{"id":86473,"date":"2025-08-22T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86473\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:00:14","slug":"number-of-people-at-work-rises-by-2-3-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/86473\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of people at work rises by 2.3% in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the estimated number of people in employment in the second quarter of this year stood at 2,818,100, an increase of 2.3% compared with the same time a year ago.<\/p>\n

The CSO said the 2.3% rise in the number of people in employment was equivalent to 63,900 more people working than a year ago.<\/p>\n

Today’s figures show that the employment rate for people aged between 15 and 64 years of age moved up to 74.7% in the second quarter of this year from 74.4% in the second quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n

They also reveal that the age group with the highest employment rate was the 35-44 years age group, with an employment rate of 85.6%, up from 84.7% recorded a year previously.<\/p>\n

The lowest employment rate by age was observed in the 15-19 year old cohort at 25.9%, the CSO added.<\/p>\n

The largest increase in employment by economic sector was in the Construction sector, which rose by 29,600 people (18.4%), while the biggest decrease in employment was in the Information & Communication sector, which fell by 7,700 people (4.1%).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the number of people who were unemployed in the three months from April to May stood at 140,800, with an associated unemployment rate of 4.8%.<\/p>\n

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The CSO said there were 31,800 people in long-term unemployment – unemployed for 12 months or longer – in the second quarter, 4,900 more people than the same time last year. The corresponding rate of long-term unemployment was 1.1%, up from 0.9% a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Today’s figures also reveal that the estimated labour market participation rate in the second quarter of 2025 was 66.4%, up from 66% during the same three month period in 2024.<\/p>\n

The estimated Labour Force – the sum of all people aged 15-89 years who were either employed or unemployed – stood at 2,958,900 in the second quarter, an increase of 2.5%, or 73,500 people, from the second quarter of 2024, the CSO added. <\/p>\n

The CSO also said that the estimated total number of hours worked in the second quarter of 2 2025 was 88.9 million hours per week, an increase of 1.6 million hours on the same time last year.<\/p>\n

It noted that the change in hours worked varied across the different economic sectors.<\/p>\n

The Construction sector saw an additional one million hours worked, while the biggest sectoral decreases in hours worked were in the Accommodation & Food Service Activities and the Information & Communication sectors, which were each down 300,000 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the estimated number of people in employment in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-86473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86473","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=86473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}