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    Payroll jobs rose 0.6% to mid-March, WA the strongest growth

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    Payroll jobs rose 0.6% in the month to mid-March 2023, following a larger seasonal rise of 2.9% over the month to mid-February, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

    Bjorn Jarvis, ABS head of labour statistics, says: “The pace of payroll jobs growth in early 2023 was similar to what we saw in early 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “The middle of March 2023 marks three years since the start of the pandemic and is the first March without impacts from pandemic-related business disruptions. Payroll jobs now sit 10.5% higher than pre-pandemic levels.”

    Western Australia had the strongest payroll jobs growth since start of the pandemic, to 13.4%. 

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