The State Government’s efforts to grow jobs has resulted in 3900 Queenslanders finding work in June, according to Deputy Premier Jackie Trad.
On Thursday, Ms Trad said the latest ABS Labour Force figures backed her claim.
“Today’s data shows that in the past month we have created another 3900 jobs across our state,” Ms Trad said.
“The ABS confirms this with our jobs growth over the year sitting at 3 per cent, above our Budget forecast of 2.75 per cent.
“The trend unemployment rate is stable at 6.1 per cent, while the seasonally adjusted rate fell to 5.9 per cent, down 0.3 per cent from last month.”
Ms Trad said the results were reflected in NAB’s Quarterly Business Survey results, also released on Thursday.
“They show that Queensland has the equal best business conditions in the country and the second highest business confidence,” she said.
“These great results come off the back of our recent infrastructure and jobs focused State Budget.”
Jobs growth in Queensland is not reflected in the South Burnett, where the latest Small Area Labour Markets data (March 2018) puts the region’s unemployment rate at 8.7 per cent.
Historical SALM data shows this figure has not altered substantially in the past six years, dipping to a low of 7.4 per cent in March 2012 and rising to a high of 10.7 per cent in March 2015.
They do, however, show that the region’s unemployment rate dropped by 0.4 per cent in the past year, with 73 people either finding employment or abandoning the labour market.
At the same time, the South Burnett’s population expanded by an average 113 people.
- External link: Small Area Labour Markets
