Manufacturing no longer the biggest employer
Property and business services replaced manufacturing as the biggest employer for the first time in theLinked Employer-Employee Data (LEED) series, Statistics New Zealand said today.
The property andbusiness services industry had 238,200 filled jobs during the September 2006 year.
The manufacturingindustry now has the second largest number of filled jobs (237,000).
The textiles, clothing, footwear andleather manufacturing sub-industry was the key driver of the decline in filled jobs in the manufacturingindustry.
Total filled jobs across all industries was 1,751,450 in the September 2006 year.
This was an increase of1.7 percent from the previous year and 17.4 percent in the five years to September 2006. T
he mining,construction, electricity, gas and water supply industry grouping had the highest filled job growth rate of 7.3percent in the year to September 2006 and 51.8 percent in the five years to September 2006.
The construction industry was the key contributor to the increase in filled jobs within this industry grouping.
Agriculture, forestry and fishing and manufacturing were the only two industries to report a decline in filledjobs (2.0 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively) in the year to September 2006.
The average mean quarterly earnings for all industries was $10,530 during the September 2006 year.
This represents a 4.5 percent increase from the September 2005 year and a 21.7 percent increase from theSeptember 2001 year.
Health and community services had the highest average mean earnings growth of6.9 percent and 29.3 percent during the two reference periods.
The finance and insurance industrycontinued to be the highest paid industry with average mean quarterly earnings of $16,450 during theSeptember 2006 year.
LEED uses information from existing taxation and Statistics NZ sources to provide a range of information onthe dynamics of the New Zealand labour market.
More detailed statistics from LEED are available on theStatistics NZ website www.stats.govt.nz )