017
	August	8.3	22.8	25.8	-5.8	10.9	28.0	66.7	49.4	15.9	15.8	14.6
2018
	August	9.8	30.5	-0.4	28.2	44.3	14.1	-3.4	26.2	17.9	18.1	19.5
2019
	August	-9.9	-8.9	11.7	-7.8	3.5	27.1	12.4	4.6	-3.7	-3.4	-2.6

- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

3 Job vacancies, public sector - states and territories

		Original									Seasonally Adjusted	Trend
		NSW	Vic.	Qld	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Australia	Australia	Australia
JOB VACANCIES ('000)
2018
	May	6.2	5.4	3.1	1.4	1.9	0.6	0.5	1.6	20.6	20.6	20.3
	August	6.2	6.0	2.9	1.4	2.0	0.6	0.4	1.5	20.9	20.6	20.9
	November	6.6	6.0	3.0	1.5	1.8	0.5	0.7	1.7	21.8	21.5	21.2
2019
	February	6.7	5.3	2.8	1.5	1.6	0.5	0.5	1.8	20.6	21.3	21.6
	May	7.6	5.5	3.0	1.6	1.5	0.6	0.6	1.9	22.2	22.2	22.4
	August	7.5	5.3	3.8	1.8	2.0	0.6	*0.7	2.5	24.0	23.5	23.2
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER (%)
2018
	May	-2.6	2.4	11.9	31.3	38.5	20.3	10.1	12.7	7.6	4.4	3.6
	August	-0.3	12.2	-6.4	2.1	7.5	1.8	-28.9	-8.0	1.6	-0.3	3.1
	November	6.1	-0.1	4.7	10.9	-10.6	-13.6	78.3	16.0	4.3	4.8	1.2
2019
	February	1.4	-12.3	-8.9	-2.3	-10.0	-1.1	-29.6	6.2	-5.7	-1.1	2.3
	May	13.8	4.9	9.1	5.2	-6.0	15.4	15.6	3.9	7.9	4.3	3.3
	August	-1.2	-4.3	24.2	14.6	30.2	2.2	19.7	30.6	8.0	5.9	3.6
CHANGE FROM CORRESPONDING QUARTER OF PREVIOUS YEAR (%)
2017
	August	34.2	31.4	-17.2	6.8	2.8	53.2	-2.4	-0.6	16.2	15.7	12.3
2018
	August	-13.7	11.5	9.4	48.5	31.5	47.6	1.9	-4.9	4.7	4.2	9.7
2019
	August	20.9	-12.1	29.2	30.6	-1.5	0.7	73.6	67.2	14.7	14.5	10.8

* estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution

4 Job vacancies, industry - original

	2018			2019
	May	August	November	February	May	August
	'000	'000	'000	'000	'000	'000
Mining	5.6	5.7	6.2	5.8	5.6	6.4
Manufacturing	11.2	10.3	11.4	12.2	11.5	11.6
Electricity, gas, water and waste services	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.9	2.0	2.2
Construction	14.8	16.0	17.3	19.3	15.7	14.9
Wholesale trade	9.6	9.7	10.4	9.4	9.3	10.4
Retail trade	18.3	21.5	24.5	20.8	19.0	22.1
Accommodation and food services	13.8	17.1	15.1	16.7	14.0	14.5
Transport, postal and warehousing	6.7	7.1	6.9	6.9	6.6	6.4
Information media and telecommunications	3.7	2.9	2.9	2.7	2.5	2.7
Financial and insurance services	11.2	11.7	12.0	12.4	11.4	12.1
Rental, hiring and real estate services	3.5	4.1	4.5	4.1	3.8	4.1
Professional, scientific and technical services	26.9	28.9	24.8	28.3	28.6	25.0
Administrative and support services	45.0	46.7	45.5	44.2	42.5	45.8
Public administration and safety	12.1	10.2	12.0	11.1	11.9	13.2
Education and training	6.4	7.3	6.6	7.4	7.1	6.6
Health care and social assistance	24.0	27.1	29.0	29.4	29.8	27.4
Arts and recreation services	2.9	3.2	3.1	3.2	2.4	3.6
Other services	8.8	11.8	11.6	10.0	7.2	9.0

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August key points

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2 Job vacancies, private sector - states and territories

3 Job vacancies, public sector - states and territories

4 Job vacancies, industry - original

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Main features

August key figures

August key points

Trend estimates

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1 Job vacancies, states and territories

2 Job vacancies, private sector - states and territories

3 Job vacancies, public sector - states and territories

4 Job vacancies, industry - original

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