Vic: Victoria leads country in jobs growth

AAP General News (Australia)
02-14-2008
Vic: Victoria leads country in jobs growth

Victoria's riding high on a jobs bonanza .. with more new jobs created in the past
year than any other state.

Bureau of Stats figures show Victorian employment grew by 3.5 per cent last year ..

eclipsing the national average of 2.7 per cent.

Only resource rich Western Australia out-performed Victoria on a percentage basis.

Treasurer JOHN LENDERS says seven-thousand-500 extra jobs were created in January ..

taking the total number of new jobs for the last 12 months to 90-thousand-400.

That's the largest increase of any state.

At the same time .. unemployment dropped from 4.9 per cent a year ago .. to 4.5 per cent.

Mr LENDERS says Victoria's participation rate was consistently high .. recording 65.4
per cent for January.

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KEYWORD: JOBS VIC (MELBOURNE)

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