The rise and rise of the secondary job

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The Guardian’s Greg Jericho has completed some excellent analysis of this week’s quarterly experimental employment data from the ABS, which shows that there are actually more than there are people employed because a record 6% of earners work multiple jobs:

In the June quarter this year there were 14.53m jobs available in Australia. Of these, 14.28m were filled by a worker, and they were being done by 13.3m people…

In June there were 797,400 people working multiple jobs – a record 6% of employees.

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About the author
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.