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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

November 2019

Released

8/01/2020

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Main features

November key figures

		Nov 2019	Aug 2019 to Nov 2019	Nov 2018 to Nov 2019
		'000	% change	% change
Trend Estimates
	Private sector	212.7	-0.9	-4.0
	Public sector	24.4	4.3	15.2
	Private and public sectors	237.1	-0.4	-2.3

Job vacancies, total and private sector - trend
	Total (1'000)	Private (1'000)
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	152.3
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	193.1	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	240	219.1
Nov-2018	242.8	221.6
Feb-2019	241.9	220.3
May-2019	239.8	217.4
Aug-2019	238.1	214.7
Nov-2019	237.1	212.7

Job vacancies, total and private sector - trend

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November key points

Trend estimates

Total job vacancies in November 2019 were 237,100, a decrease of 0.4% from August 2019.
The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 212,700 in November 2019, a decrease of 0.9% from August 2019.
The number of job vacancies in the public sector was 24,400 in November 2019, an increase of 4.3% from August 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 section.

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
	August	82.4	72.0	35.1	11.9	27.6	3.0	3.7	7.4	243.0	239.9	240.0
	November	86.3	66.8	38.0	10.9	28.6	3.5	4.0	7.6	245.7	241.7	242.8
2019
	February	87.8	68.3	36.8	9.5	29.3	3.0	3.7	7.5	245.9	243.6	241.9
	May	80.9	64.3	33.9	11.3	25.4	3.1	4.2	7.6	230.8	239.5	239.8
	August	76.2	65.4	39.7	11.5	28.5	3.7	4.4	8.6	237.9	235.6	238.1
	November	83.6	64.4	40.1	11.5	27.8	3.6	3.5	8.8	243.4	239.4	237.1
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER (%)
2018
	August	6.5	6.4	7.8	4.6	14.8	25.5	-4.8	3.4	7.4	1.9	2.9
	November	4.8	-7.2	8.3	-8.6	3.4	17.9	8.0	3.1	1.1	0.7	1.2
2019
	February	1.7	2.3	-3.2	-12.4	2.4	-16.3	-7.1	-1.6	0.1	0.8	-0.4
	May	-7.8	-5.9	-7.8	19.2	-13.2	6.0	13.7	1.2	-6.1	-1.7	-0.9
	August	-5.9	1.6	17.1	1.3	12.2	16.6	4.0	14.1	3.1	-1.6	-0.7
	November	9.8	-1.4	0.9	0.3	-2.3	-1.9	-19.2	1.4	2.3	1.6	-0.4
CHANGE FROM CORRESPONDING QUARTER OF PREVIOUS YEAR (%)
2017
	November	18.2	26.7	3.9	-5.2	12.1	26.3	21.5	26.5	16.3	16.5	17.8
2018
	November	5.9	16.1	8.8	19.1	44.1	40.0	20.0	6.0	13.8	13.9	13.9
2019
	November	-3.1	-3.6	5.4	6.0	-2.6	1.4	-11.2	15.2	-0.9	-0.9	-2.3

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
	August	76.2	66.0	32.2	10.5	25.6	2.4	3.3	5.9	222.1	219.3	219.1
	November	79.7	60.8	35.0	9.3	26.8	3.0	3.3	5.9	223.9	220.2	221.6
2019
	February	81.2	63.1	34.0	8.0	27.7	2.5	3.2	5.7	225.3	222.3	220.3
	May	73.4	58.8	30.9	9.8	23.9	2.6	3.7	5.7	208.6	217.3	217.4
	August	68.7	60.1	36.0	9.7	26.5	3.1	3.7	6.2	213.9	212.0	214.7
	November	75.6	59.2	36.4	9.6	25.6	2.9	3.0	6.3	218.7	215.2	212.7
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER (%)
2018
	August	7.1	5.9	9.3	4.9	15.4	33.2	-0.9	6.7	7.9	2.0	2.9
	November	4.6	-7.8	8.6	-11.1	4.4	25.7	-	-0.1	0.8	0.4	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	-2.3	-1.3
	August	-6.4	2.2	16.4	-0.9	11.1	19.9	1.6	8.6	2.5	-2.4	-1.2
	November	10.1	-1.5	1.3	-0.5	-3.5	-4.8	-18.1	2.3	2.3	1.5	-0.9
CHANGE FROM CORRESPONDING QUARTER OF PREVIOUS YEAR (%)
2017
	November	18.2	29.9	6.9	-6.0	11.9	22.6	28.4	24.0	17.5	17.7	18.8
2018
	November	6.6	13.6	7.2	14.8	47.5	43.8	19.1	11.2	13.4	13.5	14.3
2019
	November	-5.2	-2.7	4.2	3.1	-4.4	-3.7	-7.9	7.1	-2.3	-2.3	-4.0

