{"id":501900,"date":"2026-06-30T01:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501900\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T01:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:02:15","slug":"economy-starts-to-pick-up-momentum-as-number-of-filled-jobs-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/501900\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy starts to pick up momentum as number of filled jobs rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worst seems to be over when it comes to the job market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Filled jobs rose 0.3% in May \u2014an extra 2,515 roles\u2014 with strong gains in the service and public sectors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The annual lift of 0.7% was the fastest in over two years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Independent economist Cameron Bagrie told Mike Hosking in terms of the economy, it\u2019s as if we\u2019re on State Highway 1, travelling around 60kp\/h when the speed limit is 100kp\/h.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says we have forward propulsion, but we\u2019re not knocking the ball out of the park in regards to speed. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The worst seems to be over when it comes to the job market.\u00a0 Filled jobs rose 0.3% in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,250583,3914,219,250584,3112,38635,232,111,139,69,4576],"class_list":["post-501900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cameronbagrie","tag-economist","tag-economy","tag-filledjobs","tag-job","tag-jobmarket","tag-jobs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}