{"id":567075,"date":"2026-03-27T04:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:41:19","slug":"care-workers-drive-aussie-jobs-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567075\/","title":{"rendered":"Care workers drive Aussie jobs boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-market sector, which comprises primarily government-funded jobs in the public service, healthcare, social assistance, and education industries, has accounted for 67% of the growth in filled jobs since the first quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Non-market-jobs.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"532\" alt=\"Filled jobs by sector\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart by Alex Joiner at IFM Investors<\/p>\n<p>This came despite the non-market sector comprising less than one-third of the total jobs in the economy:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Market-vs-non-market-job-share.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"633\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Labour force composition\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The non-market sector, which comprises primarily government-funded jobs in the public service, healthcare, social assistance, and education industries,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-567075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}