Job listings post remarkable recovery

Thursday, 11 February 2021

Callam Pickering, economist at global jobs site Indeed has updated his job postings series, which tracks the change in job listings since the COVID-19 pandemic hit early last year.

As shown in the next chart, Australian job postings have staged a remarkable recovery to be 9.7% (Victoria) and 13.6% (rest of Australia) higher than the same time last year:

Job postings are higher across every state and territory in Australia, led by WA and NT:

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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.