Job postings show tightening labour market

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Callam Pickering, economist at global jobs site Indeed, has updated his job postings series to 18 June, which shows that job postings nationally were tracking 45.5% ahead of their level on 1 February last year:

Job postings

Job postings way above pre-COVID levels.

Victorian job postings were tracking 37.6% above their level on February 1 last year, compared with 49.1% for the rest of Australia.

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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.