SEEK job ads continue to boom

Monday, 9 May 2022

SEEK has released its jobs dashboard for April, which revealed that job ads rose another 2.9% over the month to be up a whopping 22.5% year-on-year and 59.7% higher than April 2019:

Applications per job ad were also down 7.6% month-on-month to be 47.0% lower year-on-year.

The next graphic shows the month-on-month changes across each jurisdiction, with all markets posting rising job ads:

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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.