Australia employment rose 75.6k in May, well above expectation of 16.5k. Full time jobs grew 61.7k while part-time jobs grew 14.3k.
Unemployment rate dropped from 3.7% to 3.6%, below expectation of 3.7%. Participation rate rose from 66.7% to 66.9%. Monthly hours worked dropped -1.8% mom. Employment-to-population ratio rose 0.2% to 64.5%, a record high.
Bjorn Jarvis, ABS head of labour statistics, said: “Looking over the past two months, the employment increases average out to around 36,000 extra employed people each month. This is still around the average over the past year of 39,000 people a month.”
“Just before the start of the pandemic almost 13 million people were employed in Australia. In May 2023, this had risen to just over 14 million people.”
