There are nearly half a million job vacancies in Australia, an increase of more than 50,000 last month.
This is more than double the vacancies of February 2020, before the pandemic.
Bjorn Jarvis, head of Labor Statistics at ABS, said: “The number of job vacancies increased by 14% over the three months to May 2022, to almost half a million jobs. reflect the growing demand for workers, especially in customer roles, with companies continuing to face disruptions in their operations, as well as labor shortages. ”
In addition to a higher number of vacancies, the percentage of companies declaring at least one vacancy also increased.
“The large growth in vacancies due to the pandemic has coincided with a decrease in the number of unemployed people,” Jarvis said.
As a result, there were almost the same number of unemployed and vacancies in May 2022 (1.1 people unemployed per vacancy), compared to three times as many people before the start of the pandemic “.