It is also a bit above population growth, so the share of the working-age population that is employed has also risen by around ½ percentage point over the past two years. The job creation has been particularly strong in a range of household services (Graph 3).
Health care has been a stand-out, with annual growth in jobs averaging about 4½ per cent over the past two years. There has also been strong growth in jobs in business services, following a period of weakness a few years ago when exploration activity and pre-construction work in the resources sector were being scaled back.