Source: ABS, Labour Force Survey, Detailed, seasonally adjusted data, November-25, with the exception of the youth unemployment rate which are 12MA of original estimates

2 days ago · The contribution of the increase in labour force participation is calculated as the change in the labour force participation rate between Q3 2025 and Q3 2024 times one minus the average …

5 days ago · The recent decline in job growth is broad based across industries, suggesting a widespread softening of labor demand. For the labor force, recent declines are driven by changes in immigration …

In 2023, Australia's labour force was 14.2 million, with 1.4 million trade union members, an average annual income of $72,753, 3.8% unemployment and 6.4% underemployment. [1] Australian labour …

The WPI measures changes in the price of labour, unaffected by compositional shifts in the labour force, hours worked or employee characteristics

In the United Kingdom, a rising unemployment rate was partly balanced by increasing labour force participation, leaving the employment rate largely unchanged between Q3 2024 and Q3 2025.

The Australian economy is dominated by its service sector, which in 2017 comprised 62.7% of the GDP and employed 78.8% of the labour force. [6] At the height of the mining boom in 2009–10, the total …