Australian Bureau of Statistics
Labour-market context, at the grain the source supports.
Use national and industry-level series to understand the wider economy. They are context—not six-digit occupation salaries, vacancies or migration outcomes.
- Job vacancies
- 329.5K2026-Q2 · national
- Average weekly earnings
- $2,0842026-S1 · all industries
- Annual wage growth
- 3.2%2026-Q2 · national WPI
Published observations
National job vacancies
Seasonally adjusted job vacancies across private and public sectors, all industries. Source values are scaled to persons in the processed dataset.
26 quarterly national observations are shown.
Published observations
Average weekly earnings
Full-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings for persons, private and public sectors, all industries, seasonally adjusted.
9 national half-yearly observations are shown.
Published observations
Wage Price Index — annual movement
Percentage change from the corresponding quarter of the previous year for total hourly rates excluding bonuses, all industries and sectors, seasonally adjusted.
26 quarterly annual-change observations are shown.
Published observations
Labour underutilisation
National seasonally adjusted rates for persons of total age: unemployment, underemployment and combined underutilisation.
237 monthly rate observations across three measures are shown.
Published observations
Labour Account — jobs and employed persons
National, total-all-industries Labour Account measures. Jobs and employed persons differ because a person may hold more than one job.
10 annual Labour Account observations are shown.
Useful context, careful limits.
These measures help describe national time-series and all-industry conditions. The processed source does not contain occupation-level employment counts, six-digit occupation salaries or occupation-specific migrant arrivals and departures.