Labour Market Data Dashboard

Victoria Data current as at 21 September 2022

Refer to source notes for data reference periods
Labour market summary table
Employed persons Unemployed persons Unemployment rate Participation rate Youth unemployment rate
This Labour Market Data Dashboard provides a summary
Aug-22 Mar-20 Change Aug-22 Mar-20 Change Aug-22 Mar-20 Aug-22 Mar-20 Aug-22 Mar-20 of the key indicators for the Victorian labour market.
('000) ('000) (%) ('000) ('000) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) Dashboards for Australia and Employment Regions are
also available.
Victoria 3,525.2 3,443.5 2.4 134.0 187.5 -28.5 3.7 5.2 67.0 66.4 9.9 10.7

Australia 13,592.1 13,002.2 4.5 487.7 719.4 -32.2 3.5 5.2 66.6 65.9 8.4 11.6

Source: ABS, Labour Force Survey, Aug-22

Employed persons Job seeker income support payments* Online job advertisements
3,700 14,000 90,000
450,000
Employed persons ('000)

Online job advertisements

13,500 80,000 Number of job ads
3,500 13,000 400,000 70,000
3,300 12,500 350,000 60,000 85,430
300,000 50,000
12,000 Change over the month
3,100 250,000 40,000
11,500
11,000
200,000 30,000 8.4%
2,900 150,000 20,000
10,500 100,000 10,000 (or 6,610 job advertisements)
2,700 10,000 50,000 0
Change since March-20
0
199.6%

Apr-20

Oct-20

Apr-21

Oct-21

Apr-22
Aug-20
Sep-20

Nov-20
Dec-20

Aug-21
Sep-21

Nov-21
Dec-21

Aug-22
Jul-20

Jul-21

Jul-22
Jun-20

Jan-21

Jun-21

Jan-22

Jun-22
Mar-20

Feb-21
Mar-21

Feb-22
Mar-22
May-20

May-21

May-22
(or 56,920 job advertisements)
Victoria (seasonally adjusted - LHS) Australia (seasonally adjusted - RHS) Victoria

Source: ABS, Labour Force Survey, Aug-22 Source: National Skills Commission, Internet Vacancy Index, seasonally adjusted data, Aug-22

Largest employing industries Change in job seeker income support payments Online job advertisements by occupation
Victoria Australia
14.7% Sales Assistants (General) 4,643
Health Care and Social Assistance
13.1% Total payments - March 2020 193,586 886,213
General Clerks 4,043
Professional, Scientific and Technical 10.5%
Services 9.7% Waiters 3,408
9.5% Total payments - August 2022 186,502 853,036
Retail Trade Registered Nurses 2,540
10.0%
9.3% Software and Applications Programmers 2,273
Construction
9.3% Change (Mar 2020 to Aug 2022) -7,084 -33,177
Kitchenhands 1,788
Education and Training 8.7%
8.8% Advertising and Sales Managers 1,780
Change (Mar 2020 to Aug 2022) (%) -4% -4%
Bar Attendants and Baristas 1,502
Aug-22 Feb-20

Source: ABS, Labour Force Survey, Detailed, four quarter average data, Aug-22 quarter Source: National Skills Commission, Internet Vacancy Index, seasonally adjusted data, Aug-22

Unemployment rate % of 15-64 year olds** on job seeker income support payments Online jobs advertisements by skill level
30,000 (33%)

Online job advertisements

8.0 14.0% (30%)
Unemployment rate (%)

7.0 11.7% 25,000

12.0%
20,000
6.0
10.0% 15,000 (13%) (14%)
5.0 (10%)
8.0% 6.8% 6.5% 10,000
4.0 5.7%
6.0% 5.0% 4.9% 5.1% 5,000
3.0 4.4%
4.0% 0
2.0 2.4% Skill Level 1 - Skill Level 2 - Skill Level 3 - Skill Level 4 - Skill Level 5 -
2.0% Bachelor degree Advanced Certificate III or Certificate II or III Certificate I or
or higher Diploma or IV secondary
0.0%
Diploma education
NT TAS SA QLD WA NSW VIC ACT AUS
Victoria (seasonally adjusted) Australia (seasonally adjusted)
Source: National Skills Commission, Internet Vacancy Index, seasonally adjusted data, Aug-22
Source: Department of Social Services, JobSeeker and Youth Allowance (other) payment recipients,
Source: ABS, Labour Force Survey, Aug-22 data.gov.au, Aug-22; ABS, Estimated Resident Population (ERP), Jun-21

Notes: Data in the labour market summary table are seasonally adjusted estimates, except for the youth unemployment rate which is a 12-month average of original estimates. * With the cessation of jobactive and the commencement of Workforce Australia, caseload data is temporarily unavailable. Department of Social Services (DSS) data on job seeker income support
payments has been included instead. Note that not everyone in receipt of income support is on the caseload. **DSS job seeker payments include those who are in receipt of either JobSeeker (aged 22 and over but under the Age Pension qualifying age) or Youth Allowance (other) payments (those aged 16 to 21). Data are published on data.gov.au. ** ERP estimates are
only available by standard 5 year age groups. For further information about the data in this dashboard, refer to the Employment Region Labour Market Dashboards data sources and quality document on labourmarketinsights.gov.au. For enquiries related to this dashboard, contact EmploymentPathwaysAnalysis@skillscommission.gov.au.