Employment Dashboard September 2023

Job ads continue to moderate, declining 1.8% in September, yet are 17.1% higher than September 2019. Applications per job ad continue to rise, but the rate has slowed. This may be an indication that application activity is levelling out after months of constant growth.

Job ads still remain higher than pre-COVID levels, demonstrating the truly exceptional boom era of 2022. What we are seeing now is a slow moderation of that extremely high demand.

Source: SEEK Employment Index.

Data is seasonally adjusted unless otherwise indicated.

Disclaimer

The data should be regarded as standalone information and should not be aggregated with any other information.The data is given in summary form and whilst care has been taken in its preparation, SEEK makes no representations about its completeness or accuracy. SEEK expressly bears no responsibility or liability for any reliance placed on the data, or from the use of the data.

Note: the SEEK Employment Index (SEI) may differ to the job ad count on SEEK’s website due to a number of factors including: 1) seasonal adjusments applied to the SEI; 2) the exclusion of duplicated job ads from the SEI; 3) the exclusion of Company Listings (included under Company Profiles) from the SEI.