- 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
	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	21.1
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	23.6	23.4
	November	8.0	5.2	3.6	1.9	2.2	0.7	0.5	2.5	24.7	24.3	24.4
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS QUARTER (%)
2018
	August	-0.3	12.2	-6.4	2.1	7.5	1.8	-28.9	-8.0	1.6	-	3.0
	November	6.1	-0.1	4.7	10.9	-10.6	-13.6	78.3	16.0	4.3	4.0	1.1
2019
	February	1.4	-12.3	-8.9	-2.3	-10.0	-1.1	-29.6	6.2	-5.7	-0.7	2.1
	May	13.8	4.9	9.1	5.2	-6.0	15.4	15.6	3.9	7.9	4.4	3.7
	August	-1.2	-4.3	24.2	14.6	30.2	2.2	19.7	30.6	8.0	6.3	4.3
	November	7.3	-0.8	-2.9	5.1	14.0	12.6	-25.4	-0.8	2.7	2.7	4.3
CHANGE FROM CORRESPONDING QUARTER OF PREVIOUS YEAR (%)
2017
	November	18.5	-4.9	-25.5	2.5	14.2	49.0	-4.7	34.2	4.9	4.9	9.1
2018
	November	-2.3	48.6	30.6	54.5	7.0	21.3	24.7	-8.9	17.4	17.5	10.2
2019
	November	22.3	-12.7	19.8	23.7	25.5	31.3	-27.4	43.0	13.0	13.1	15.2

* estimate has a relative standard error of 25% to 50% and should be used with caution
- nil or rounded to zero (including null cells)

4 Job vacancies, industry - original

	2018		2019
	August	November	February	May	August	November
	'000	'000	'000	'000	'000	'000
Mining	5.7	6.2	5.8	5.6	6.4	6.2
Manufacturing	10.3	11.4	12.2	11.5	11.6	10.9
Electricity, gas, water and waste services	1.8	1.8	1.9	2.0	2.2	1.8
Construction	16.0	17.3	19.3	15.7	14.9	16.6
Wholesale trade	9.7	10.4	9.4	9.3	10.4	11.8
Retail trade	21.5	24.5	20.8	19.0	22.1	24.8
Accommodation and food services	17.1	15.1	16.7	14.0	14.5	14.5
Transport, postal and warehousing	7.1	6.9	6.9	6.6	6.4	7.1
Information media and telecommunications	2.9	2.9	2.7	2.5	2.7	3.3
Financial and insurance services	11.7	12.0	12.4	11.4	12.1	11.0
Rental, hiring and real estate services	4.1	4.5	4.1	3.8	4.1	2.7
Professional, scientific and technical services	28.9	24.8	28.3	28.6	25.0	23.7
Administrative and support services	46.7	45.5	44.2	42.5	45.8	46.5
Public administration and safety	10.2	12.0	11.1	11.9	13.2	12.9
Education and training	7.3	6.6	7.4	7.1	6.6	7.3
Health care and social assistance	27.1	29.0	29.4	29.8	27.4	28.0
Arts and recreation services	3.2	3.1	3.2	2.4	3.6	2.8
Other services	11.8	11.6	10.0	7.2	9.0	11.4

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Table 2. Job vacancies, private sector, states and territories ('000)

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November 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

November key figures

November 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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