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Unemployment at 4.9 per cent in June 2021 (ABS)
15 July 2021
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 4.9 per cent in June 2021, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Bjorn Jarvis, head of labour statistics at the ABS, said June saw the eighth consecutive monthly fall in the unemployment rate.
“The unemployment rate fell to 4.9 per cent in June. This was 0.4 percentage points below March2020 (5.3 per cent) and the lowest it has been since December 2010. The declining unemployment rate continues to coincide with employers reporting high levels of job vacancies and difficulties in finding suitable people for them,“ Mr Jarvis said.
“The number of unemployed people fell by 22,000 in June, down to 679,000. This was around325,000 people below the peak of 1 million unemployed people in July 2020.”
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