One Million South Australians In Jobs For First Time
For the first time in South Australia’s history, the total number of people employed has hit more than a million.
It comes as South Australia recorded the equal-lowest unemployment rate of all Australian states in the latest labour force figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics released today.
In the month of December, SA’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.9 per cent – equal with Western Australia, NSW and Queensland, and below the national rate of 4.1 per cent.
The state continues to set new records for the total number of people in jobs, with that total increasing by 8,000 from the previous month – taking it to a record 1,000,200.
This is the first time the state has ever had more than a million people in work in an ABS Labour Force survey, and underlines the strength and stability of the South Australian economy under the Malinauskas Government.
It also underlines that South Australians should not be risking these substantial economic gains with this chaos and dysfunction of the shambolic SA Liberals.
The number of people in full-time work also rose to a new record high, increasing by 15,500 people to 659,800.
The participation rate of 65.1 per cent, an increase of 0.4 percentage points or 7,400 people, is also a new record high that highlights the burgeoning strength of the South Australian economy.
Through 2025, seasonally adjusted employment growth for South Australia was 5.1 per cent, compared with 1.1 per cent nationally.
As put by Peter Malinauskas
We know that as a Labor Government, jobs are the core of everything we do.
And that’s why today’s jobs record – a million South Australians employed for the first time ever, is so incredibly pleasing.
The state is building – over the course of our busy four years in Government the total number of people employed has grown from 900,400 at the time of the 2022 State Election to today’s record of 1,000,200 for the month of December.
That’s almost 100,000 new jobs created.
Nothing creates jobs like jobs – the more people are working, the more people are out spending, generating economic activity and turning the wheels of a vibrant economy.
That helps small businesses and helps create yet more new jobs for South Australians.
Under Labor, the SA economy is clearly heading in the right direction – and it’s equally clear that now is not the time risk a return to the chaos, division and policy disarray of the shambolic SA Liberals.
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