Bedpan jobs boom delivers bedpan economy

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) yesterday released its Labour Account Australia, Quarterly Experimental Estimates for the September quarter, which revealed that filled jobs in the Health care and social assistance industry increased by 8.2% the year to September 2019, more than any other industry.

The Health care and social assistance industry was also the nation’s biggest employer, accounting for 13.0% of all Australian jobs.

The below charts show the explosive growth in Health care and social assistance jobs over the past 25 years:

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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.