New South Wales has smashed the jobs record with its lowest unemployment rate on record cementing its position as Australia’s job creation capital, according to the latest jobs data from the ABS.
The State’s unemployment rate fell a further 0.4 per cent to 3.9 per cent for January 2019, the lowest since monthly records began in February 1978, with a sum of 47,000 jobs added.
NSW remains well below the national unemployment rate of 5 per cent and well ahead of Victoria at 4.5 per cent.