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Job vacancies 57 per cent higher than pre-COVID level: Australia
Job vacancies in Australia in May 2021 were 57 per cent higher than February 2020, prior to the start of the pandemic, according to new seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Bjorn Jarvis, head of Labour Statistics at the ABS, said that job vacancies continued to increase and were up by 23 per cent over the quarter.
“There were around 362,000 job vacancies in May 2021, which was higher than we have ever seen in Australia. This was 69,000 more than February 2021 and 132,000 more than last February,” Mr Jarvis said.
In May 2021, 22 per cent of businesses reported at least one vacancy, double the level in February 2020 (11 per cent).
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