Contains estimates of employed and unemployed persons classified by sex, full-time/part-time status, states and territories and some age groups; and persons not in the labour force.

Key points

Trend estimates (monthly change):

• Employment increased to 11,747,200.
• Unemployment decreased to 756,300.
• Unemployment rate decreased less than 0.1 pts to 6.0%.
• Participation rate remained steady at 64.8%.
• Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 2.5 million hours to 1,634.1 million hours from a revised April 2015 estimate

Seasonally adjusted estimates (monthly change):

• Employment increased 42,000 to 11,759,600. Full-time employment increased 14,700 to 8,128,600 and part-time employment increased 27,300 to 3,630,900.
• Unemployment decreased 22,000 to 745,200. The number of unemployed persons looking for full-time work decreased 23,500 to 514,500 and the number of unemployed persons only looking for part-time work increased 1,500 to 230,800.
• Unemployment rate decreased 0.2 pts to 6.0%, based on unrounded estimates.
• Participation rate remained steady at 64.7% from a revised April 2015 estimate.
• Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 2.2 million hours (0.1%) to 1,631.8 million hours from a revised April 2015 estimate.

Labour underutilisation (quaterly change):

• Trend estimates: The labour force underutilisation rate decreased 0.1 pts to 14.7%.
• Seasonally adjusted estimates: The labour force underutilisation rate decreased 0.4 pts to 14.5%. The male labour force underutilisation rate decreased 0.4 pts to 12.5%. The female labour force underutilisation rate decreased 0.4 pts to 16.7