Business employment data: June 2025 quarter – information release
9 September 2025
Business employment data includes filled jobs and gross earnings, with breakdowns by industry, sex, age, region, and territorial authority area, using a combination of data from two different Inland Revenue sources: the employer monthly schedule (EMS) and payday filing. Both are associated with PAYE (pay as you earn) tax data.
Key facts
Total actual filled jobs in the June 2025 quarter were 2.26 million.
In the June 2025 quarter (compared with the March 2025 quarter):
- total seasonally adjusted filled jobs were down 0.5 percent (10,560 jobs).
For the year ended June 2025 (compared with the year ended June 2024):
- total gross earnings were up 1.5 percent ($2.6 billion).
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