Roy Morgan unemployment jumps to 10.3% in May

Thursday 6 June 2019

The latest Roy Morgan Research (RMR) unemployment estimate for May jumped 1.4% to 10.3%, and was also down 0.5% year-on-year:

Labour underutilisation also rose to 19.5%.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.